Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas is the head of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.

Ministers

Name	Term of office		Party		Prime Minister
Humayun Kabir	21 November 1963	24 January 1966	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri
O. V. Alagesan (MoS, Independent Charge)	24 January 1966	12 March 1967			Indira Gandhi
Asoka Mehta	13 March 1967	22 August 1968
K. Raghu Ramiah (MoS, Independent Charge)	22 August 1968	14 February 1969
Trigun Sen	14 February 1969	18 March 1971
D. R. Chavan (MoS, Independent Charge)	18 March 1971	02 May 1971
P. C. Sethi	02 May 1971	29 January 1972
H. R. Gokhale	29 January 1972	05 February 1973
Dev Kanta Barooah	05 February 1973	10 October 1974
K. D. Malviya	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
Morarji Desai	26 March 1977	28 March 1977	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
H. N. Bahuguna	28 March 1977	15 July 1979
Ravindra Verma	15 July 1979	28 July 1979
T. A. Pai	28 July 1979	24 August 1979	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
Aravinda Bala Pazhanoor	24 August 1979	23 December 1979	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Charan Singh	23 December 1979	27 December 1979	Janata Party (Secular)
S. N. Kacker	27 December 1979	14 January 1980
Indira Gandhi	14 January 1980	16 January 1980	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
P. C. Sethi	16 January 1980	07 March 1980
Virendra Patil	07 March 1980	19 October 1980
P. C. Sethi	19 October 1980	15 January 1982
P Shiv Shankar	15 January 1982	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
Naval K Sharma (MoS, Independent Charge)	31 December 1984	20 January 1986			Rajiv Gandhi
Chandrashekhar Singh (MoS, Independent Charge)	20 January 1986	24 June 1986
N. D. Tiwari	24 June 1986	22 October 1986
Brahm Dutt (MoS, Independent Charge)	22 October 1986	02 December 1989
V. P. Singh	02 December 1989	06 December 1989	Janata Party (National Front)		V. P. Singh
M. S. Guruprasadswamy	06 December 1989	10 November 1990
Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)		Chandra Shekhar
Satya Prakash Malaviya	21 November 1990	21 June 1991
B. Shankaranand	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
Satish Sharma (MoS, Independent Charge)	18 January 1993	16 May 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
H. D. Deve Gowda	01 June 1996	21 April 1997	Janata Dal (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral	21 April 1997	09 June 1997			I. K. Gujral
Janeshwar Mishra	09 June 1997	18 March 1998
Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	18 March 1998	13 October 1999	Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (National Democratic Alliance)	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1|	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ram Naik	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
Mani Shankar Aiyar	22 May 2004	29 January 2005	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
Murli Deora	29 January 2005	20 January 2011
S. Jaipal Reddy	20 January 2011	29 October 2012
M. Veerappa Moily	29 October 2012	26 May 2014
Dharmendra Pradhan (MoS, Independent Charge till 03 September 2017)	26 May 2014	07 July 2021	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Narendra Modi
Hardeep Singh Puri	07 July 2021