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Mr R Rajamani

Former Managing Director, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited | 57 Years of Industry Leadership

R Rajamani brings an extraordinary 57 years of refining and petrochemicals leadership to PETRONOVA’s Leadership Advisory Board, crowned by his tenure as Managing Director of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) — a flagship refining and petrochemicals complex on India’s west coast and one of the country’s most significant energy enterprises.

Over the course of his career, Rajamani built a formidable reputation for plant reliability and operational excellence, having guided more than two dozen major plant troubleshooting assignments and an equally deep portfolio of Technical Services Agreements, alongside substantial work in Process Safety and HAZOP review, reliability and integrity studies, margin improvement and business planning. His leadership blended rigorous technical judgement with commercial acumen, consistently translating complex refinery challenges into measurable operational and financial gains.

At PETRONOVA, Rajamani’s decades of refinery leadership strengthen the firm’s ability to engage credibly with operating leadership worldwide, grounding every advisory engagement in the realities of running world-class refining assets.

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