Joseph Kuruvilla

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 14th among global energy majors (Platts). It is the only Indian company to figure in Fortune’s ‘Most Admired Energy Companies’ list. ONGC ranks 226th 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 25,000 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, renewables, LNG, Power generation, petrochemicals and Value Added Products. ONGC's wholly-owned subsidiary Navratna ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is the biggest Indian multinational in the energy space, participating in 32 oil and gas properties in 15 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. ONGC subsidiary HPCL is a Maharatna CPSE, and has the second largest share of product pipelines in India with a pipeline network of more than 3370 kms for transportation of petroleum products and a vast marketing network consisting of 14 Zonal offices and 133 Regional Offices.