Oil India Limited (OIL) is a fully integrated Exploration & Production company in the upstream sector, with origin dating back to the glorious year (1889) of oil discovery in India. A Navratna Company, OIL is a state-owned enterprise of the Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and is the second-largest national oil and gas company in India.

OIL is engaged in the business of exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas, transportation of crude oil and production of liquid petroleum gas. The company's history spans the discovery of crude oil in the far east of India at Digboi, Assam in 1889 to its present status as a fully integrated upstream petroleum company.

Type	         Public Sector Undertaking
Industry	         Oil and gas
Founded	         18 February 1959
Headquarters	 Duliajan, Assam, India
Key people       Mr Sushil Chandra Mishra (Chairman & MD)
Products	         Petroleum, natural gas, and other petrochemicals
Revenue	         ₹12,028 crore (US$1.8 billion)
Owner	         Government of India (56.66%)
Website	         www.oil-india.com

Oil India Limited was formed by the Burmah Oil Company Limited as its subsidiary in India 1887 to explore in the Assam Basin, India ( Corley, T A B, 1983, The History of the Burmah Oil Company, 1886-1983). Staff at the Burmah Oil Company Limited had heard from a geologist with the colonial British Indian Geological Survey, Thomas Oldham, that oil was found on the feet of elephants that were being used as beasts of burden in the vicinity of the Digboi village (Arun Metrie, pers. comm., former Burmah Oil economist, 1988). The oil on the elephants'​ feet was traced to the Digboi area, where a surface fold (anticline in geological parlance) had formed a broad hill. 

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Shri A.k.sahoo

Shri Vinod Seshan

Shri S. Manoharan

Shri Samik Bhattacharya

Shri Rohit Mathur

Shri Raju Revanakar

Shri Pankaj Kumar Goswami

Shri Harish Madhav

Shri Biswajit Roy

Shri Ashok Das

Shri Amar Nath

Priyank Sharma

Pooja Suri

P. Chandrasekaran

Manas Kumar Sharma

Asha Kaul

Amina R. Khan

Shri Amit Saran

The Leadership Team at Oil India Limited (OIL) oversees strategic decision-making and ensures alignment with the company’s objectives and government regulations. Comprising the Chairman & Managing Director, Chief Vigilance Officer, and Chief Engineer, the team focuses on steering the organization towards sustained growth, operational excellence, and ethical governance in its upstream petroleum activities.

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