Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Annual budget	₹42,901 crore (US$6.0 billion) (2020-21 est.)
Agency executives	Hardeep Singh Puri, Cabinet Minister Rameswar Teli, Minister of State
Website	petroleum.nic.in

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the Government of India. It is responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in India.

The ministry is headed by the Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Dr M M Kutty is the Secretary of the Ministry.

Important areas of work allocated to the Ministry

• 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 failing 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

List Of Ministers

No	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party		Prime Minister
1		Humayun Kabir	21 November 1963	24 January 1966	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri
2		O. V. Alagesan (Independent Charge)	24 January 1966	12 March 1967			Indira Gandhi
3		Asoka Mehta	13 March 1967	22 August 1968
4		Kotha Raghuramaiah (Independent Charge)	22 August 1968	14 February 1969
5		Triguna Sen	14 February 1969	18 March 1971
6		Dajisaheb Chavan (MoS, Independent Charge)	18 March 1971	02 May 1971
7		Prakash Chandra Sethi	02 May 1971	29 January 1972
8		H. R. Gokhale	29 January 1972	05 February 1973
9		Devakanta Barua	05 February 1973	10 October 1974
10		Keshav Dev Malviya	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
11		Morarji Desai	26 March 1977	28 March 1977	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
12		H. N. Bahuguna	28 March 1977	15 July 1979
13		Ravindra Varma	15 July 1979	28 July 1979
14		T. A. Pai	28 July 1979	24 August 1979	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
15		Aravinda Bala Pajanor	24 August 1979	23 December 1979	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
16		Charan Singh	23 December 1979	27 December 1979	Janata Party (Secular)
17		S. N. Kacker	27 December 1979	14 January 1980
18		Indira Gandhi	14 January 1980	16 January 1980	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
(7)		Prakash Chandra Sethi	16 January 1980	07 March 1980
19		Virendra Patil	07 March 1980	19 October 1980
(7)		Prakash Chandra Sethi	19 October 1980	15 January 1982
20		P Shiv Shankar	15 January 1982	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
21		Nawal Kishore Sharma (Independent Charge)	31 December 1984	20 January 1986			Rajiv Gandhi
22		Chandrashekhar Singh (Independent Charge)	20 January 1986	24 June 1986
23		N. D. Tiwari	24 June 1986	22 October 1986
24		Brahm Dutt (Independent Charge)	22 October 1986	02 December 1989
25		V. P. Singh	2 December 1989	6 December 1989	Janata Dal		V. P. Singh
26		M. S. Gurupadaswamy	6 December 1989	10 November 1990
27		Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)		Chandra Shekhar
28		Satya Prakash Malaviya	21 November 1990	21 June 1991
29		B. Shankaranand	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
30		Satish Sharma (Independent Charge)	18 January 1993	16 May 1996
31		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
32		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	Janata Dal		H. D. Deve Gowda
33		I. K. Gujral	21 April 1997	9 June 1997			I. K. Gujral
34		Janeshwar Mishra	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	Samajwadi Party
35		Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1|	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
36		Ram Naik	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party
37		Mani Shankar Aiyar	22 May 2004	29 January 2005	Indian National Congress		Manmohan Singh
38		Murli Deora	29 January 2005	20 January 2011
39		S. Jaipal Reddy	20 January 2011	29 October 2012
40		M. Veerappa Moily	29 October 2012	26 May 2014
41		Dharmendra Pradhan (Independent Charge till 3 September 2017)	26 May 2014	7 July 2021	Bharatiya Janata Party		Narendra Modi
42		Hardeep Singh Puri	7 July 2021	Incumbent

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Days
Dinsha Patel		Indian National Congress		2006	2009
Jitin Prasada		Indian National Congress		26 May 2009	18 Jan 2011	602 days
R. P. N. Singh		Indian National Congress		19 Jan 2011	28 Oct 2012	648 days
Panabaka Lakshmi		Indian National Congress		28 Oct 2012	17 May 2014	566 days
Rameswar Teli		Bharatiya Janata Party		7 July 2021	Incubment	1246 days

Central Public Sector Units

The ministry has ownership over these seven central public sector undertakings of the Government of India.

• Balmer Lawrie
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
• Engineers India Limited
• Gas Authority of India Limited
• Indian Oil Corporation Limited
• Oil India Limited
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited

Research Institute

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 on 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").

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.
• 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. 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.
• 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. 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.

Controversies

On 20 February 2015, A group of seven Indian petroleum ministry and oil firm employees were arrested for allegedly stealing and leaking classified documents to energy companies in exchange for cash payments. The group stole, photocopied and leaked confidential oil ministry documents related to energy pricing and policy in exchange for undisclosed sums of money. They were apprehended when Delhi police received a tip that the men were trying to break into offices at the ministry.

See also

• Electricity sector in India
• Nuclear power in India
• Oil Industry Safety Directorate
• Petrol stations in India
• Solar power in India
• Wind power in India
• Renewable energy in India

External links

• Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
• Structure of the Ministry