Girish Kamal is currently working as Custodian (Rotating Equipment) with the Integration Value Assurance (IVA) Division of PETRONAS Upstream in Kuala Lumpur. He has more than 35 years of extensive and diversified experience in the Oil and Gas Industry in the fields of rotating equipment management for onshore and offshore applications including specifications, design approvals, witness testing, inspection, commissioning, installation, maintenance, and technical services. Prior to joining PETRONAS, he worked with Dolphin Energy Gas Plant in Qatar as Head of Machinery Reliability, with PETRONAS Carigali in Peninsular Malaysia Office as Unit Head for the Condition Based Maintenance department, with Engineers India Limited as Deputy Manager (Rotating Equipment) and with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited in India as Executive Mechanical Engineer.
He holds a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA qualification. He is also a Certified Reliability Professional. Girish has authored and presented many technical papers on Rotating Machinery Condition Monitoring and Reliability improvements in number of International and Regional Conferences including ROTATE-ME, ME RoTIC, Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia (TPS)-Houston, Middle East Chapter-METS as well as the Asian Chapter-ATPS. He also serves as a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) member for the Asia Turbomachinery & Pump Symposium (ATPS) & as an Executive Committee Leader for ME RoTIC.