SHRI W. B. METRE, PADMABHUSHAN

 SHRI W. B. METRE

Padmabhushan Shri Wamanrao Bapuji Metre 
14 Feb1906 - 21 Nov 1970

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 .                     Wamanrao (DADA) Bapuji Metre (14 February 1906 – 21 November 1970) was the doyen of Indian petroleum geologists. He was awarded India’s third-highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 1968 for his outstanding contribution to petroleum exploration and development in India, and for his significant role in the growth of the country’s oil industry.

            

            Within the oil company and the organization, Shri Wamanrao Bapuji Metre was known as “Dādā.” Among his family members and relatives in his native place, he was known as “Annasaheb.”

             Padma Bhushan awardee Wamanrao Bapuji Metre was originally a resident of Kalamb, and his family continues to live there. Kalamb is located in Yavatmal district, Maharashtra (PIN 445401). It is the taluka headquarters, situated 21 kilometres from the district headquarters Yavatmal on the Nagpur road, and 130 kilometres from Nagpur on the Yavatmal road.

                                   In the same village of Kalamb, Wamanrao Bapuji Metre had completed his education up to Class VII at the Zilla Parishad School, Kalamb.

           With deep regret, the death of Shri W. B. Metre, formerly of the Assam Oil Company and one of India’s foremost petroleum scientists, who passed away in New Delhi on 21 November 1970 at the age of 64.

                               Shri Metre joined the Assam Oil Company in 1930 as a geo-logist after obtaining his diploma in Geology from the School of Mines and Applied Geology, Dhanbad. He worked in Digboi oilfield, and at Bandersulia. Masimpur and Patharia explora-tion sites from 1930-37. After that he did geological mapping and other exploration work in the Garo Hills, the Surma Valley and the Arakan Coast. Shri Metre was then engaged in a review of geological investigations and oil prospects of Assam and elsewhere in the BOC's London Office from 1039.41. He became the Senior Geologist of the company in 1953 and continued in that capacity in Digboi until his posting to Shil-long as Representative of The Burmah Oil Group of Companies in 1960. He was then transferred to Delhi as the Senior Technical Adviser in late 1960.

                          Shri Metre was associated with the Board of Oil India Limited as a Director since 1959. He was appointed Member (part-time) of the Oil and Natural Gas Com-mission in November, 1967.

                   Shri Metre represented India at several international confer-ences concerned with the oil industry, geology and explora-tion. He attended all the four ECAFE symposia on oil and natural gas. He was leader of the Indian delegation to ECAFE symposium held in Teheran in 1962.

                       Shri Metre retired from the active service of the Burmah Group in late 1965, but continued as a part-time Director on the Board of Oil India till last Sep-tember. He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 1967 for his services to the oil industry. A past President of the Indian Science Congress (Geology section), he was elected President of the Mining, Geologi-cal and Metallurgical Institute of India in April 1970.

Dr. Sau. Madhuri Manik Keote 
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