IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim commented in his opening words that the market must be picking up, judging by the greater numbers than last year and the happy faces all around… or was that in anticipation of the sumptuous feast to come, he quipped.
Mehrotra himself informed that the group had now moved its main operational office to Dubai, home of the newly rebranded Foresight Offshore Drilling division, under son-in-law and group director Utsav Seth, while John Wishart, formerly head of LR Energy, had taken over as group coo based at Foresight House in London.
Foresight currently owns six drilling platforms - including three brand new Le Tourneau Super 116e jack-up rigs, two of which are already at work off India – as well as two crude oil tankers, a number it may now be looking to increase with secondhand purchases.
On the corporate social responsibility front, Mehrotra announced that Foresight would be taking part in a new Indian public private project to help cleanse the River Ganges, the news greeted with a spontaneous round of applause.
It is understood the effort will involve bioremediation and landscaping of the riverbank around Mehrotra’s home city of Kanpur, one of the most polluted stretches of the Ganges, with Indian High Commission HE YK Sinha at pains to point out that this was a Herculean task for which Mehrotra himself had volunteered rather than being directed to do so by the Indian government.
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