Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
	Branch of Government of India
	Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹15,930 crore (US$1.9 billion)(2024–25)
Minister responsible	Hardeep Singh Puri, Cabinet Minister;
Deputy Minister responsible	Suresh Gopi, Minister of State;
Agency executive	Pankaj Jain, IAS, Secretary;
Website	mopng.gov.in/en
Footnotes

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 Cabinet minister Hardeep Singh Puri, while its secretary is Pankaj Jain, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.^[3] Dharmendra Pradhan, who served from 26 May 2014 to 7 July 2021, is its longest serving minister till date.

Areas of work

Exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources, including natural gas.
Production, supply distribution, marketing and pricing of petroleum including natural gas and petroleum products.
Oil refineries, including Lube plants.
Additives for petroleum and petroleum products.
Lube blending and greases.
Planning, development and control of, and assistance to all industries dealt with by the Ministry.
All attached or subordinate offices or other organisations concerned with any of the subject specified in this list.
Planning, development and regulation of oilfield services.
Public sector projects falling under the subjects included in this list,
Engineers India limited and IBP Company. together with its subsidiaries, except such projects as are specifically allotted to any other Ministry/Dept,
Administration of various Central laws relating to Petroleum and Natural Gas

Cabinet Ministers

No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals
1		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 (1911–1992) MP for Chengalpattu (MoS)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days		Indira I		Indira Gandhi
3		Asoka Mehta (1911–1984) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	13 March 1967	22 August 1968	1 year, 162 days		Indira II
4		Kotha Raghuramaiah (1912–1979) MP for Guntur (MoS)	22 August 1968	14 February 1969	176 days		Indira II
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines and Metals
5		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 (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 (1919–1996) MP for Indore (MoS)	2 May 1971	29 January 1972	272 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III		Indira Gandhi
8		H. R. Gokhale (1915–1978) MP for Mumbai North West	29 January 1972	5 February 1973	1 year, 7 days
9		D. K. Barooah (1914–1996) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
10		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 (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 (1919–1989) MP for Lucknow	29 March 1977	15 July 1977	108 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
–		Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	16 July 1979	28 July 1979	12 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
12		T. A. Pai (1922–1981) MP for Udipi	28 July 1979	19 August 1979	22 days	Indian National Congress (U)	Charan		Charan Singh
13		Aravinda Bala Pajanor (1935–2013) MP for Pondicherry	19 August 1979	26 December 1979	129 days	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
14		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 (1919–1996) MP for Indore	16 January 1980	7 March 1980	51 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
15		Veerendra Patil (1924–1997) MP for Bagalkot	7 March 1980	19 October 1980	226 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
(7)		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 (1929–2017) MP for Secunderabad	15 January 1982	2 September 1982	230 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
Ministry disestablished during this interval^[a]
Minister of Petroleum
17		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)		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		N. D. Tiwari (1925–2018) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	24 June 1986	22 October 1986	120 days
20		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 (1924–2011) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath		Vishwanath Pratap Singh
22		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 (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		Captain Satish Sharma (1947–2021) MP for Amethi (MoS, I/C)	18 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 119 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao		P. V. Narasimha Rao
–		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 (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 (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister)	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days	Janata Dal	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
25		Janeshwar Mishra (1933–2010) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	Samajwadi Party	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
26		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		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		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
28		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 (1937–2014) Rajya MP for Maharashtra	29 January 2006	22 May 2009	4 years, 349 days		Manmohan I
29		Murli Deora (1937–2014) Rajya MP for Maharashtra	28 May 2009	19 January 2011	4 years, 349 days		Manmohan II
30		S. Jaipal Reddy (1942–2019) MP for Chevella	19 January 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 283 days
31		Veerappa Moily (born 1940) MP for Chikballapur	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
32		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
32			31 May 2019	7 July 2021	7 years, 41 days		Modi II
33		Hardeep Singh Puri (born 1952) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	3 years, 180 days		Modi II
33			10 June 2024	Incumbent	3 years, 180 days		Modi III

Ministers of State

No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
1		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 (1912–1979) MP for Guntur	18 March 1967	22 August 1968	1 year, 157 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II		Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines and Metals
3		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 (1916–1973) MP for Karad	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
5		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 (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 (1914–1993) MP for Meerut	9 November 1973	10 October 1974	335 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III		Indira Gandhi
7		K. R. Ganesh (1922–2004) MP for Andaman and Nicobar Islands	10 October 1974	1 December 1975	1 year, 52 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III		Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers
8		Janeshwar Mishra (1933–2010) MP for Prayagraj	14 August 1977	11 July 1978	331 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
9		Narsingh Yadav MP for Chandauli	26 January 1979	15 July 1979	170 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai

10		Saugata Roy (born 1946) MP for Barrackpore	4 August 1979	14 January 1980	163 days	Indian National Congress (U)	Charan		Charan Singh
Minister of State for Petroleum and Chemicals
11		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)		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 (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 Behara (born 1943) MP for Dhenkanal	23 April 1990	10 November 1990	201 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath		Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas
14		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 (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
15		T. R. Baalu (born 1941) MP for Chennai South	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	1 year, 256 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
16		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 (born 1936) MP for Chidambaram	13 October 1999	7 February 2001	1 year, 117 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Vajpayee III
(16)		Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1948) MP for Bareilly	22 November 1999	24 May 2003	3 years, 183 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
18		Sumitra Mahajan (born 1943) MP for Indore	24 May 2003	22 May 2004	364 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
19		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 (born 1937) MP for Kheda	29 January 2006	22 May 2009	3 years, 113 days		Manmohan I
21		Jitin Prasada (born 1973) MP for Dhaurahra	28 May 2009	19 January 2011	1 year, 236 days		Manmohan II
22		R. P. N. Singh (born 1964) MP for Kushi Nagar	19 January 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 283 days
23		Panabaka Lakshmi (born 1958) MP for Bapatla	31 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 207 days

24		Rameswar Teli (born 1970) MP for Dibrugarh	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II		Narendra Modi
25		Suresh Gopi (born 1958) MP for Thrissur	10 June 2024	Incumbent	207 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi III		Narendra Modi

Public sector undertakings

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

Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited (BL)
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL)
Engineers India Limited (EIL)
GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL)
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)^[4]
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL)
Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)
Oil India Limited (OIL)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL)

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").^[5]

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.^[6]
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.^[7]^[8] 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.^[9]
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.^[10] 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.^[11]

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.

Notes

^ 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.