Question : EXPLORATION ON ON SHORE AND OFF-SHORE DRILLING

he details of companies which are actively operating in the petroleum and natural gas sector specially on-shore and off-shore drilling, refining and pipeline constructions from India and abroad?

Answer given by the minister

Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs(Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar)


A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.


STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3893 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8.8.2002 REGARDING EXPLORATION ON ON-SHORE AND OFF-SHORE DRILLING


The details of major companies and their present activities in the petroleum and natural gas sector are given in the Table below:-

Sl. No.	Name of the Company	Nature of the company	(i.e. PSU/Pvt.)	Present activities
1. Oil and Natural Gas Corpn Ltd. Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Exploration and Production (E&P), Refining, acquisition of exploration acreages and producing proprieties overseas through its subsidiary, ONGC-Videsh Ltd.

2. Oil India Ltd. PSU E&P, and transportation of crude oil to various refineries.

3. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. PSU Refining and Marketing 4 Hindustan Petroleum Corpn Ltd. PSU Refining and Marketing

5. Bharat Petroleum Corpn Ltd. PSU Refining and Marketing 6. Mangalore Refinery and Petro-chemicals Ltd. Joint Venture Refining

7 Gas Authority of India Ltd. PSU Pipelines, transportation and marketing of gas and production of petro-chemicals.

8. Reliance Industries Limited Private E&P and Refining

9. Hardy Exploration & Production India Inc. Private E&P of hydrocarbons 10. Niko Resources Ltd. Private E&P 11. Hindustan Oil Exploration Coy. Private E&P 12. Cairn Energy India Pty. Ltd. Private E&P 13. Essar Oil Ltd. Private E&P 14. Phoenix Overseas Ltd. Private E&P 15. Gujarat State Petroleum Company Ltd. PSU(State) E&P 16. Centurion Energy Limited Private E&P 17. British Gas Exploration & Production India Ltd. Private E&P 18. OAG Gazprom Private E&P 19. Joshi Technologies Ltd. Private E&P 20. Mosbacher India LLC Private E&P 21. Geo-Enpro Private E&P 22. Okland International LDC Private E&P 23. Selan Exploration Technologies Ltd. Private E&P 24. Larsen & Toubro Private E&P 25. Interlink Petroleum Ltd. Private E&P 26. M.D. Petrom Oil & Gas Pvt.Ltd. Private E&P 27. Petronet India Ltd. Private Laying of petroleum product pipelines.