Oil and Gas Companies in India

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is a Government of India owned oil and gas company which is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. BPCL started as Burmah-Shell Refineries Ltd in 1952, which later changed to Bharat Refineries Ltd(BRL) and subsequently to Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Presently, BPCL operates the following refineries, ...

Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Ltd (HOEC) was incorporated in 1983 for taking up exploration and production (E&P) activities inter-alia by Late Mr H T Parekh. HOEC was the first private company in India to enter into field of oil and gas exploration. HOEC’s operational activities commenced in 1991 with the Government of India announcing ...

Pursuant to the directive of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, GAIL had undertaken a study to supply natural gas to the automobile, industrial, commercial and domestic consumers in the cities of Agra and Lucknow to accomplish improvement of its ambient air quality. Joint Venture (JV) agreement was signed between GAIL (India) Ltd and Indian ...

Incorporated in 1998, IGL took over Delhi City Gas Distribution Project in 1999 from GAIL (India) Ltd (Formerly Gas Authority of India Ltd). The project was started to lay the network for the distribution of natural gas in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to consumers in the domestic, transport, and commercial sectors. With the backing of...

Essar Oil is a fully integrated oil & gas company of international scale with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from exploration & production to refining and oil retail. Essar Oil has a portfolio of onshore and offshore oil & gas blocks with about 1.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves & resources. Essar Oil owns...

Incepted in 1980, Gujarat Gas Co Ltd (GGCL) has since evolved to become one of India’s largest players in distribution of natural gas. The company serves the entire range of the retail end of the gas value chain - residential, industrial, commercial and compressed natural gas (CNG). Gujarat Gas has its corporate headquarters in Ahmedabad a...

GAIL (India) Ltd was incorporated in August 1984 as a central public sector undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG). The company was initially given the responsibility of construction, operation and maintenance of the Hazira-Vijaypur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline project. It was one of the largest cross-country natura...

Petronet LNG Ltd, one of the fastest growing world-class companies in the Indian energy sector, has set up the country's first LNG receiving and regasification terminal at Dahej, Gujarat, and another terminal at Kochi, Kerala. While the Dahej terminal has a nominal capacity of 10 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA), the Kochi terminal has a cap...

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) is a schedule 'A' CPSE and subsidiary of ONGC. MRPL is a state-of-the-art grassroot refinery located in the north of Mangalore city in Dakshin Kannada region. The refinery has a versatile design with high flexibility to process crudes of various API and with high degree of automation. MRPL was origina...

GE Oil & Gas is a part of the larger GE Energy group which also includes the GE Energy Management and GE Power & Water divisions. GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technology equipment and services for all segments of the oil and gas industry, from exploration and production to downstream. Its services include offshore and land drilling, s...

Cairn India is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in India with a market capitalisation of around US$ 10 billion. It operates around 30 per cent of India's domestic crude oil production. Through its affiliates, Cairn India has been operating for close to 20 years playing an active role in developing ...

Oil India Private Ltd (OIL) was incorporated in 1959 to expand and develop the newly discovered oil fields of Naharkatiya and Moran in India’s north-east. In 1961, it became a joint venture (JV) company between the Indian government and Burmah Oil Company Ltd, UK. In 1981, OIL became a wholly-owned Government of India enterprise. Today, OIL is a...

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a Government of India enterprise, was founded in 1974. The company, which has been conferred the prestigious Navratna status, is also listed among Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 companies. HPCL had an annual turnover of Rs 190,048 crore (US$ 32.38 billion) and sales/income from operations of Rs 215,675 ...

Established as an oil marketing entity on June 30, 1959, Indian Oil Company Ltd was renamed Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) on September 1, 1964, following its merger with Indian Refineries Ltd. The integrated refining and marketing entity has since grown into India’s largest commercial enterprise. It is the country’s number one company in the pr...

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. It is also the first private sector company from India to feature in Fortune Global 500 list of ‘World’s Largest Corporations’ and ‘World’s Top 100 companies’. The group's activities span exploration and production...

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is an Indian multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Dehradun, India. It is a public sector undertaking (PSU) of the Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It is India's largest oil and gas exploration and production company. It ...