Satish Lele satish.lele@gmail.com

I work as a team member that conduct Due Diligence feasibility studies for companies intending to establish plantations of the following crops:

• Jatropha Curcas
• Pongamia Pinnata
• Castor

My feasibility studies can be used to evaluate the viability of proposed plantations and BioDiesel Plants, for the purposes of capital budgeting.
Clients who engage my services conduct entire Due Diligence process, including Marketing Plan, Legal Details, Financial Due Diligence, Cash Flow Projections and the assumptions underlying them and Technical Plan. I will provide them with a comprehensive Technical Plan that outlines:

• Suitability of land, availability of ground water, availability of labor force around the area, land leases, special arrangements like roads, housing etc.

• Suitability of the proposed crop
• Crop specific plantation management techniques

• Road map for Nursery, land clearing , layout of trees, irrigation, fertilizing, internal roads and civil works, plantation of seedlings, pruning of trees, harvesting etc. Financial analysis of all these activities

• Description of manufacturing processes of straight vegetable oil (SVO) and BioDiesel
• Need for know-how, technological transfer and licensing required
• Suppliers of equipment, services (including offers)
• Requirement of Manpower (skilled and unskilled), Vehicles
• Requirement of Infrastructure (power, water, etc.)
• BioDiesel product cost and quality, comparison with pricing of Diesel
• Raw materials: sources, cost and quality
• Relations with suppliers and support industries
• Import restrictions or licensing (where applicable)
• Plant sites, technical specification
• Environmental issues and how they are addressed
• Integration of new operations into existing ones

The feasibility studies that I conduct are tailor made to the needs of every client. Should you have specific requirements I would be pleased to discuss these with you to ensure that you receive maximum value from the study conducted.
With my experience of Last Five Years in this line, I look forward to the opportunity of working with you in reaching optimum goals for your bio energy related projects.

Appointed as Consultant by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance Limited, 71 Frenchchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS, (A member of Lloyds Register Group) to provide technical services for their assignments.

I was a team member for Project Feasibility Study on the “Development of Jatropha curcas oil for bio-energy in rural areas” in remote areas like Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) and Sulawesi Tengah of Indonesia, along the entire value-chain of investment, production, processing, marketing and utilization.

I have prepared a project report for 1,000 hectares on contract farming basis for a party in Fiji. It will now be submitted to World Bank for loan.

I am doing Feasibility Study of 20,000 hectares land for a company in Singapore.