Uttam Saha

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd

Maharatna ONGC is the largest producer of crude oil and natural gas in India, contributing around 70 per cent of Indian domestic production. The crude oil is the raw material used by downstream companies like IOC, BPCL, HPCL to produce petroleum products like Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, Cooking Gas-LPG. ONGC is India's Top Energy Company and ranks 17th among global energy majors (Platts). It is the only Indian company to figure in Fortune's ‘Most Admired Energy Companies' list. ONGC ranks 17th in ‘Oil and Gas operations' and 220th overall in Forbes Global 2000. Acclaimed for its Corporate Governance practices, Transparency International has ranked ONGC 26th among the biggest publicly traded global giants. It is most valued public enterprise in India, and one of the highest profit-making and dividend-paying. ONGC has a unique distinction of being a company with in-house service capabilities in all areas of Exploration and Production of oil & gas and related oil-field services. Winner of the Best Employer award, a dedicated team of over 33,500 professionals toil round the clock in challenging locations. ONGC is an integrated energy company with interests in upstream, midstream and downstream sector of the hydrocarbon value chain, LNG, Power generation, petrochemicals and Value Added Products. ONGC's wholly-owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is the biggest Indian multinational in the energy space, participating in 36 oil and gas properties in 17 countries. ONGC's subsidiary Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) is a Schedule ‘A' Miniratna, with a single-location refining capacity of 15 million tons per annum.