Maharatna company ONGC is the largest crude oil and natural gas company in India. It has 3 plants and 13 process complexes across the country including Navi Mumbai. It has a 25 thousand kilometer long pipeline.
Maharatna company ONGC is the largest crude oil and natural gas company in India. It has 3 plants and 13 process complexes across the country including Navi Mumbai. It owns a 25 thousand kilometer long pipeline, which it operates by itself. That is, it has 6.6 times longer pipeline than NH 44 (Srinagar to Kanyakumari), the longest highway in the country.
ONGC to invest Rs 6000 Crore in Assam to explore & drill 200 developmental wells
Major Setback for ONGC
A massive fire broke out at ONGC’s LPG plant in Uran, Maharashtra on Tuesday. The death toll in the fire reached 7. Two people are injured right now. ONGC told via Twitter that the fire has been completely controlled. It goes on to say that soon after the fire, the other people present there were taken to a safe place. At around 7.20 am on Tuesday morning, there was a loud sound of explosion in the plant. Currently, the cause of the fire has not been known yet. Uran falls near Navi Mumbai, where ONGC has a plant. Relief and rescue workers are present at the scene. After getting information about the incident, police reached the spot and started investigating the case.
The total market capitalization of the company is around Rs 1.551 lakh crore. ONGC contributes about 73% of Indian domestic production and produces about 30% of the total requirement of crude oil.
ONGC plans to open India’s 8th Sedimentary Basin in Kutch
Its subsidiary ONGC Videsh is India’s largest international oil and gas company. ONGC is currently present in 20 foreign countries – Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam and New Zealand. Participation in projects.
ONGC has discovered 6 out of 7 oil and gas producing basins in India. The largest company in India has set up 8.70 billion tonnes of hydrocarbon reserves. It has produced 3.2 million metric tonnes (mmt) of crude oil and 645 billion cubic meters (cbm) of natural gas from domestic acreage, oil deposits.
This company has the largest share of hydrocarbon acres in India (61 percent in PEL fields and 81 percent in ML areas). ONGC has about 10 per cent of the total Indian processing capacity.
ONGC Total Capital creation over 9 lakh crores
The company started six decades ago with an equity capital of Rs 343 crore and since then the company has created assets worth over Rs 9 lakh crore. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Chairman and Managing Director Shashi Shankar recently told reporters that the company has adopted a new ‘Energy Strategy 2040’. With this, the company is moving on a new path to further increase its wealth.
ONGC aims to Double Gas Production in 5-6 years
ONGC remained the highest profit making company for a long time but it lagged behind private sector Reliance and TCS three years ago. In fact, ONGC benefits from three public sector retail companies… Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) was more than the combined profit.
ONGC hungry for more Acquisitions, eyeing GAIL’s Pipeline Business
The company had a total turnover of Rs 1,09,654 crore and net profit of Rs 26,715 crore for the year ended 31 March 2019. Shashi Shankar said that by 2040, the company’s gas production is expected to reach 40 billion cubic meters. It is expected to reach 32 billion cubic meters in the year 2024. The company produced 24.4 million tonnes of crude oil in 2018-19, while it also produced 25.81 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the same year. Apart from this, one crore 1 lakh tonnes of crude oil and 4.7 billion cubic meters of gas were also produced from foreign assets.