Author Tata L.N. Murthy is an oil and gas professional with 21 years of experience in oil and gas upstream deepwater, shallow water and onshore fields. He has gained knowledge and qualifications in eight subject areas of oil and gas operations (chemistry, inspection, corrosion, IT, HSE, operations, petroleum and procurement and contracts). Murthy has published three books on personality development and 28 papers (single and self-authored) in 17 subject areas (corrosion, environment, quality, projects, maintenance, operations, finance, asset integrity management, asset management, security, legal and statutory, procurement and contracts, inspection, chemistry, safety, trainings and HR) of oil and gas asset management, which includes a paper on legal and statutory compliance for commencing oil and gas production in the March/April 2018 issue of OILMAN Magazine.