Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

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Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
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Branch of Government of India
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Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Agency overview
Jurisdiction Government of India
Headquarters Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi
Annual budget41,008 crore (US$5.1 billion) (2023–24 est.) [1]
Agency executives
Website mopng.gov.in/en

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in the country. The ministry is headed by the Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. M. M. Kutty is the Secretary of the Ministry. [2] Dharmedndra Pradhan serving as the minister from 26 May 2014 to 7 July 2021 is the longest serving minister till date.

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Areas of work

Office of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Shastri Bhwan Office of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 02.jpg
Office of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Shastri Bhwan

Cabinet Ministers

No.PortraitMinister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
1 Humayun Kabir portrait.gif Humayun Kabir
(1906–1969)
MP for Basirhat
21 November
1963
27 May
1964
2 years, 64 days Indian National Congress Nehru IV Jawaharlal Nehru
27 May
1964
9 June
1964
Nanda I Gulzarilal Nanda
9 June
1964
11 January
1966
Shastri Lal Bahadur Shastri
11 January
1966
24 January
1966
Nanda II Gulzarilal Nanda
2 O. V. Alagesan Lok Sabha image.gif O. V. Alagesan
(1911–1992)
MP for Chengalpattu

(MoS)
24 January
1966
13 March
1967
1 year, 48 days Indira I Indira Gandhi
3 No image.svg Asoka Mehta
(1911–1984)
Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra
13 March
1967
22 August
1968
1 year, 162 days Indira II
4 Kotha Raghuramaiah.png Kotha Raghuramaiah
(1912–1979)
MP for Guntur

(MoS)
22 August
1968
14 February
1969
176 days
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines and Metals
5 Triguna Sen 2010 stamp of India.jpg Triguna Sen
(1905–1998)
Rajya Sabha MP for Tripura
14 February
1969
18 March
1971
2 years, 32 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira II Indira Gandhi
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals and Non-ferrous Metals
6 Dajisaheb Chavan Lok Sabha image.gif Dajisaheb Chavan
(1916–1973)
MP for Karad

(MoS)
18 March
1971
2 May
1971
45 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
7 Prakash Chandra Sethi Lok Sabha photo.jpg Prakash Chandra Sethi
(1919–1996)
MP for Indore

(MoS)
2 May
1971
29 January
1972
272 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi
8 No image.svg H. R. Gokhale
(1915–1978)
MP for Mumbai North West
29 January
1972
5 February
1973
1 year, 7 days
9 Dev Kant Baruah.jpg D. K. Barooah
(1914–1996)
Rajya Sabha MP for Assam
5 February
1973
10 October
1974
1 year, 247 days
10 Keshav Dev Malviya portrait.gif Keshav Dev Malviya
(1904–1981)
MP for Domariyaganj
10 October
1974
24 December
1975
1 year, 75 days
Minister of Petroleum
(10) Keshav Dev Malviya portrait.gif Keshav Dev Malviya
(1904–1981)
MP for Domariyaganj
24 December
1975
24 March
1977
1 year, 90 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
11 Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna stamp (cropped).jpg Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
(1919–1989)
MP for Lucknow
29 March
1977
15 July
1977
108 days Janata Party Desai Morarji Desai
Morarji Desai visits the USA (cropped).jpg Morarji Desai
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat

(Prime Minister)
16 July
1979
28 July
1979
12 days
12 No image.svg T. A. Pai
(1922–1981)
MP for Udipi
28 July
1979
19 August
1979
22 days Indian National Congress (U) Charan Singh Charan Singh
13 No image.svg Aravinda Bala Pajanor
(1935–2013)
MP for Pondicherry
19 August
1979
26 December
1979
129 days All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
14 No image.svg Shyam Nath Kacker
(born unknown)
Unelected
26 December
1979
14 January
1980
19 days Janata Party (Secular)
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
(7) Prakash Chandra Sethi Lok Sabha photo.jpg Prakash Chandra Sethi
(1919–1996)
MP for Indore
16 January
1980
7 March
1980
51 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira IV Indira Gandhi
15 No image.svg Veerendra Patil
(1924–1997)
MP for Bagalkot
7 March
1980
19 October
1980
226 days
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
(7) Prakash Chandra Sethi Lok Sabha photo.jpg Prakash Chandra Sethi
(1919–1996)
MP for Indore
19 October
1980
15 January
1982
1 year, 88 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira IV Indira Gandhi
16 P. Shiv Shankar (cropped).jpg P. Shiv Shankar
(1929–2017)
MP for Secunderabad
15 January
1982
2 September
1982
230 days
Ministry disestablished during this interval [lower-alpha 1]
Minister of Petroleum
17 No image.svg Nawal Kishore Sharma
(1925–2012)
MP for Alwar

(MoS, I/C)
31 December
1984
25 September
1985
268 days Indian National Congress (I) Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
(17) No image.svg Nawal Kishore Sharma
(1925–2012)
MP for Alwar

(MoS, I/C)
25 September
1985
20 January
1986
117 days Indian National Congress (I) Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi
18 Chandrashekhar Singh
(1927–1986)
MP for Banka

(MoS, I/C)
20 January
1986
24 June
1986
155 days
19 Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari.jpg N. D. Tiwari
(1925–2018)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
24 June
1986
22 October
1986
120 days
20 No image.svg Brahm Dutt
(1926–2014)
MP for Tehri Garhwal

(MoS, I/C)
22 October
1986
2 December
1989
3 years, 41 days
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
21 M. S. Gurupadaswamy image.jpg M. S. Gurupadaswamy
(1924–2011)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
6 December
1989
10 November
1990
339 days Janata Dal V. P. Singh V. P. Singh
22 No image.svg Satya Prakash Malaviya
(1934–2018)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
21 November
1990
21 June
1991
212 days Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Chandra Shekhar Chandra Shekhar
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
23 B. Shankaranand portrait.jpg B. Shankaranand
(1925–2009)
MP for Chikkodi
21 June
1991
18 January
1993
1 year, 211 days Indian National Congress (I) Rao P. V. Narasimha Rao
24 No image.svg Captain
Satish Sharma
(1947–2021)
MP for Amethi

(MoS, I/C)
18 January
1993
16 May
1996
3 years, 119 days
Atal Bihari Vajpayee tribute image (cropped).jpg Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow

(Prime Minister)
16 May
1996
1 June
1996
16 days Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee I Self
H. D. Deve Gowda BNC.jpg H. D. Deve Gowda
(born 1933)
Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka

(Prime Minister)
1 June
1996
21 April
1997
324 days Janata Dal Deve Gowda Self
Inder Kumar Gujral 071.jpg Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919–2012)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar

(Prime Minister)
21 April
1997
9 June
1997
49 days Gujral Inder Kumar Gujral
25 No image.svg Janeshwar Mishra
(1933–2010)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
9 June
1997
19 March
1998
283 days Samajwadi Party
26 No image.svg Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy
(1940–2002)
MP for Salem
19 March
1998
13 October
1999
1 year, 208 days Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress Vajpayee II Atal Bihari Vajpayee
27 Governor Ram Naik.jpg Ram Naik
(born 1934)
MP for Mumbai North

(MoS, I/C)
13 October
1999
22 May
2004
4 years, 222 days Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee III
28 Mani Shankar Aiyar addressing the Press Conference on 4th NE Business Summit (cropped).jpg Mani Shankar Aiyar
(born 1941)
MP for Mayiladuthurai
23 May
2004
29 January
2006
1 year, 251 days Indian National Congress Manmohan I Manmohan Singh
29 Murli Deora in 2011 (cropped).jpg Murli Deora
(1937–2014)
Rajya MP for Maharashtra
29 January
2006
22 May
2009
4 years, 349 days
28 May
2009
19 January
2011
Manmohan II
30 A delegation of Congress MP's from Andhra Pradesh Calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on October 27, 2007 (1) (cropped).jpg S. Jaipal Reddy
(1942–2019)
MP for Chevella
19 January
2011
28 October
2012
1 year, 283 days
31 M. Veerappa Moily addressing a Press Conference on Electoral Reforms (cropped).jpg Veerappa Moily
(born 1940)
MP for Chikballapur
28 October
2012
26 May
2014
1 year, 210 days
32 The Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan being greeted by the Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dr. M.M. Kutty, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg Dharmendra Pradhan
(born 1969)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar, until 2018
Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh, from 2018

(MoS, I/C until 3 Sep 2017)
27 May
2014
30 May
2019
7 years, 41 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi
31 May
2019
7 July
2021
Modi II
33 Shri Hardeep Singh Puri in July 2021.jpg Hardeep Singh Puri
(born 1952)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
7 July
2021
Incumbent2 years, 325 days

Ministers of State

No.PortraitMinister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
1 O. V. Alagesan Lok Sabha image.gif O. V. Alagesan
(1911–1992)
MP for Chengalpattu
21 November
1963
27 May
1964
2 years, 64 days Indian National Congress Nehru IV Jawaharlal Nehru
27 May
1964
9 June
1964
Nanda I Gulzarilal Nanda
9 June
1964
11 January
1966
Shastri Lal Bahadur Shastri
11 January
1966
24 January
1966
Nanda II Gulzarilal Nanda
2 Kotha Raghuramaiah.png Kotha Raghuramaiah
(1912–1979)
MP for Guntur
18 March
1967
22 August
1968
1 year, 157 days Indira II Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines and Metals
3 Jagannath Rao Lok Sabha portrait.gif Jagannath Rao
(1909–?)
MP for Chatrapur
14 February
1969
27 June
1970
1 year, 133 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira II Indira Gandhi
4 Dajisaheb Chavan Lok Sabha image.gif Dajisaheb Chavan
(1916–1973)
MP for Karad
14 February
1969
18 March
1971
2 years, 32 days
5 Nitiraj Singh Chaudhary.jpg Nitiraj Singh Chaudhary
(1909–1988)
MP for Narmadapuram
26 June
1970
18 March
1971
265 days
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals and Non-ferrous Metals
(5) Nitiraj Singh Chaudhary.jpg Nitiraj Singh Chaudhary
(1909–1988)
MP for Narmadapuram
18 March
1971
2 May
1971
45 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
6 Shah Nawaz Khan.jpg Shah Nawaz Khan
(1914–1993)
MP for Meerut
9 November
1973
10 October
1974
335 days Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi
7 No image.svg K. R. Ganesh
(1922–2004)
MP for Andaman and Nicobar Islands
10 October
1974
1 December
1975
1 year, 52 days
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
8 No image.svg Janeshwar Mishra
(1933–2010)
MP for Prayagraj
14 August
1977
11 July
1978
331 days Janata Party Desai Morarji Desai
9 No image.svg Narsingh Yadav
MP for Chandauli
26 January
1979
15 July
1979
170 days
10 Saugata Roy.png Saugata Roy
(born 1946)
MP for Barrackpore
4 August
1979
14 January
1980
163 days Indian National Congress (U) Charan Singh Charan Singh
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
11 No image.svg Chaudhary Dalbir Singh
(1926–1987)
MP for Sirsa
8 June
1980
19 October
1980
133 days Indian National Congress (I) Indira IV Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
(11) No image.svg Chaudhary Dalbir Singh
(1926–1987)
MP for Sirsa
19 October
1980
2 September
1982
1 year, 318 days Indian National Congress (I) Indira IV Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas
12 Sushila Rohatgi Lok Sabha photo.jpg Sushila Rohatgi
(1921–2011)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
24 June
1986
22 October
1986
120 days Indian National Congress (I) Rajiv IV Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
13 Bhajaman Behera.jpg Bhajaman Behara
(born 1943)
MP for Dhenkanal
23 April
1990
10 November
1990
201 days Janata Dal V. P. Singh V. P. Singh
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas
14 No image.svg S. Krishna Kumar
(born 1939)
MP for Quilon
21 June
1991
18 January
1993
1 year, 211 days Indian National Congress (I) Rao P. V. Narasimha Rao
15 T R Baalu in a Party Meeting Dias.jpg T. R. Baalu
(born 1941)
MP for Chennai South
6 July
1996
21 April
1997
1 year, 256 days Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Deve Gowda H. D. Deve Gowda
21 April
1997
19 March
1998
Gujral Inder Kumar Gujral
16 Santosh Kumar Gangwar (cropped).jpg Santosh Kumar Gangwar
(born 1948)
MP for Bareilly
20 March
1998
13 October
1999
1 year, 207 days Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee II Atal Bihari Vajpayee
17 E. Ponnuswamy (cropped).jpg E. Ponnuswamy
(born 1936)
MP for Chidambaram
13 October
1999
7 February
2001
1 year, 117 days Pattali Makkal Katchi Vajpayee III
(16) Santosh Kumar Gangwar (cropped).jpg Santosh Kumar Gangwar
(born 1948)
MP for Bareilly
22 November
1999
24 May
2003
3 years, 183 days Bharatiya Janata Party
18 Sumitra Mahajan.jpg Sumitra Mahajan
(born 1943)
MP for Indore
24 May
2003
22 May
2004
364 days
19 E. V. K. S. Elangovan at Marriage Function 12.jpg E. V. K. S. Elangovan
(born 1948)
MP for Gobichettipalayam
23 May
2004
25 May
2004
2 days Indian National Congress Manmohan I Manmohan Singh
20 Dinsha Patel (cropped).jpg Dinsha Patel
(born 1937)
MP for Kheda
29 January
2006
22 May
2009
3 years, 113 days
21 Jitin Prasada assuming office as Minister of State, Road Transport and Highways (cropped).jpg Jitin Prasada
(born 1973)
MP for Dhaurahra
28 May
2009
19 January
2011
1 year, 236 days Manmohan II
22 The Prime Minister of Bhutan, Mr. Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay meeting the Minister of State for Home, Shri R.P.N. Singh, in New Delhi on August 30, 2013 (cropped).jpg R. P. N. Singh
(born 1964)
MP for Kushi Nagar
19 January
2011
28 October
2012
1 year, 283 days
23 Panabaka Lakshmi taking office in 2012 (cropped).jpg Panabaka Lakshmi
(born 1958)
MP for Bapatla
31 October
2012
26 May
2014
1 year, 207 days
24 Rameswar Teli (cropped).jpg Rameswar Teli
(born 1970)
MP for Dibrugarh
7 July
2021
Incumbent2 years, 325 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi II Narendra Modi

Public sector undertakings

The ministry has ownership over these public sector undertakings (PSUs) of the government of India.

Research institutes

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology

RGIPT is a training and education institute that gives technical and management training to the petroleum industry and was formally opened in July 2008. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India founded the institute through an Act of Parliament ("Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Act 2007"). [4]

Campuses

  • Jais Campus: Started academic sessions in June 2008 at a temporary campus at Rae Bareli. On 15 October 2016, the institute moved from temporary campus to the permanent campus at Jais. [5]
  • Noida Campus: Besides main center at Jais, Amethi, the RGIPT also have this campus for MBA and related courses.
  • Assam Campus: New campus is under construction at Sivasagar, Assam. In consonance with the charter of RGIPT, the primary objective of the Assam Center of RGIPT is envisaged to offer programmes of education and training of skilled technical manpower at the diploma and advance diploma levels including B.Sc. - M.Sc. integrated courses in various areas in the domain of the petroleum sector as per requirements of the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. [6] [7] On 13 May 2017, Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal and Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan jointly launched the full swing construction work of second campus at Sivasagar, Assam. [8]
  • Bangalore Campus: In July 2013, Karnataka government agreed to offer 200 acres of land to set up the Bangalore centre which is going to be the Asia's first centre on fire and safety for oil and gas sector. [9] The institute will start functioning from 2018-19 academic year and it is purely for research in energy policy and science and technology as it is related to petroleum and energy. The institute coming up will cost Rs.1,000 crore. [10]

Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy

Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam, a domain-specific Institute at par with IITs and IIMs, is established by the Government of India under the aegis of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) in the year 2016. The Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Act, 2017 (No.3 of 2018) enacted by the Parliament and declared the Institute as an 'Institution of National Importance'. IIPE has achieved this prestigious status by joining with the major oil and gas corporations such as HPCL, IOCL, ONGC, OIL & GAIL.

IIPE is a research focussed Institute with an emphasis on the emerging areas in the energy sectors, namely Shale Gas, Coal Bed Methane, Gas Hydrates, Conventional Energy Sources, Renewable Energy Sources, Storage, and downstream activities of oil & gas. A primary goal of research at IIPE has been to meet the country's fossil fuel and renewable energy demands.

The Institute presently offers 4-year B.Tech courses in Petroleum, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering based on JEE (Advanced) rankings and MSc Applied Geology and Ph.D. programmes. The Institute is presently operating its academic activities from its temporary campus. The Institute has its own state-of-the-art laboratories, research infrastructure, e-library, etc. The permanent campus of IIPE is being constructed in the beautiful and natural environment of hilly ranges in the Anakapalli district in Andhra Pradesh.

See also

Notes

  1. The Ministry of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers was bifurcated into the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and the Department of Petroleum under the Ministry of Energy.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy</span>

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Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG pipeline (KGPL) is an under-construction gas pipeline project in India. It has a total length of 2,805 kilometres (1,743 mi) stretching from Kandla port in Gujarat to the city of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh via Madhya Pradesh. The project cost is estimated to be 9,000-10,000 crore. It is constructed by IHB Limited, a joint venture company comprising three PSUs in India: the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL), the Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), and the Bharat Petroleum (BPCL). The pipeline connects refineries to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bottling plants.

Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited is a public sector undertaking situated at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh City, Assam, India. Included in the Assam Accord as an Assam Gas Cracker Project, the construction of BCPL was launched by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 9 April 2007 and it was inaugurated for production on 5 February 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited</span> Indian petrochemical company

HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) is an Indian integrated refining and petrochemical company, with operations spanning crude oil refining and petrochemical manufacturing. It is a public-private partnership between fortune 500 company, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investments Pte Limited (MEIL), a part of the Lakshmi N. Mittal Group. It is headquartered at Noida, Uttar Pradesh and operates the 11.3 MMTPA Guru Gobind Singh Refinery (GGSR) at Bathinda, Punjab.

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