Sudhansu Adhikari.

Sudhansu Adhikari

India Country Manager

Sudhansu has 28 years managerial and technical experience in exploration, project initiation, and project execution, in coal and coal bed methane (CBM) sectors in India. He spent 22 years of his professional career as a geologist and senior geologist in the Geological Survey of India mostly in exploration for coal in Sohagpur basin in Central India. He was among the first to discover metallurgical coal in this part of India.

Sudhansu carried out coal exploration in the Bokaro and Karanpura basins in eastern India and during his tenure in Sohagpur, he conducted many study tours of basins in the United States including Black Warrior, San Juan and Powder River. In 2001 he joined Reliance India (RIL) as the Chief Geologist and head of exploration for RIL’s CBM blocks in Sohagpur, Sonhat and was instrumental in the development of the Sohagpur a highly producing CBM basin in India. Sudhansu joined Arrow Energy India in January 2007 to open the company’s office in New Delhi. As India Country Manager, he has successfully completed drilling programs in the company’s three Indian CBM blocks. Sudhansu has a M.SC. in Geology from Calcutta University.