Mr.T.S.Ramachandran (56) has been appointed as the Director (Technical) of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) by the Government of India. He assumed charge today (26.07.2011).

An Honours graduate in Electrical Engineering from University of Calicut, Mr.T.S Ramachandran after a three year stint in private sector, joined M/s Indian Oil Corporation Ltd in 1980 in Projects Department at Gujarat Refinery. In a career spanning over three decades, he has so far worked at Refineries Headquarters at New Delhi and refineries at Gujarat, Gauhati and Mathura in various capacities across different functions. During last ten years, he had been associated with some of the prestigious projects of IOCL like DHDT and MSQ upgradation at Mathura and the world scale Naphtha cracker project at Panipat, that was completed in a record 46 months, equaling the global bench marks for similar complex projects.

An avid reader, Mr.T.S Ramachandran has attended advanced management programmes conducted by IndianOil Institute of Petroleum Management (IIPM) as also Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad.

Mr.Ramachandran is married and has a daughter.

Prior to this appointment, he was General Manager (Projects), IOC Refinery Headquarters, at New Delhi.