Waman Bapuji Meter
Waman Bapuji Meter , often also WB Meter , (born February 14, 1906 in Kalamb , Maharashtra , † November 21, 1970 ) was an Indian petroleum geologist and micropaleontologist . He was a pioneer of oil exploration in India and was considered the doyen of oil geologists in India.
Life
After graduating from the Indian School of Mines in Dhapad in 1930 (he was a first-year student at the school founded in 1926), he was a geologist at the Assam Oil Company (AOC) in Digboi (where oil fields were discovered in 1889), a daughter the Burmah Oil Company (BOC). He prospected for them not only in Assam , but also, for example, in Pakistan. In 1953 he became chief geologist. In the same year he found the first significant oil wells after India's independence in Nahorkatiya. In 1956, Moran was added as another oil field in northeast India. As a result, the Indian government also got into the oil business and Oil India (OIL) was founded in 1959, two thirds of which was owned by AOC / BOC and one third by the state (and from 1981 entirely state-owned). Meter was on the Board of Directors of Oil India. In 1965 he retired from Burmah Oil, but remained in an advisory capacity.
In 1961 he was President of the Geology Section at the Indian Science Congress. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (1948) and a member of the Indian National Science Academy (1956). In 1968 he received the Padma Bhushan .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meter, Waman Bapuji |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalamb |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1970 |