Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Annual budget	₹41,008 crore (US$5.1 billion) (2023-24 est.) [1]
Agency executives	Hardeep Singh Puri, Cabinet Minister Rameswar Teli, Minister of State M. M. Kutty, Secretary
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]

Areas of work

Office of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Shastri Bhwan

• 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

List of ministers

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Humayun Kabir	21 November 1963	24 January 1966	2 years, 64 days	Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri	Indian National Congress
2		O. V. Alagesan (Independent Charge)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days	Indira Gandhi
3		Asoka Mehta	13 March 1967	22 August 1968	1 year, 162 days
4		Kotha Raghuramaiah (Independent Charge)	22 August 1968	14 February 1969	176 days
5		Triguna Sen	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
6		Dajisaheb Chavan (Independent Charge)	18 March 1971	2 May 1971	45 days
7		Prakash Chandra Sethi	2 May 1971	29 January 1972	272 days
8		H. R. Gokhale	29 January 1972	5 February 1973	1 year, 7 days
9		D. K. Barooah	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
10		Keshav Dev Malviya	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
11		Morarji Desai	26 March 1977	29 March 1977	3 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
12		Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	29 March 1977	15 July 1979	2 years, 108 days
13		Ravindra Varma	15 July 1979	28 July 1979	13 days
14		T. A. Pai	28 July 1979	18 August 1979	21 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
15		A. Bala Pajanor	19 August 1979	23 December 1979	127 days		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
16		Charan Singh	23 December 1979	27 December 1979	4 days		Janata Party (Secular)
17		S. N. Kacker	27 December 1979	14 January 1980	18 days
18		Indira Gandhi	14 January 1980	16 January 1980	2 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
(7)		Prakash Chandra Sethi	16 January 1980	15 January 1982	1 year, 364 days
19		P. Shiv Shankar	15 January 1982	31 December 1984	2 years, 351 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
20		Nawal Kishore Sharma (Independent Charge)	31 December 1984	20 January 1986	1 year, 20 days	Rajiv Gandhi
21		Chandrashekhar Singh (Independent Charge)	20 January 1986	9 July 1986	170 days
22		N. D. Tiwari	9 July 1986	22 October 1986	105 days
23		Brahm Dutt (Independent Charge)	22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days
24		Vishwanath Pratap Singh	2 December 1989	6 December 1989	4 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
25		M. S. Gurupadaswamy	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days
26		Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	11 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
27		Satya Prakash Malaviya	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days
28		B. Shankaranand	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 211 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
29		Satish Sharma (Independent Charge)	18 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 119 days
30		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
31		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
32		Inder Kumar Gujral	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days	Inder Kumar Gujral
33		Janeshwar Mishra	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days		Samajwadi Party
34		Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress
35		Ram Naik	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	4 years, 222 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
36		Mani Shankar Aiyar	22 May 2004	29 January 2006	1 year, 252 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
37		Murli Deora	29 January 2006	19 January 2011	4 years, 355 days
38		Jaipal Reddy	19 January 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 283 days
39		Veerappa Moily	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
40		Dharmendra Pradhan (Independent Charge till 3-Sep-2017)	26 May 2014	7 July 2021	7 years, 42 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
41		Hardeep Singh Puri	7 July 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 351 days

List of Ministers of State

Central Public Sector Undertakings

The ministry has ownership over these eight central public sector undertakings of the government of India.

• Balmer Lawrie
• Bharat Petroleum
• Engineers India
• GAIL (India) Limited
• Indian Oil Corporation
• Oil India
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
• Beicco Lawrie

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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 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

Pandit Deendayal Energy University

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.^[11]