About Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd

Maharatna Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is the largest crude oil and natural gas Company in India, contributing around 75% to Indian domestic production. Crude oil is the raw material used by downstream companies like IOC, BPCL, and HPCL (subsidiary of ONGC) to produce petroleum products like Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, and Cooking Gas-LPG. The Government of India (GoI) held 60.41% stake in ONGC as on 31 December 2020. This largest natural gas company ranks 11th among global energy majors (Platts). It is the only public sector Indian company to feature in Fortune's Most Admired Energy Companies' list. ONGC ranks 18th in Oil and Gas operations' and 220 overall in Forbes Global 2000. ONGC's wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm ONGC Videsh is India's largest international oil and gas E&P Company with 39 projects in 18 countries including Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Myanmar, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Venezuela, Vietnam, New Zealand and Namibia. ONGC Videsh is currently producing about 285,000 barrels of oil and oil equivalent gas per day and has total oil and gas reserves (2P) of about 704 mmtoe as on 1 April 2017. ONGC was set up under the visionary leadership of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Pandit Nehru reposed faith in Shri Keshav Dev Malviya who laid the foundation of ONGC in the form of Oil and Gas division, under Geological Survey of India, in 1955. A few months later, it was converted into an Oil and Natural Gas Directorate. The Directorate was converted into Commission and christened Oil & Natural Gas Commission on 14 August 1956. In 1994, Oil and Natural Gas Commission was converted in to a Corporation, and in 1997 it was recognized as one of the Navratnas by the Government of India. Subsequently, it was conferred with Maharatna status in the year 2010. On 28 March 2003, ONGC acquired the entire shareholding of A.V. Birla Group in Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) and further infused equity capital of Rs 600 crore thus making MRPL a majority held subsidiary of ONGC. Before acquisition by ONGC in March 2003, MRPL was a joint venture oil refinery promoted by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a public sector company, and IRIL & associates (AV Birla Group). During March 1999, ONGC, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) agreed to have cross holding in each other's stock to pave the way for Long-term strategic alliance amongst themselves for the domestic and overseas business opportunities in the energy value chain. The ONGIO International Pvt Ltd was incorporated in the year 2001 as 50:50 joint venture projects with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd with aim of providing Training, Consultancy & Services in Hydrocarbon Sector and later company has decided to wind up ONGIO due to loss. During 2001-02 the augment recovery from onshore fields of 13 projects 2 were resourcefully commissioned. By the end of the same year 2001-02 the company 's subsidiary unit ONGC Videsh Ltd commenced its commercial production of gas. In the year of 2004, ONGC initiated Phase-I of a collaborative project on CBM in Jharia Field and successfully completed the same in 2005. During 2004-05 the company discovered its third deep-water exploration campaign 'Sagar Samriddhi' in Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin at the location Vashistha (VA-1A) in block KG-OS-DW-IV. In the western offshore a shallow-water oil and gas was recorded in D-33, about 60 Kilometers South-West of Mumbai High, Onshore. Oil and Gas was found in Tiphuk-1 in North Assam Shelf and Oil was struck at Wamaj in Cambay Basin. Offshore, four new Platforms (2 Well Platforms, 1 Process Platforms and 1 Clamp-on) were commissioned for enhancing production. In March 2005, ONGC launched its retail marketing business with commissioning of its first auto fuel outlet at Manglore under the brand 'ONGC Values' and 'Shopp'njoy' for fuel and non-fuel business respectively. The company also received approval/license from the Government for marketing of non-subsidised LPG cooking gas, Kerosene and Aviation refueling sales. Tripura Power Development Company Pvt Ltd (TPDCL) was incorporated to set up a gas-based power-generating project in Tripura. TPDCL was later renamed as ONGC Tripura Power Company Pvt Ltd. In the same year the company entered into various alliances in form of execution of Memorandum of Understanding with Kakinada Seaport & IL&FS with 26% equity stake for development of Port based SEZ at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. During the year 2006 the company was awarded 60 out of 110 exploration blocks by the Government in the five NELP rounds. In December 2009, the company entered into two broad enabling agreements with Iranian authorities for participation in development of gas fields and liquefaction facilities in Iran, in return for assured minimum 6 million tonne LNG per annum on long term basis. Also, ONGC Videsh entered into a non exclusive memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of jointly studying and if mutually agreed, to participate in attractive oil and gas assets in Russia and third countries. In June 2010, Stealth Ventures Ltd entered into a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) with the company to evaluate emerging Unconventional Resource plays and opportunities in India. The objective of the JSA is to identify the unconventional resource plays within India, and a high priority has been given by both parties, to identify high growth profile shale gas and CBM prospects, on the basis of the large database available within ONGC. In December 2010, the company's subsidiary, ONGC Videsh Ltd signed a Framework Agreement on Cooperation in Hydrocarbon Sector in Delhi with Sistema, a public financial corporation in Russia and CIS. On 3 January 2011, the managements of ONGC and GAIL (India) reached a landmark understanding for mutual business growth covering natural gas as well as petrochemicals. As regards the understanding reached for gas business, both companies would work together for exclusive sale of natural gas produced by ONGC from its various fields to GAIL during next 3 years. This joint initiative will serve as a catalyst for effective monetization of gas from future E&P fields of ONGC, with GAIL providing the infrastructure and marketing tie-up for supply to potential customers. The two companies also reached an understanding in swapping gas available to both the companies so as to optimise the logistics and costs. As regards the understanding reached for the petrochemicals business, GAIL has formally agreed to become a co-promoter of 1.1 MMTPA Ethylene Cracker Petrochemical complex, under implementation in Dahej SEZ area at a capital investment of Rs19535 crore. ONGC is implanting this mega projects through its unit ONGC Petro additions Ltd (OPaL). An understanding was also reached for marketing of a portion of petrochemical products of OPaL by GAIL. GAIL and ONGC would also explore the possibility of setting up a downstream unit using Butadiene, a by-product of OPaL, to GAIL for manufacture of value-added products. On 21 January 2011, ONGC activated its emergency response measures immediately on detection of a leakage at its Mumbai Uran Trunk (MUT) oil pipeline. ONGC created an exploration landmark when gas flowed out from the Barren Measure shale at a depth of around 1700 m., in its first R & D well RNSG-1 near Durgapur at Icchapur, West Bengal on 25 January 2011. Shale gas is one of the predominant unconventional natural gas and major source of onland gas particularly in US and Canada. While noting two impressive discoveries (Exploratory Well B-127E-1 in Panna Formation to the east of B-127 area and North Kadi-472 (NKXV) in the Mandhali member of Kadi formation), ONGC's Board of Directors at its 225th Board Meeting held on 1 December 2011 also approved the integrated development of B-127 cluster along with the Additional Development of B-55 field. B-127 cluster comprises of three marginal fields namely; B-127, B-157 and B-59. The cluster is located east of Mumbai High with significant hydrocarbon accumulations in multi-layered reservoirs within Bassein and Panna formations. The estimated capital expenditure for the integrated development of B-127 cluster with additional development of B-55 field was pegged at Rs 2059.63 crore. A landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for hydrocarbon cooperation was signed between ONGC and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on 18 June 2012. Under the MoU, the two oil giants agreed to foster their cooperation either directly or through their subsidiaries by expanding cooperation in upstream E&P areas, refining or processing of crude oil and natural gas in midstream or downstream projects, marketing and distribution of petroleum products and construction and operation of oil and gas pipelines. The areas of cooperation between ONGC and CNPC will also extend to joint participation in suitable hydrocarbon projects in other countries of interest by exchanging information and working for mutual growth and benefit by extending cooperation in hydrocarbon sectors globally. On 29 June 2012, ONGC announced that the United Nations body on Climate Change has issued a massive kitty of 121,207 carbon credits to ONGC's 51 megawatt wind power project at Bhuj (Gujarat) on 7 June 2012. On 11 August 2012, ONGC announced that it had struck third largest reservoir in Western Offshore. On 8 September 2012, ONGC Videsh signed definitive agreements for the acquisition of Hess Corporation's 2.7213% participating interest in the Azeri, Chirag and the Deep Water Portion of Guneshli Fields in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea (ACG) and 2.36% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC), for US$ 1 Billion. On 5 November 2012, ONGC announced that Japan's largest oil company INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) has acquired a 26% participating interest farmed-out by ONGC in the exploration block KG-DWN-2004/6, located in the deep waters of Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal. ONGC continues as operator of the block with a 34% participating interest in consortium with existing partners GAIL (India) Limited (10%), Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited (10%), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (10%) and Oil India Limited (10%). On 18 March 2013, ONGC with its consortium partners BPCL and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) for setting up a Re-gasification LNG terminal at New Mangalore Port. The consortium will carry out a feasibility study for a terminal of 2-3 MMTPA capacity, expandable to 5 MMTPA. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 241st meeting held on 20 March 2013 took note of three significant hydrocarbon discoveries and also accorded approval for investment of over Rs 4050 crore to upgrade western offshore facilities on the Arabian Sea through two major projects. On 1 April 2013, ONGC Videsh announced the completion of acquisition of Hess Corporation's 2.7213% participating interest in the Azeri, Chirag and the Deep Water Portion of Guneshli Fields (ACG) in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea and 2.36% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC). Earlier, on 7 September 2012, ONGC Videsh and Hess had entered into definitive agreements and subsequently all relevant government and regulatory approvals were received. On 9 April 2013, ONGC inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. (CFCL) and the state government of Tripura for setting up a urea fertilizer project in Tripura. On 28 July 2013, ONGC announced that it has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to explore the possibility of sharing the latter's infrastructural facility in the East Coast. On 14 October 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that the company through its affiliates signed definitive agreements to acquire additional 12% Participating Interest (PI) in Block BC-10, Campos Basin, Deep Offshore Brazil as part of the sale of 35% share made by Petrobras. ONGC Videsh had earlier acquired 15% PI in the block in 2006. On 20 November 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Petrovietnam (PVN) to promote the joint cooperation in hydrocarbon sector in Vietnam, India and other countries. On 31 December 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that the company through its affiliates has acquired an additional 12% Participating Interest (PI) in Block BC-10, a deepwater offshore block in Campos Basin, Brazil taking its total PI in the block to 27%. Shell, the operator of the block, holds the balance 73% PI in the block. On 12 February 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it has entered into separate agreements with two consortiums of international banks to raise USD 2.5 billion by way of offshore borrowings to finance its acquisition of 10% participating interest in Rovuma Area I Block in Mozambique offshore.ONGC Videsh (OVL) signed Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for two shallow water exploration blocks SS-09 & SS-04 in the Bay of Bengal of Bangladesh on 17 February 2014. OVL along with Oil India Limited (OIL) formed a consortium (50:50) and participated in the Bangladesh Offshore Bidding Round 2012, launched by Bangladesh Government during December 2012. OVL/OIL consortium was officially notified as the winner of two shallow water blocks SS-09 & SS-04 on 20 August 2013. On 28 February 2014, ONGC Videsh (OVL) announced that it had completed the acquisition of 10% participating interest (PI) in the Rovuma Area 1 offshore Block in Mozambique from Anadarko Mo ambique Area 1 Limitada (Anadarko). On the 24 August 2013, OVL signed definitive agreements with Anadarko to acquire this interest.On 14 March 2014, ONGC announced that it has acquired Government of India's (GoI) 5% stake in Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) pursuant to a decision by GoI to divest a total 10% stake in IOCL to ONGC and Oil India. ONGC paid a total consideration of Rs 2670.74 crore for acquiring 12.13 crore IOCL shares at Rs 220 per share. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 254th meeting held on 24 March 2014 accorded approval for additional development of its Vasai East Field in Arabian Sea at a total estimated capital cost of Rs 2476.82 crore.. On 27 June 2014, ONGC announced that its Board of Directors approved the proposal for redevelopment of its giant offshore field - Mumbai High (North) involving a capital investment of Rs 5706.47 crore, including foreign exchange component of Rs 4421.76 Crore (USD 743.15 Million at exchange rate of Rs. 59.50/USD). On 8 July 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it had priced US$ 1.5 Billion and Euro 525 million unsecured bonds in the international capital markets. It was the maiden offering by ONGC Videsh in the Euro bond markets. The offering was oversubscribed approximately 4.5 times in USD and 3.6 times in Euro. ONGC Videsh signed Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for two onland exploration blocks B-2 & EP-3 in Myanmar on 8 August 2014. ONGC Videsh participated in the Myanmar Onland Bidding Round 2013, launched by Myanmar Government during January 2013 and was awarded two onshore blocks namely B2 and EP-3 on 10 October 2013. On 28 August 2014, ONGC announced that it would invest Rs 5219 crore towards Daman Development project to enhance production of natural gas and condensate in its Tapti Daman Block in Arabian Sea. The investment decision was approved by the ONGC Board at its 260th neeting. The project is located about 90-100 Km from Daman coast and includes additional development of C-24 field and monetization of B-12 marginal fields (B-12-11, B-12-13 and B-12-15).ONGC Videsh and YPF S.A., the major oil producing company of Argentina, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 1 September 2014 to cooperate in the hydrocarbon sector. Under the MOU, the two companies will analyse the opportunities for cooperation in upstream sector in Argentina, India and third countries. The MOU also envisages collaboration in the areas of research & development and human resources. ONGC Videsh and Pemex-Exploracion Y Produccion (PEP), the upstream subsidiary of Pemex, the national oil company of Mexico, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MOU) on 25 September 2014 to cooperate in the hydrocarbon sector in Mexico. Under the MOU, the two companies plan to discuss future cooperation and collaboration in the upstream sector in Mexico. The MOU also envisages cooperation in the fields of technology, human resources, research & development. On 28 October 2014, ONGC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation Ltd. (PVEP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), for mutual cooperation for exploration in the NELP Blocks of ONGC in Andaman and Cauvery basins, subject to due diligence and negotiations on terms of participation. Simultaneously, ONGC Videsh signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with PVEP for mutual cooperation for exploration in Blocks 102/10 & 106/10 of PVEP and Block 128 of ONGC Videsh in offshore Vietnam, subject to due diligence and negotiations on terms of participation. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its meeting held on 14 November 2014 approved two major investment decisions valued over Rs 10600 crore for further enhancing production from its Western Offshore fields. The projects are- Redevelopment (Phase-III) of its giant offshore field - Mumbai High (South) involving a capital investment of Rs 6069 crore and Integrated Development of Mukta, Bassein and Panna Formations at an estimated capex of Rs 4620 crore. On 10 December 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it has won an Exploration Block- 14TAR-R1 in the Taranaki offshore basin in New Zealand in the Bidding Round Block Offer-2014 by the Government of New Zealand. The bidding round was launched in April 2014 offering five offshore and three onshore release areas for competitive bidding. On 13 December 2014, ONGC notified three hydrocarbon discoveries; one in deepwater Krishna Godavari Basin, off the east coast of the country, one in Mumbai offshore Basin, off the west coast of the country and one in Cauvery basin in the southern onland part of the country. On 13 February 2015, ONGC Videsh announced that its flagship project Sakhalin 1' in Far East Russia added another feather to its crown by commencing oil production from Arkutun Dagi, the third and final field being developed as part of the larger Sakhalin 1 project. The Arkutun-Dagi oil and gas field is located 25 km offshore Sakhalin Island in water depths ranging from 15 to 40 m. Crude oil production from ONGC's Western Offshore Fields touched 325,000 barrels oil per day (BOPD) on 3 March 2015. This was the highest production from Mumbai Offshore in five year period. On 1 April 2015, ONGC, IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited (IEDCL) and the state government of Tripura, thee three promoters of ONGC Tripura Power Company Ltd (OTPC), entered into definitive agreements with India Infrastructure Fund II by which the latter will be acquiring 23.5% stake in OTPC. The total consideration of the transaction is about Rs 426 crore. Post this transaction, the shareholding in OTPC will stand as: ONGC - 50%, IEDCL - 26%, Tripura state government 0.5% and India Infrastructure Fund II- 23.5%. This consummates the equity structure as was envisaged at the time of setting up the project. OTPC has been promoted by ONGC, IEDCL and the state government of Tripura for implementation of a gas based 726.6 MW combined cycle thermal power project at Palatana, Tripura. The project was conceived to utilize the stranded gas reserves of ONGC found in the state of Tripura so as to aid in the economic progress of the north-eastern (NE) states. The project is backed by a long term gas supply agreement with ONGC, while the power off-take is tied up on long term basis with the 7 north-eastern states. ONGC mobilized its Crisis Management Team (CMT) and all resources at its command to control the fire which broke out around 12.30 PM on 18 April 2015 in an onshore well in Olpad area 80 km away from Ankleshwar, during repair and maintenance job. On 29 April 2015, ONGC announced that it made two hydrocarbon discoveries in April 2015. ONGC notified four hydrocarbon discoveries in Q4 March 2015, taking the total number of discoveries in the fiscal year 2014-15 to 22. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its meting held on 28 May 2015 approved investment of Rs 1881.22 crore for redevelopment of Gamij field under Stage Gate Process at Ahmedabad Asset. Gamij field, located in east of Ahmedabad city, is the first Onshore field being developed under Stage Gate Process. The project cost includes drilling of 280 wells and creation of surface facilities like Group Gathering Stations. Drilling program of well STP-1 at Satpayev block in Kazakhstan was formally launched on 7 July 2015. ONGC Videsh had acquired 25% stake in 2011 in the Satpayev Offshore block in Kazakhstan. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 280th meeting held on 28 March 2016 approved the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the development of fields falling under Cluster 2 of the Deep-water NELP Block KG-DWN-98/2. The development would involve a capital expenditure of USD 5,076.37 million (equivalent to Rs 34012 crore). The project envisages first gas to be produced by June 2019, first oil by March 2020, with overall completion in June 2020.11 On 4 September 2015, ONGC Videsh announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire up to 15% shares in CSJC Vankorneft, a company organized under the law of Russian Federation which is the owner of Vankor Field and NorthVankor license. Rosneft Oil Company, NOC of Russia holds 100% shares in Vankorneft. Vankor is Rosneft's (and Russia's) second largest field by production and accounts for 4% of Russian production. The daily production from the field is around 442,000 bpd of crude oil on an average with ONGC Videsh's share of daily oil production at about 66,000 bpd. On 22 July 2016, ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd. (OVVL), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of ONGC Videsh Limited, which itself is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of ONGC announced that it had successfully raised US$ 1 billion Notes comprising of US$ 400 million Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022 and US$ 600 million Senior Unsecured Notes due 2026 in the international capital markets. ONGC's Daman development project went live with the commencement of natural gas production from its first well C24-P4#3 on 20 August 2016. On 14 September 2016, ONGC Videsh and its wholly-owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd., Singapore (OVVL), jointly signed definitive agreements with Rosneft, the national oil company of Russia, for acquiring additional 11% shares in JSC Vankorneft, a company organized under the law of Russian Federation which is the owner of Vankor Field and North Vankor license. After the closing of the transaction, ONGC Videsh will raise its participation share in Vankorneft to 26%. Earlier, ONGC Videsh had successfully closed the acquisition of 15% shareholding interest on 31 May 2016. Vankor is Rosneft's (and Russia's) second largest field by production and accounts for 4% of Russian production. The daily production from the field is around 421,000 bpd of crude oil on an average and together with earlier acquisition of 15%, ONGC Videsh's share of daily oil production from Vankor will be about 110,000 bpd. On 7 December 2016, ONGC signed agreements with Schlumberger Overseas S.A. and Halliburton Offshore Services Inc for enhancement of production from its matured fields of Geleki in Assam and Kalol in Gujarat, respectively.On 24 December 2016, the Board of Directors of ONGC approved the acquisition of the entire 80% Participating Interest (PI) of GSPC along with operatorship rights in NELP-III Block KG-OSN-2001/3 (Block) in Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin offshore. ONGC will pay purchase consideration of US$ 995.26 million for the Deen Dayal West Field in the Block. ONGC will additionally pay part consideration of US$ 200 million to GSPC towards future consideration for six discoveries other than Deen Dayal West Field, which will be adjusted upon valuation of these discoveries subsequent to approval of the Field Development Plans by DGH/Management Committee of the Block.At its 290th Board meeting held on 23 February 2017, ONGC Board approved development of five projects with an aggregate investment of Rs 7327 crore which will lead to production of 14.969 MMT of oil and 2.972 BCM of gas. On 7 March 2017, ONGC Petro additions Ltd's (OPaL) petrochemical plant at Dahej in Gujarat was dedicated to the nation by India's Prime Minister. OPaL is a joint venture company promoted by ONGC, GAIL and GSPC, implementing a grass root integrated petrochemical complex located in Special Economic Zone (SEZ) under Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) at Dahej, Gujarat. The company was incorporated on 15 November 2006.On 5 May 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that it has encountered exciting result in its well Mariposa-1 which is under drilling in CPO-5 block of Colombia. ONGC Videsh is the operator of the block and holds 70% participating interest and Amerisur Resources holds the remaining 30%.On 29 April 2017, ONGC announced that it made 23 hydrocarbon discoveries in the year ended 31 March 2017 (FY 2017) compared with 17 discoveries in the year ended 31 March 2016 FY 2016. Out of 23 discoveries, 13 discoveries were made onland and 10 in offshore. Out of 13 onland discoveries, 9 were monetized during the year itself having a potential of 0.218 MMTOE per year. On 14 September 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that the Consortium partners of the giant ACG Fields in Azerbaijan have entered into an agreement with Azerbaijan Government and State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) for extension of duration of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for Azeri-Chirag-Deep water portion of Gunashli (ACG) oil fields until 31 December 2049. ONGC Videsh holds a participating interest in ACG oil fields in the Azerbaijan Sector of Caspian Sea. The agreement is subject to ratification by the Parliament (Milli Majlis) of the Republic of Azerbaijan.On 5 October 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that it has completed the acquisition of 30% Participating Interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0037 for Blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B and related agreements (License), Offshore Namibia from Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc.ONGC Videsh through its wholly owned indirect subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd. (OVVL) signed definitive binding agreements with Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc, on 20 November 2017 for acquiring 15% participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0030 for Block 2012A and related agreements (License) from Tullow's existing participating interest of 25% in the License. Eco Oil and Gas Namibia (Pty) Ltd. with 32.5% Participating interest, Azimuth Namibia Limited with 32.5% participating interest and National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Pty) Ltd with 10% participating interest are other partners in the License. The License is currently under First Renewal Exploration Period and the joint venture partners are carrying out data evaluation for identifying a drill prospect. In a major development, ONGC's Board of Directors at its meeting held on 19 January 2018 considered the proposal and approved acquisition of Government of India's (GoI) entire 51.11% shareholding in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) at a cash purchase consideration of Rs 473.97 per share with a total acquisition cost of Rs 36915 crore. On 20 January 2018, ONGC entered into a share purchase agreement with GoI for the acquisition of 51.11% of HPCL which has a strong presence in refining and marketing of petroleum products in the country.On 12 February 2018, ONGC announced that an Indian consortium led by its wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm ONGC Videsh, BPRL & IOCL have signed a pact for acquisition of 10% participating interest in the ADNOC Group owned offshore Lower Zakum Concession for 40 years from 2018 to 2057. This is the first time that Indian oil & gas companies have been given a stake in the development of Abu Dhabi's hydrocarbon resources. Sixty percent of the participating interest will be retained by ADNOC and the rest will be awarded to other international oil companies. Lower Zakum is one of three separate offshore concession areas that were formerly part of the ADMA offshore concession. The company holds the largest exploration acreage in India as an operator. As on 31.03.2019, ONGC holds a total of 9 Nomination PEL blocks (36853.55 Km2 ), 345 Nomination PML blocks (55802.41 Km2 ) and 1 Pre-NELP blocks (892.0 Km2 ). In NELP regime, your company has 25 PEL covering an area of 22534.29 Km2 . It also holds 9 PMLs (Area: 1265.47 Km2 including 5 PMLs in Gujarat, 1 PML in Andhra Pradesh, 2 in Shallow water and 1 deep-water PML,) carved out from NELP blocks. Besides, ONGC as non-operator has PI in 2 blocks (Area: 567.00 Km2 ) as Non-operator Exploration acreages (blocks). In addition, ONGC also holds 2 blocks as Operator under OALP-I round covering an area of 1456 Km2 . Also as non-operator, it has 3 acreages covering an area of 1558 Km2 . During the year 2018-19, your Company has made 13 discoveries (5 in NELP, 7 in Nomination acreages). Of these, 6 are new prospects and 7 are new pool discoveries. As on 01.04.2019, accretion to In-Place Hydrocarbons (3P-Proved, Probable and Possible), from the Company operated fields in India, stood at 137.05 MMtoe, out of which about 70 per cent accretion has been due to exploratory efforts. Total in-place reserve accretion during 2018-19 in domestic basins, including the Company's share in PSC JVs, stands at 157.30 MMtoe (20.25 MMtoe from JVs). During the fiscal 2019, the company has been ranked 197 in the coveted Fortune Global 500 list. This ranking has come on the back of robust fiscal and physical performance in FY2018. The Company has been ranked fifth globally in the mining and crude oil production' industry category. The company maintained its First Position globally in the industry category 'Oil and Gas Exploration and Production' and achieved overall ranking of 21st position in the Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings-2018. The company has been adjudged the winner in the 'Oil and Gas Exploration' category of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards 2018. The company has been conferred with INFRA Icon Award in the 'Global Energy' category at the midday INFRA Icons Awards 2018. The Company in recognition of its efforts for promoting Oil & Gas Conservation during 'Saksham 2018' was honoured with the award for best overall performance in the 'Upstream Sector' at the inaugural function of 'Sanrakhsan Kshamta Mahotsav-2019' (Saksham-2019). Uran Processing Plant of the company was adjudged the BBS Award Winner in Petrochemical categoryat the Third Annual National Conference 2019 on BBS, New Delhi. The company spent Rs 2,94,498 million for various Capex initiatives in the FY2019. The Board of Directors of the company, at the 312th meeting held on 20 December 2018 approved the proposal for buy-back of equity shares of the Company upto 252,955,974 fully paid-up equity shares at the price of Rs 159/- per equity share payable in cash for an aggregate consideration not exceeding Rs 40,220 million. The buy-back offer worked out to 2.50% of the net-worth of the Company as on 31 March 2017 and 2.34% as on 31 March 2018. The Company has completed the buy-back of 252,955,974 fully paid-up equity shares on 22 February 2019. As on 31.03.2020, ONGC holds a total of 7 Nomination PEL blocks (5106.05 Km2 ), 358 Nomination PML blocks (Long Term: 327 and Short Term (7 year): 31) having an acreage area of 54,321.75 Km2 and 1 Pre-NELP block (892.0 Km2 ). In NELP regime, your company has 23 active NELP blocks comprising 21,126.17 Km2 of PEL area and 10 PMLs carved out from NELP blocks with an acreage area of 1380.78 Km2 (5 PMLs in Gujarat, 1 PML in Andhra Pradesh, 3 in shallow water and 1 deep-water PML). Besides, ONGC as non-operator has participative interest (PI) in 2 blocks having acreages area of 567.00 Km2. In addition, ONGC also holds 17 OALP blocks (13 on-land, 3 shallow water and 1 deep-water areas) covering an area of 33,572.73 Km2 awarded till the end of OALP-IV bidding round. Also as non-operator, it has 3 OALP acreages covering an area of 1558 Km2 . In DSF-II round, your company was also awarded 5 contract areas with PML acreage area of 946.81 Km2. During the year 2019-20, your Company has notified 12 discoveries (7 New Prospects and 5 New Pools) in its nomination acreages. ONGC bagged S&P Platts Global Energy Award 2019 for Corporate Social Responsibility - Diversified Program. This award is a testimony to the extraordinary contributions as a corporate citizen in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) domain. The company received the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industries (FIPI) Oil & Gas Exploration Company of the Year 2019 Award. ONGC has bagged the First runner-up Diversity & Inclusion Award 2019' in Best Employer for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category. This award was given under Large Category' during a Conference-cum-Awards on Diversity & Inclusion ceremony organized by ASSOCHAM at New Delhi. Hazira Plant received the 'Grow-care India OHS Award 2019' in Platinum Category for the year 2019. Swachh Bharat Puraskar, 2019 conferred by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) for quality contributions to Swachh Bharat Mission since 2014 During FY2020, three major projects (MHNRD PhaseIV, HRP-III, PRP-VI) with an investment of Rs 64,874 Million and envisaged oil and gas gain of 13.62 MMTOE were approved. As on 01.04.2020, 17 major projects were under implementation with envisaged gain of about 121 MMTOE. We also realize the need to maximize recovery from our existing legacy fields. We envisage a cumulative gain of over 200 MMT of oil from the 31 approved Increased Oil Recovery (IOR)/Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) schemes. The Government's policy incentive in this regard provides a timely fillip for moving ahead with more Enhanced Recovery projects. Under this policy, ONGC has planned commercialization of 5 EOR schemes and implementation of 3 EOR pilots. Further, it has initiated process for fast-track pilot design of the Chemical EOR in 12 onshore reservoirs of 7 fields. In FY2020, ONGC spent Rs 2,95,385 million towards various Capex initiatives.

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Chairman Speech

Dear Shareholders,

As you read this, the world, more specifically humanity, is in the midst of the most severe humanitarian crisis in over a century. Since it first broke out in late 2019, COVID-19 pandemic today has drastically disrupted our life. It has invariably become the de-facto context in which all discussions of the present and most near-term planning are based. However, we in the energy industry know that every such crisis also brings an opportunity for growth and a trigger for human ingenuity and collaboration. Interestingly, the situation has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies across all facets of our operations and we, at ONGC, see that as a ‘big positive'. We believe that soon the world will come out of this challenging situation stronger and wiser with sustainability and human equity as key elements of the new growth narrative. At this hour of crisis, your Company salutes the tireless dedication and incredible courage of all the frontline workers fighting this crisis – the medical community, sanitation workers, essential service providers and law enforcement agencies. This highly uncertain stretch offers an opportunity for individuals and organizations that excel at crafting solutions. Over the years, energy has been central to our pursuit of devising, driving and deploying those solutions at scale. As one of the country's leading energy entities and its foremost energy explorer, ONGC has been at the forefront of enabling and delivering solutions and growth to the industry. You, our valued shareholder and votary of our progress, have always been a major stakeholder in this journey. We thank you for your unstinted support through the many phases of our evolution – from solely focused on upstream oil and gas business to a diversified energy conglomerate.

The energy industry remains vital to the recovery of global economic activity. However, there is wide-ranging uncertainty on the shape of things to come within the industry as multiple forces are at play – be it globalconsensusonclimatechangeandsustainability, energy efficiency improvements, growing consumer awareness, volatility in international trade relations and technological disruptions. The ongoing global pandemic has added further layers of complexity to the already dynamic environment.

As a significant player in the country's energy arena, ONGC is engaged in numerous developments that may potentially impact the sector. The focus is on building the business along pathways that will align with its core expertise areas as well as help ONGC build a portfolio that will be adaptive to the future energy ecosystem. Prices have always been a key determinant of the economic health of the sector. Considering the prevailing lower crude oil and gas prices, it becomes imperative that we continue to grow while balancing the need to ensure all investments are value-accretive and sustainable over the long-term. Energy Strategy 2040, our long-term strategic blueprint, which we adopted last year clearly spells out this vision of looking at the future not merely from the standpoint of energy security but value-creation point of view as well.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of your Company, I now present to you the Company's Annual Report for the financial year 2019-20 [FY'20].

ONGC registered another robust year of performance in FY'20, notwithstanding the unpredictability in global energy markets and a turbulent final quarter marked by the onset of COVID-19. Operational performance was comparable to that in FY'19, while financials were a reflection of the low oil and gas prices in global markets.

It was another positive year in terms of reserve accretion – with more reserves being entered in the books than our annual hydrocarbon production. In all, your Company made 12 discoveries – 7 onshore and 5 offshore. 2P Reserve accretion stood at 53.21 Million tonne oil equivalent (MMTOE) with a Reserve Replacement Ratio (RRR) of 1.19. We are now equally focused on timeline of monetization as we are on the count or volume of the discoveries. We are aggressively scouting for un-appraised areas or layers within our mature Basins and focusing on near-field appraisal which will allow us to leverage nearby/ existing infrastructure for co-developing such finds.

Further as an NOC, we are also expanding our exploratory footprint in virgin or under-explored areas and data gathered from such pursuits will boost the nation's hydrocarbon prospects. To sustain the path-breaking momentum we achieved in the Vindhyans and Bengal Basins, ONGC is determinedly pursuing acquisition of areas around those areas. We were awarded 15 blocks in different OALP bidding rounds throughout FY'20 – 7 in the latest OALP-IV round. You will be happy to know that ONGC monetized 22 fresh discoveries during FY'20, out of which 4 were discovered in the fiscal year itself.

Production of oil and gas of your Company stand-alone was at 44.57 MMTOE, while the same including our share in Joint Venture projects stood at 48.25 MMTOE. Production of Value-added products stood at 3.55 MMT.

The trend of increasing onshore oil output in the past 4 years is a big positive vis--vis the mature fields that are driving the volumes. First gas from our deepwater gas project – Cluster 2 of KG DWN 98/2 field started in March 2020. In FY'20, your Company produced over three-quarters of the country's oil and gas output. As a Maharatna National Oil Company, your Company remains committed to augmenting production of oil and gas to boost the country's energy security. During FY'20, three major projects (MHNRD Phase-IV, HRP-III, PRP-VI) with an investment of Rs 64,874 Million and envisaged oil and gas gain of 13.62 MMTOE were approved. As on 01.04.2020, 17 major projects were under implementation with envisaged gain of about 121 MMTOE. We also realize the need to maximize recovery from our existing legacy fields. We envisage a cumulative gain of over 200 MMT of oil from the 31 approved Increased Oil Recovery (IOR)/Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) schemes. The Government's policy incentive in this regard provides a timely fillip for moving ahead with more Enhanced Recovery projects. Under this policy, ONGC has planned commercialization of 5 EOR schemes and implementation of 3 EOR pilots. Further, it has initiated process for fast-track pilot design of the Chemical EOR in 12 onshore reservoirs of 7 fields.

Our drilling performance remained impressive. We drilled 500 wells making it the fourth consecutive year that 500 or more wells were drilled in a year. Strong operational performance consistently over the years justifies our commitment to robust capital outlays for the business. In FY'20, our capex stood at

Rs 295,385 Million. Over the last 5 years, our cumulative E&P spend is close to Rs 1,500 Billion – a period that witnessed significant cutbacks in investments by most players in the sector – global as well as domestic – due to the uncertain price regime and a secular slowdown in economic activity. This reaffirms our belief in the long-term prospects of the domestic upstream space while delivering on our mandate as the NOC to avert build-up of large-scale strain in the energy sector on account of investment freeze. But the current slowdown is a matter of concern. While ONGC views any price of an oil barrel in the range of $40-$50 as ‘acceptable', it still poses significant cash flow risks. What further heightens this risk is the concurrent slump in domestic gas prices. Moreover, in view of the extant threat of COVID-19 and a slow economic revival, a sudden drop in prices remains a very real possibility in the near-term. Though low prices augur well for country's trade balance on the back of forex savings, it undermines the growth outlook for domestic upstream sector as commerciality of their projects comes under risk. The need to buffer our balance sheet under these circumstances is a key priority of the management. So, we are rationalizing our expenses for the current fiscal, i.e. FY'21 through various expenditure reduction measures. This ensures our core portfolio is not affected and capital is not a constraint for key ongoing projects, but commitments for projects higher on the cost curve and with longer timelines are being either deferred or optimized. I would also like to highlight the operational preparedness of ONGC at this point. While there is no ‘fail-safe' readymade template for the exceptional situation triggered by the pandemic, your Company's positive response in this testing period exemplifies its ‘nation-building' character. Even as the country went under lockdown beginning last week of March, ONGC maintained critical supplies of oil and gas for the country notwithstanding the severe logistical and supply constraints while minimizing the risks faced by ‘our' people (ONGCians as well as our contractual staff). Operational revenues for FY'20 stood at Rs 962,136 Million, while Profit-After-Tax (PAT) was Rs 134,445 Million. The Company realized US$58.61/bbl for domestic crude in FY'20 compared to US$68.19/bbl in FY'19. While the decline in revenues is largely a factor of lower crude prices, the significant drop in net profit was on account of exceptional item towards impairment loss of about Rs 49,000 Million in the final quarter to factor into estimated future crude oil and natural gas prices. It may be mentioned that the impairment is a temporary adjustment in the book value to reflect future price outlook and which may get reversed in future if the prices recover.

We also made a dividend pay-out of Rs 62,901 Million to all our shareholders with a pay-out ratio of 56% (including dividend distribution tax). Our healthy dividend record over the years is a testament of our commitment to value-creation along with business growth.

On international E&P frontier, markets have weathered a rough year on account of global trade tensions, lower demand on account of general economic slowdown, oversupplied gas markets and adverse fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, our international arm and 100% subsidiary, ONGC Videsh, registered a good year in its overseas operations. ONGC Videsh produced its highest-ever 14.98 MMTOE of oil and gas in FY'20. Today, ONGC Videsh is invested in 37 projects across 17 countries. The future looks promising for ONGC Videsh in view of the significant developments during FY'20 in some of its key investments. Notable among them are the decision to build the 6.2 MMTPA Far-East LNG project in Sakhalin-I in Russia, project commencement of Azeri-Central East project in Azerbaijan and the FID on the Rovuma Area-1 LNG project in Mozambique. Consolidated Turnover and PAT (attributable to owners) for ONGC Videsh during FY'20 stood at Rs 155,383 Million and Rs 4,540 Million.

Beyond E&P, performance of our business across the value-chain remained strong. HPCL, the country's second largest oil marketer and a Maharatna NOC, registered an impressive refining performance in FY'20. During FY'20, HPCL refineries achieved combined refining throughput of 17.18 Million Tonnes (MMT) with capacity utilization of 109%. Both the Refineries of HPCL were up-graded to produce BS-VI compliant transportation fuels. Lower Refinery throughput compared to FY'19 was mainly due to planned shutdowns required for upgradation of the refineries for BS-VI fuel. HPCL achieved the highest-ever sales volume of 39.6 MMT. It further consolidated its position in the domestic retail space by setting up a record 1,194 new retail outlets in the year. Gross Revenue during the financial year was Rs 2,874,169 Million and PAT for the year stood at Rs 26,373 Million.

MRPL, the other refinery of your Company, achieved a throughput of 14.14 MMT in FY'20. Less throughput was mainly due to unprecedented water scarcity during first quarter and minor landslide after an intense monsoon during second quarter of the year. It was also impacted by COVID-19 in the last quarter. However, MRPL also commenced production of BS-VI grade Motor Spirit and High-Speed Diesel. MRPL registered a turnover of Rs 6,07,515 million and registered a Net Loss of Rs 27,076 million.

In the petchem vertical, ONGC Petro additions Ltd (OPaL) operated at average 88% capacity in FY'20. It aggregated more than 1.6 Million Tonnes of polymer and chemical sales. Its total income stood at Rs 102,071 Million while incurred a Loss of Rs 20,897 Million. Capacity utilisation at ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) for FY'20 stood at 80%. The petchem unit also added two products to its revenue stream - export of Paraffinic Raffinate and sale of Heavy Aromatics. However, financials were severely affected due to unprecedented fall in International prices of Para-Xylene and Benzene. In the power segment, ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) recorded total income of Rs 12,765 Million while netting a Net Profit of Rs 705 Million during FY'20. The largest Indian Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project, OTPC meets 35% of all power requirements of the North-eastern states of our country.

Your Company is transforming itself to not only just reduce the exposure of our Group to sectoral pricing risks, but also position it well for the impending global Energy Transition. Our strategic blueprint for the future – Energy Strategy 2040 - clearly spells out that intent in its vision statement. Oil and gas will continue to remain mainstreamed in our plans but there is substantial scope for growth in areas beyond E&P. We are targeting scaling up our Renewables capacity to 5 GW and also plan to explore CGD/ regas through units within our Group. Energy Strategy 2040 has prioritized opportunities in core E&P business as well, such as (i) select difficult plays (HP-HT, Deep/Ultra-deepwater), (ii) in-house EOR solutions for production maximization, (iii) plays with volume in host countries that share positive G2G relations for long-term security of supplies. Among the emerging opportunities, we should focus more on those with shorter business cycles and lower breakeven costs. To achieve the goals, we are also considering strategic restructuring of the organization to leverage internal synergies and to respond better to new opportunities. One such ambitious project with objective of creating a "Future Ready Organization" is the "Integrated Shared Service Centre and Beyond" which will not only change the way of working but the structure of organization too. The project envisages shared & integrated services across HR, Finance & Accounts, Materials Management and Infocom functions to begin with and will be subsequently extended to field services like drilling, well services, logging, workover etc. along with high performance computing in exploration.

Beyond operations, ONGC has also stayed true to its guiding business philosophy of growth with equity and justice through its comprehensive CSR program. In FY'20, our CSR spend was Rs 6,070 Million, making it the fourth consecutive year that our CSR expenditure has surpassed Rs 5,000 Million. During the exceptional times of COVID-19, where people on the margins are rendered more vulnerable, ONGC has stepped in with massive efforts to support them. In addition to contributing Rs 3,000 Million to the PM Cares Fund, we executed CSR projects worth Rs 200 Million benefitting more than 2.6 Million fellow countrymen through distribution of food/ masks/PPE kits/sanitizers and funding of ventilators in hospitals. Employees of your Company also voluntarily contributed about Rs 300 Million from their salaries over four months. It reflects the heart and spirit of your Company and reaffirms our enduring commitment to the ‘Nation First' motto. Your Company is committed to conduct the business in a legal, ethical and transparent manner and observes highest standards of corporate governance. Accordingly, your Company has been continously rated "Excellent" grade for its compliances with the DPE Guidelines on corporate governance. Here, I would like to acknowledge the continuing support and guidance of the Government of India, especially our administrative Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, on matters pertaining to the country's energy security as well as the sovereign development agenda. As a National Energy Company, we remain committed to developing the business and facilitating our country's progress, ensuring that the benefits of growth reach more and more people of our country. The Company appreciates your enduring support as it navigates its way to the future energy landscape. A journey that is in its seventh decade now would not have been possible without your steadfast belief in our vision of ‘Energy'. I thank you for having chosen us and remaining as valued partners in the business throughout all these years. My final words of appreciation go for the 30,000 strong ONGCians – the bedrock – the heart and soul of the grand superstructure that we all see. They are our country's energy soldiers. Especially now, at this difficult hour of crisis, when the country contends with a pandemic, many of them went beyond their call of duty in field sites, offshore and onshore, away from family battling many struggles, to ensure ONGC continues to do what it does best – produce energy that keeps the country moving. It is the corporate values of courage, equity and passion that inspire our march towards a tomorrow rich in energy and possibilities. We are optimistic that very soon, the world will be a better place; COVID-19 will be behind us and we will continue toward building our future with greater zeal and enthusiasm.

Jai Hind!
	Sd/-
	Shashi Shanker
	Chairman and Managing Director

   

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Company History

Maharatna Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is the largest crude oil and natural gas Company in India, contributing around 75% to Indian domestic production. Crude oil is the raw material used by downstream companies like IOC, BPCL, and HPCL (subsidiary of ONGC) to produce petroleum products like Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, and Cooking Gas-LPG. The Government of India (GoI) held 60.41% stake in ONGC as on 31 December 2020. This largest natural gas company ranks 11th among global energy majors (Platts). It is the only public sector Indian company to feature in Fortune's Most Admired Energy Companies' list. ONGC ranks 18th in Oil and Gas operations' and 220 overall in Forbes Global 2000. ONGC's wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm ONGC Videsh is India's largest international oil and gas E&P Company with 39 projects in 18 countries including Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Myanmar, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Venezuela, Vietnam, New Zealand and Namibia. ONGC Videsh is currently producing about 285,000 barrels of oil and oil equivalent gas per day and has total oil and gas reserves (2P) of about 704 mmtoe as on 1 April 2017. ONGC was set up under the visionary leadership of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Pandit Nehru reposed faith in Shri Keshav Dev Malviya who laid the foundation of ONGC in the form of Oil and Gas division, under Geological Survey of India, in 1955. A few months later, it was converted into an Oil and Natural Gas Directorate. The Directorate was converted into Commission and christened Oil & Natural Gas Commission on 14 August 1956. In 1994, Oil and Natural Gas Commission was converted in to a Corporation, and in 1997 it was recognized as one of the Navratnas by the Government of India. Subsequently, it was conferred with Maharatna status in the year 2010. On 28 March 2003, ONGC acquired the entire shareholding of A.V. Birla Group in Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) and further infused equity capital of Rs 600 crore thus making MRPL a majority held subsidiary of ONGC. Before acquisition by ONGC in March 2003, MRPL was a joint venture oil refinery promoted by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a public sector company, and IRIL & associates (AV Birla Group). During March 1999, ONGC, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) agreed to have cross holding in each other's stock to pave the way for Long-term strategic alliance amongst themselves for the domestic and overseas business opportunities in the energy value chain. The ONGIO International Pvt Ltd was incorporated in the year 2001 as 50:50 joint venture projects with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd with aim of providing Training, Consultancy & Services in Hydrocarbon Sector and later company has decided to wind up ONGIO due to loss. During 2001-02 the augment recovery from onshore fields of 13 projects 2 were resourcefully commissioned. By the end of the same year 2001-02 the company 's subsidiary unit ONGC Videsh Ltd commenced its commercial production of gas. In the year of 2004, ONGC initiated Phase-I of a collaborative project on CBM in Jharia Field and successfully completed the same in 2005. During 2004-05 the company discovered its third deep-water exploration campaign 'Sagar Samriddhi' in Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin at the location Vashistha (VA-1A) in block KG-OS-DW-IV. In the western offshore a shallow-water oil and gas was recorded in D-33, about 60 Kilometers South-West of Mumbai High, Onshore. Oil and Gas was found in Tiphuk-1 in North Assam Shelf and Oil was struck at Wamaj in Cambay Basin. Offshore, four new Platforms (2 Well Platforms, 1 Process Platforms and 1 Clamp-on) were commissioned for enhancing production. In March 2005, ONGC launched its retail marketing business with commissioning of its first auto fuel outlet at Manglore under the brand 'ONGC Values' and 'Shopp'njoy' for fuel and non-fuel business respectively. The company also received approval/license from the Government for marketing of non-subsidised LPG cooking gas, Kerosene and Aviation refueling sales. Tripura Power Development Company Pvt Ltd (TPDCL) was incorporated to set up a gas-based power-generating project in Tripura. TPDCL was later renamed as ONGC Tripura Power Company Pvt Ltd. In the same year the company entered into various alliances in form of execution of Memorandum of Understanding with Kakinada Seaport & IL&FS with 26% equity stake for development of Port based SEZ at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. During the year 2006 the company was awarded 60 out of 110 exploration blocks by the Government in the five NELP rounds. In December 2009, the company entered into two broad enabling agreements with Iranian authorities for participation in development of gas fields and liquefaction facilities in Iran, in return for assured minimum 6 million tonne LNG per annum on long term basis. Also, ONGC Videsh entered into a non exclusive memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of jointly studying and if mutually agreed, to participate in attractive oil and gas assets in Russia and third countries. In June 2010, Stealth Ventures Ltd entered into a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) with the company to evaluate emerging Unconventional Resource plays and opportunities in India. The objective of the JSA is to identify the unconventional resource plays within India, and a high priority has been given by both parties, to identify high growth profile shale gas and CBM prospects, on the basis of the large database available within ONGC. In December 2010, the company's subsidiary, ONGC Videsh Ltd signed a Framework Agreement on Cooperation in Hydrocarbon Sector in Delhi with Sistema, a public financial corporation in Russia and CIS. On 3 January 2011, the managements of ONGC and GAIL (India) reached a landmark understanding for mutual business growth covering natural gas as well as petrochemicals. As regards the understanding reached for gas business, both companies would work together for exclusive sale of natural gas produced by ONGC from its various fields to GAIL during next 3 years. This joint initiative will serve as a catalyst for effective monetization of gas from future E&P fields of ONGC, with GAIL providing the infrastructure and marketing tie-up for supply to potential customers. The two companies also reached an understanding in swapping gas available to both the companies so as to optimise the logistics and costs. As regards the understanding reached for the petrochemicals business, GAIL has formally agreed to become a co-promoter of 1.1 MMTPA Ethylene Cracker Petrochemical complex, under implementation in Dahej SEZ area at a capital investment of Rs19535 crore. ONGC is implanting this mega projects through its unit ONGC Petro additions Ltd (OPaL). An understanding was also reached for marketing of a portion of petrochemical products of OPaL by GAIL. GAIL and ONGC would also explore the possibility of setting up a downstream unit using Butadiene, a by-product of OPaL, to GAIL for manufacture of value-added products. On 21 January 2011, ONGC activated its emergency response measures immediately on detection of a leakage at its Mumbai Uran Trunk (MUT) oil pipeline. ONGC created an exploration landmark when gas flowed out from the Barren Measure shale at a depth of around 1700 m., in its first R & D well RNSG-1 near Durgapur at Icchapur, West Bengal on 25 January 2011. Shale gas is one of the predominant unconventional natural gas and major source of onland gas particularly in US and Canada. While noting two impressive discoveries (Exploratory Well B-127E-1 in Panna Formation to the east of B-127 area and North Kadi-472 (NKXV) in the Mandhali member of Kadi formation), ONGC's Board of Directors at its 225th Board Meeting held on 1 December 2011 also approved the integrated development of B-127 cluster along with the Additional Development of B-55 field. B-127 cluster comprises of three marginal fields namely; B-127, B-157 and B-59. The cluster is located east of Mumbai High with significant hydrocarbon accumulations in multi-layered reservoirs within Bassein and Panna formations. The estimated capital expenditure for the integrated development of B-127 cluster with additional development of B-55 field was pegged at Rs 2059.63 crore. A landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for hydrocarbon cooperation was signed between ONGC and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on 18 June 2012. Under the MoU, the two oil giants agreed to foster their cooperation either directly or through their subsidiaries by expanding cooperation in upstream E&P areas, refining or processing of crude oil and natural gas in midstream or downstream projects, marketing and distribution of petroleum products and construction and operation of oil and gas pipelines. The areas of cooperation between ONGC and CNPC will also extend to joint participation in suitable hydrocarbon projects in other countries of interest by exchanging information and working for mutual growth and benefit by extending cooperation in hydrocarbon sectors globally. On 29 June 2012, ONGC announced that the United Nations body on Climate Change has issued a massive kitty of 121,207 carbon credits to ONGC's 51 megawatt wind power project at Bhuj (Gujarat) on 7 June 2012. On 11 August 2012, ONGC announced that it had struck third largest reservoir in Western Offshore. On 8 September 2012, ONGC Videsh signed definitive agreements for the acquisition of Hess Corporation's 2.7213% participating interest in the Azeri, Chirag and the Deep Water Portion of Guneshli Fields in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea (ACG) and 2.36% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC), for US$ 1 Billion. On 5 November 2012, ONGC announced that Japan's largest oil company INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) has acquired a 26% participating interest farmed-out by ONGC in the exploration block KG-DWN-2004/6, located in the deep waters of Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal. ONGC continues as operator of the block with a 34% participating interest in consortium with existing partners GAIL (India) Limited (10%), Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited (10%), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (10%) and Oil India Limited (10%). On 18 March 2013, ONGC with its consortium partners BPCL and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) for setting up a Re-gasification LNG terminal at New Mangalore Port. The consortium will carry out a feasibility study for a terminal of 2-3 MMTPA capacity, expandable to 5 MMTPA. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 241st meeting held on 20 March 2013 took note of three significant hydrocarbon discoveries and also accorded approval for investment of over Rs 4050 crore to upgrade western offshore facilities on the Arabian Sea through two major projects. On 1 April 2013, ONGC Videsh announced the completion of acquisition of Hess Corporation's 2.7213% participating interest in the Azeri, Chirag and the Deep Water Portion of Guneshli Fields (ACG) in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea and 2.36% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC). Earlier, on 7 September 2012, ONGC Videsh and Hess had entered into definitive agreements and subsequently all relevant government and regulatory approvals were received. On 9 April 2013, ONGC inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. (CFCL) and the state government of Tripura for setting up a urea fertilizer project in Tripura. On 28 July 2013, ONGC announced that it has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to explore the possibility of sharing the latter's infrastructural facility in the East Coast. On 14 October 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that the company through its affiliates signed definitive agreements to acquire additional 12% Participating Interest (PI) in Block BC-10, Campos Basin, Deep Offshore Brazil as part of the sale of 35% share made by Petrobras. ONGC Videsh had earlier acquired 15% PI in the block in 2006. On 20 November 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Petrovietnam (PVN) to promote the joint cooperation in hydrocarbon sector in Vietnam, India and other countries. On 31 December 2013, ONGC Videsh announced that the company through its affiliates has acquired an additional 12% Participating Interest (PI) in Block BC-10, a deepwater offshore block in Campos Basin, Brazil taking its total PI in the block to 27%. Shell, the operator of the block, holds the balance 73% PI in the block. On 12 February 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it has entered into separate agreements with two consortiums of international banks to raise USD 2.5 billion by way of offshore borrowings to finance its acquisition of 10% participating interest in Rovuma Area I Block in Mozambique offshore.ONGC Videsh (OVL) signed Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for two shallow water exploration blocks SS-09 & SS-04 in the Bay of Bengal of Bangladesh on 17 February 2014. OVL along with Oil India Limited (OIL) formed a consortium (50:50) and participated in the Bangladesh Offshore Bidding Round 2012, launched by Bangladesh Government during December 2012. OVL/OIL consortium was officially notified as the winner of two shallow water blocks SS-09 & SS-04 on 20 August 2013. On 28 February 2014, ONGC Videsh (OVL) announced that it had completed the acquisition of 10% participating interest (PI) in the Rovuma Area 1 offshore Block in Mozambique from Anadarko Mo ambique Area 1 Limitada (Anadarko). On the 24 August 2013, OVL signed definitive agreements with Anadarko to acquire this interest.On 14 March 2014, ONGC announced that it has acquired Government of India's (GoI) 5% stake in Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) pursuant to a decision by GoI to divest a total 10% stake in IOCL to ONGC and Oil India. ONGC paid a total consideration of Rs 2670.74 crore for acquiring 12.13 crore IOCL shares at Rs 220 per share. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 254th meeting held on 24 March 2014 accorded approval for additional development of its Vasai East Field in Arabian Sea at a total estimated capital cost of Rs 2476.82 crore.. On 27 June 2014, ONGC announced that its Board of Directors approved the proposal for redevelopment of its giant offshore field - Mumbai High (North) involving a capital investment of Rs 5706.47 crore, including foreign exchange component of Rs 4421.76 Crore (USD 743.15 Million at exchange rate of Rs. 59.50/USD). On 8 July 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it had priced US$ 1.5 Billion and Euro 525 million unsecured bonds in the international capital markets. It was the maiden offering by ONGC Videsh in the Euro bond markets. The offering was oversubscribed approximately 4.5 times in USD and 3.6 times in Euro. ONGC Videsh signed Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for two onland exploration blocks B-2 & EP-3 in Myanmar on 8 August 2014. ONGC Videsh participated in the Myanmar Onland Bidding Round 2013, launched by Myanmar Government during January 2013 and was awarded two onshore blocks namely B2 and EP-3 on 10 October 2013. On 28 August 2014, ONGC announced that it would invest Rs 5219 crore towards Daman Development project to enhance production of natural gas and condensate in its Tapti Daman Block in Arabian Sea. The investment decision was approved by the ONGC Board at its 260th neeting. The project is located about 90-100 Km from Daman coast and includes additional development of C-24 field and monetization of B-12 marginal fields (B-12-11, B-12-13 and B-12-15).ONGC Videsh and YPF S.A., the major oil producing company of Argentina, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 1 September 2014 to cooperate in the hydrocarbon sector. Under the MOU, the two companies will analyse the opportunities for cooperation in upstream sector in Argentina, India and third countries. The MOU also envisages collaboration in the areas of research & development and human resources. ONGC Videsh and Pemex-Exploracion Y Produccion (PEP), the upstream subsidiary of Pemex, the national oil company of Mexico, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MOU) on 25 September 2014 to cooperate in the hydrocarbon sector in Mexico. Under the MOU, the two companies plan to discuss future cooperation and collaboration in the upstream sector in Mexico. The MOU also envisages cooperation in the fields of technology, human resources, research & development. On 28 October 2014, ONGC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation Ltd. (PVEP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), for mutual cooperation for exploration in the NELP Blocks of ONGC in Andaman and Cauvery basins, subject to due diligence and negotiations on terms of participation. Simultaneously, ONGC Videsh signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with PVEP for mutual cooperation for exploration in Blocks 102/10 & 106/10 of PVEP and Block 128 of ONGC Videsh in offshore Vietnam, subject to due diligence and negotiations on terms of participation. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its meeting held on 14 November 2014 approved two major investment decisions valued over Rs 10600 crore for further enhancing production from its Western Offshore fields. The projects are- Redevelopment (Phase-III) of its giant offshore field - Mumbai High (South) involving a capital investment of Rs 6069 crore and Integrated Development of Mukta, Bassein and Panna Formations at an estimated capex of Rs 4620 crore. On 10 December 2014, ONGC Videsh announced that it has won an Exploration Block- 14TAR-R1 in the Taranaki offshore basin in New Zealand in the Bidding Round Block Offer-2014 by the Government of New Zealand. The bidding round was launched in April 2014 offering five offshore and three onshore release areas for competitive bidding. On 13 December 2014, ONGC notified three hydrocarbon discoveries; one in deepwater Krishna Godavari Basin, off the east coast of the country, one in Mumbai offshore Basin, off the west coast of the country and one in Cauvery basin in the southern onland part of the country. On 13 February 2015, ONGC Videsh announced that its flagship project Sakhalin 1' in Far East Russia added another feather to its crown by commencing oil production from Arkutun Dagi, the third and final field being developed as part of the larger Sakhalin 1 project. The Arkutun-Dagi oil and gas field is located 25 km offshore Sakhalin Island in water depths ranging from 15 to 40 m. Crude oil production from ONGC's Western Offshore Fields touched 325,000 barrels oil per day (BOPD) on 3 March 2015. This was the highest production from Mumbai Offshore in five year period. On 1 April 2015, ONGC, IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited (IEDCL) and the state government of Tripura, thee three promoters of ONGC Tripura Power Company Ltd (OTPC), entered into definitive agreements with India Infrastructure Fund II by which the latter will be acquiring 23.5% stake in OTPC. The total consideration of the transaction is about Rs 426 crore. Post this transaction, the shareholding in OTPC will stand as: ONGC - 50%, IEDCL - 26%, Tripura state government 0.5% and India Infrastructure Fund II- 23.5%. This consummates the equity structure as was envisaged at the time of setting up the project. OTPC has been promoted by ONGC, IEDCL and the state government of Tripura for implementation of a gas based 726.6 MW combined cycle thermal power project at Palatana, Tripura. The project was conceived to utilize the stranded gas reserves of ONGC found in the state of Tripura so as to aid in the economic progress of the north-eastern (NE) states. The project is backed by a long term gas supply agreement with ONGC, while the power off-take is tied up on long term basis with the 7 north-eastern states. ONGC mobilized its Crisis Management Team (CMT) and all resources at its command to control the fire which broke out around 12.30 PM on 18 April 2015 in an onshore well in Olpad area 80 km away from Ankleshwar, during repair and maintenance job. On 29 April 2015, ONGC announced that it made two hydrocarbon discoveries in April 2015. ONGC notified four hydrocarbon discoveries in Q4 March 2015, taking the total number of discoveries in the fiscal year 2014-15 to 22. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its meting held on 28 May 2015 approved investment of Rs 1881.22 crore for redevelopment of Gamij field under Stage Gate Process at Ahmedabad Asset. Gamij field, located in east of Ahmedabad city, is the first Onshore field being developed under Stage Gate Process. The project cost includes drilling of 280 wells and creation of surface facilities like Group Gathering Stations. Drilling program of well STP-1 at Satpayev block in Kazakhstan was formally launched on 7 July 2015. ONGC Videsh had acquired 25% stake in 2011 in the Satpayev Offshore block in Kazakhstan. The Board of Directors of ONGC at its 280th meeting held on 28 March 2016 approved the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the development of fields falling under Cluster 2 of the Deep-water NELP Block KG-DWN-98/2. The development would involve a capital expenditure of USD 5,076.37 million (equivalent to Rs 34012 crore). The project envisages first gas to be produced by June 2019, first oil by March 2020, with overall completion in June 2020.11 On 4 September 2015, ONGC Videsh announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire up to 15% shares in CSJC Vankorneft, a company organized under the law of Russian Federation which is the owner of Vankor Field and NorthVankor license. Rosneft Oil Company, NOC of Russia holds 100% shares in Vankorneft. Vankor is Rosneft's (and Russia's) second largest field by production and accounts for 4% of Russian production. The daily production from the field is around 442,000 bpd of crude oil on an average with ONGC Videsh's share of daily oil production at about 66,000 bpd. On 22 July 2016, ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd. (OVVL), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of ONGC Videsh Limited, which itself is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of ONGC announced that it had successfully raised US$ 1 billion Notes comprising of US$ 400 million Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022 and US$ 600 million Senior Unsecured Notes due 2026 in the international capital markets. ONGC's Daman development project went live with the commencement of natural gas production from its first well C24-P4#3 on 20 August 2016. On 14 September 2016, ONGC Videsh and its wholly-owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd., Singapore (OVVL), jointly signed definitive agreements with Rosneft, the national oil company of Russia, for acquiring additional 11% shares in JSC Vankorneft, a company organized under the law of Russian Federation which is the owner of Vankor Field and North Vankor license. After the closing of the transaction, ONGC Videsh will raise its participation share in Vankorneft to 26%. Earlier, ONGC Videsh had successfully closed the acquisition of 15% shareholding interest on 31 May 2016. Vankor is Rosneft's (and Russia's) second largest field by production and accounts for 4% of Russian production. The daily production from the field is around 421,000 bpd of crude oil on an average and together with earlier acquisition of 15%, ONGC Videsh's share of daily oil production from Vankor will be about 110,000 bpd. On 7 December 2016, ONGC signed agreements with Schlumberger Overseas S.A. and Halliburton Offshore Services Inc for enhancement of production from its matured fields of Geleki in Assam and Kalol in Gujarat, respectively.On 24 December 2016, the Board of Directors of ONGC approved the acquisition of the entire 80% Participating Interest (PI) of GSPC along with operatorship rights in NELP-III Block KG-OSN-2001/3 (Block) in Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin offshore. ONGC will pay purchase consideration of US$ 995.26 million for the Deen Dayal West Field in the Block. ONGC will additionally pay part consideration of US$ 200 million to GSPC towards future consideration for six discoveries other than Deen Dayal West Field, which will be adjusted upon valuation of these discoveries subsequent to approval of the Field Development Plans by DGH/Management Committee of the Block.At its 290th Board meeting held on 23 February 2017, ONGC Board approved development of five projects with an aggregate investment of Rs 7327 crore which will lead to production of 14.969 MMT of oil and 2.972 BCM of gas. On 7 March 2017, ONGC Petro additions Ltd's (OPaL) petrochemical plant at Dahej in Gujarat was dedicated to the nation by India's Prime Minister. OPaL is a joint venture company promoted by ONGC, GAIL and GSPC, implementing a grass root integrated petrochemical complex located in Special Economic Zone (SEZ) under Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) at Dahej, Gujarat. The company was incorporated on 15 November 2006.On 5 May 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that it has encountered exciting result in its well Mariposa-1 which is under drilling in CPO-5 block of Colombia. ONGC Videsh is the operator of the block and holds 70% participating interest and Amerisur Resources holds the remaining 30%.On 29 April 2017, ONGC announced that it made 23 hydrocarbon discoveries in the year ended 31 March 2017 (FY 2017) compared with 17 discoveries in the year ended 31 March 2016 FY 2016. Out of 23 discoveries, 13 discoveries were made onland and 10 in offshore. Out of 13 onland discoveries, 9 were monetized during the year itself having a potential of 0.218 MMTOE per year. On 14 September 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that the Consortium partners of the giant ACG Fields in Azerbaijan have entered into an agreement with Azerbaijan Government and State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) for extension of duration of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for Azeri-Chirag-Deep water portion of Gunashli (ACG) oil fields until 31 December 2049. ONGC Videsh holds a participating interest in ACG oil fields in the Azerbaijan Sector of Caspian Sea. The agreement is subject to ratification by the Parliament (Milli Majlis) of the Republic of Azerbaijan.On 5 October 2017, ONGC Videsh announced that it has completed the acquisition of 30% Participating Interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0037 for Blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B and related agreements (License), Offshore Namibia from Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc.ONGC Videsh through its wholly owned indirect subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd. (OVVL) signed definitive binding agreements with Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc, on 20 November 2017 for acquiring 15% participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0030 for Block 2012A and related agreements (License) from Tullow's existing participating interest of 25% in the License. Eco Oil and Gas Namibia (Pty) Ltd. with 32.5% Participating interest, Azimuth Namibia Limited with 32.5% participating interest and National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Pty) Ltd with 10% participating interest are other partners in the License. The License is currently under First Renewal Exploration Period and the joint venture partners are carrying out data evaluation for identifying a drill prospect. In a major development, ONGC's Board of Directors at its meeting held on 19 January 2018 considered the proposal and approved acquisition of Government of India's (GoI) entire 51.11% shareholding in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) at a cash purchase consideration of Rs 473.97 per share with a total acquisition cost of Rs 36915 crore. On 20 January 2018, ONGC entered into a share purchase agreement with GoI for the acquisition of 51.11% of HPCL which has a strong presence in refining and marketing of petroleum products in the country.On 12 February 2018, ONGC announced that an Indian consortium led by its wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm ONGC Videsh, BPRL & IOCL have signed a pact for acquisition of 10% participating interest in the ADNOC Group owned offshore Lower Zakum Concession for 40 years from 2018 to 2057. This is the first time that Indian oil & gas companies have been given a stake in the development of Abu Dhabi's hydrocarbon resources. Sixty percent of the participating interest will be retained by ADNOC and the rest will be awarded to other international oil companies. Lower Zakum is one of three separate offshore concession areas that were formerly part of the ADMA offshore concession. The company holds the largest exploration acreage in India as an operator. As on 31.03.2019, ONGC holds a total of 9 Nomination PEL blocks (36853.55 Km2 ), 345 Nomination PML blocks (55802.41 Km2 ) and 1 Pre-NELP blocks (892.0 Km2 ). In NELP regime, your company has 25 PEL covering an area of 22534.29 Km2 . It also holds 9 PMLs (Area: 1265.47 Km2 including 5 PMLs in Gujarat, 1 PML in Andhra Pradesh, 2 in Shallow water and 1 deep-water PML,) carved out from NELP blocks. Besides, ONGC as non-operator has PI in 2 blocks (Area: 567.00 Km2 ) as Non-operator Exploration acreages (blocks). In addition, ONGC also holds 2 blocks as Operator under OALP-I round covering an area of 1456 Km2 . Also as non-operator, it has 3 acreages covering an area of 1558 Km2 . During the year 2018-19, your Company has made 13 discoveries (5 in NELP, 7 in Nomination acreages). Of these, 6 are new prospects and 7 are new pool discoveries. As on 01.04.2019, accretion to In-Place Hydrocarbons (3P-Proved, Probable and Possible), from the Company operated fields in India, stood at 137.05 MMtoe, out of which about 70 per cent accretion has been due to exploratory efforts. Total in-place reserve accretion during 2018-19 in domestic basins, including the Company's share in PSC JVs, stands at 157.30 MMtoe (20.25 MMtoe from JVs). During the fiscal 2019, the company has been ranked 197 in the coveted Fortune Global 500 list. This ranking has come on the back of robust fiscal and physical performance in FY2018. The Company has been ranked fifth globally in the mining and crude oil production' industry category. The company maintained its First Position globally in the industry category 'Oil and Gas Exploration and Production' and achieved overall ranking of 21st position in the Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings-2018. The company has been adjudged the winner in the 'Oil and Gas Exploration' category of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards 2018. The company has been conferred with INFRA Icon Award in the 'Global Energy' category at the midday INFRA Icons Awards 2018. The Company in recognition of its efforts for promoting Oil & Gas Conservation during 'Saksham 2018' was honoured with the award for best overall performance in the 'Upstream Sector' at the inaugural function of 'Sanrakhsan Kshamta Mahotsav-2019' (Saksham-2019). Uran Processing Plant of the company was adjudged the BBS Award Winner in Petrochemical categoryat the Third Annual National Conference 2019 on BBS, New Delhi. The company spent Rs 2,94,498 million for various Capex initiatives in the FY2019. The Board of Directors of the company, at the 312th meeting held on 20 December 2018 approved the proposal for buy-back of equity shares of the Company upto 252,955,974 fully paid-up equity shares at the price of Rs 159/- per equity share payable in cash for an aggregate consideration not exceeding Rs 40,220 million. The buy-back offer worked out to 2.50% of the net-worth of the Company as on 31 March 2017 and 2.34% as on 31 March 2018. The Company has completed the buy-back of 252,955,974 fully paid-up equity shares on 22 February 2019. As on 31.03.2020, ONGC holds a total of 7 Nomination PEL blocks (5106.05 Km2 ), 358 Nomination PML blocks (Long Term: 327 and Short Term (7 year): 31) having an acreage area of 54,321.75 Km2 and 1 Pre-NELP block (892.0 Km2 ). In NELP regime, your company has 23 active NELP blocks comprising 21,126.17 Km2 of PEL area and 10 PMLs carved out from NELP blocks with an acreage area of 1380.78 Km2 (5 PMLs in Gujarat, 1 PML in Andhra Pradesh, 3 in shallow water and 1 deep-water PML). Besides, ONGC as non-operator has participative interest (PI) in 2 blocks having acreages area of 567.00 Km2. In addition, ONGC also holds 17 OALP blocks (13 on-land, 3 shallow water and 1 deep-water areas) covering an area of 33,572.73 Km2 awarded till the end of OALP-IV bidding round. Also as non-operator, it has 3 OALP acreages covering an area of 1558 Km2 . In DSF-II round, your company was also awarded 5 contract areas with PML acreage area of 946.81 Km2. During the year 2019-20, your Company has notified 12 discoveries (7 New Prospects and 5 New Pools) in its nomination acreages. ONGC bagged S&P Platts Global Energy Award 2019 for Corporate Social Responsibility - Diversified Program. This award is a testimony to the extraordinary contributions as a corporate citizen in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) domain. The company received the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industries (FIPI) Oil & Gas Exploration Company of the Year 2019 Award. ONGC has bagged the First runner-up Diversity & Inclusion Award 2019' in Best Employer for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category. This award was given under Large Category' during a Conference-cum-Awards on Diversity & Inclusion ceremony organized by ASSOCHAM at New Delhi. Hazira Plant received the 'Grow-care India OHS Award 2019' in Platinum Category for the year 2019. Swachh Bharat Puraskar, 2019 conferred by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) for quality contributions to Swachh Bharat Mission since 2014 During FY2020, three major projects (MHNRD PhaseIV, HRP-III, PRP-VI) with an investment of Rs 64,874 Million and envisaged oil and gas gain of 13.62 MMTOE were approved. As on 01.04.2020, 17 major projects were under implementation with envisaged gain of about 121 MMTOE. We also realize the need to maximize recovery from our existing legacy fields. We envisage a cumulative gain of over 200 MMT of oil from the 31 approved Increased Oil Recovery (IOR)/Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) schemes. The Government's policy incentive in this regard provides a timely fillip for moving ahead with more Enhanced Recovery projects. Under this policy, ONGC has planned commercialization of 5 EOR schemes and implementation of 3 EOR pilots. Further, it has initiated process for fast-track pilot design of the Chemical EOR in 12 onshore reservoirs of 7 fields. In FY2020, ONGC spent Rs 2,95,385 million towards various Capex initiatives.

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Directors Reports

It gives me great pleasure to present, on behalf of the Board of Directors of your Company, the 27th Annual Report on the business and operations of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC/the Company) and the Audited Statements of Accounts for the financial year ended 31.03.2020 (FY'20), together with the Auditors' Report and Comments on the Accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.

Despite massive and unprecedented disruption due to COVID-19 during the end of the FY'20 and resultant adverse socio-economic environment, your Company along with its group companies, sustained performance, recorded success and growth not only in its core activities of Exploration and Production (E&P) of crude oil and natural gas but also in other areas of our business.

Crude oil and natural gas production by the Company, including its share in Joint Ventures (PSC JVs) during FY'20 was 48.25 MMTOE (Million Tons of Oil Equivalent) which is about 3.6 per cent less than the production during FY'19 (50.04 MMTOE). Your Company has been making all efforts to arrest the decline in the production from its matured fields through various measures like Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods and other production enhancement methods. Further, your Company has made commendable performance in the core area of exploration by registering Reserve Replacement Ratio of 1.19. All efforts are being made to enhance production.

During FY'20, the accretion to In-place Hydrocarbons from Company operated domestic fields has been 100.22 MMTOE in 2P and Estimated Ultimate Reserve (EUR) was 53.21 MMTOE in 2P. In terms of 3P category, in-place hydrocarbon accretion was 98.99 MMTOE and EUR was 40.74 MMTOE on account of exploratory efforts from the Company-operated areas in India.

55.26 MMTOE (about 56% of total 3P In-place volume) has been accreted from New Discoveries.

43.73 MMTOE (about 44% of total 3P In-place volume) has been accreted as an outcome of Field growth.

Your Company's share in In-place volume of accretion in the Joint Venture (JV) fields in India, where it is not the operator, have been estimated to the extent of 7.14 MMT O+OEG (3P) and 1.59 MMT O+OEG in EUR (3P).

Your Company had four direct subsidiaries, namely ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Petronet MHB Limited (PMHBL).

Your Company also has nine Associates/ Joint Ventures, namely ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL), ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC), ONGC TERI Biotech Limited (OTBL), Dahej SEZ Limited (DSL), Mangalore SEZ Limited (MSEZL), Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL), Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHL), Petronet LNG Limited (PLL) and Rohini Heliport Limited (RHL).

1. Major Highlights: FY'20

The major highlights of your Company during FY'20 are:

a) Standalone production has been 44.57 MMTOE against 45.86 MMTOE during FY'19.

b) Value Added Products (VAP) production was

3,548 (Thousand Tones) KT as compared to 3,641 KT during FY'19 - mainly due to less receipt of condensate.

c) Your Company drilled 500 wells (Exploratory wells: 106, Development and Side Track wells: 394) in spite of less Rig Months and lockdown due to COVID-19. FY'20 is the fourth consecutive year when your Company has drilled 500 or more wells.

d) During the year gas production commenced

‘Cluster-2 Development of KG-DWN-98/2', in East Coast on 05.03.2020 from the well #U3B.

e) Your Company declared total 12 discoveries

(7 New Prospects and 5 New Pools) in its operated acreages.

f) Reserve Replacement Ratio (RRR) from domestic fields was 1.19 with respect to 2P reserves. With this, the Company achieved Reserve Replacement Ratio (2P) of more than 1 for the 14th consecutive year.

g) Your Company monetized 22 discoveries. Out of these, 4 discoveries at Vanjiyur, Billakurru, Nandigamma North and Sundulbari, were made in the current year and remaining 18 pertain to preceding years.

h) Buoyed by the path-breaking successes in well Hatta-2 in Vindhyan and Asokenagar-1 in Bengal on-land Basin last year, a conscious effort was undertaken for acquisition of open acreage areas around these discoveries.

i) Panna-Mukta operations were handed over back to the Company by the current operator on 21.12.2019 post expiry of PSC contract with JV partners. Your Company has taken over these fields after 25 years. Your Company has taken over operations of these fields seamlessly and revived production.

j) Your Company was awarded 15 blocks in different rounds under Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) bidding.

The Company also bagged all seven Oil and Gas Blocks offered in the fourth bid round of the OALP of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG).

k) Under the Policy Framework to promote and incentivize EOR method for oil and gas, Government of India (GoI) presented an opportunity to your Company to further expand its EOR portfolio. Under this policy,

22 onshore and 5 offshore fields qualified for EOR Screening. Four onshore fields (Balol, Santhal, Sanand and Gandhar) have already been put under commercial EOR applications. Further, commercial EOR schemes have been implemented in two onshore fields (Viraj and North Kadi) after ER policy.

l) Eleven major projects, costing around Rs 218,822 Million, were completed during the year. Further, as on 31.03.2020, a total of 17 major projects (Development-10, Infrastructure-7) were under various stages of implementation.

m) Three major projects (MHNRD Phase-IV, HRP-III, PRP-VI) with an investment of Rs 64,870 Million and envisaged oil and gas gain of 13.62 MMTOE were approved.

n) Your Company announced Notice Inviting Offer (NIO) in June, 2019 seeking paricipation for enhancement of oil and gas production from its 64 marginal nomination fields by infusion of new technology. Notice of Award (NOA) were issued on 14.05.2020 to seven successful bidders, in 13 contract areas, for 49 of these marginal nomination fields.

o) Hazira Dahej Naphtha Pipeline (HDNPL), to facilitate direct supply of Naphtha from the Company's Hazira Plant to OPaL, commissioned in Nov'2019, resulting in substantial cost savings in transportation of Naptha to OPaL.

p) Hazira Plant has been successful in production of special grade of High Flash High Speed Diesel (HFHSD) – viz. NATO grade HFHSD, for specific use of Indian Navy being supplied through Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). Supply of NATO grade HFHSD started from Hazira Plant from August 2019.

q) Your Company has obtained 9 patents and also filed for another 9 patents. r) Y our Company raised USD 300 Million year bond at coupon rate of 3.375% in

International Market, lowest by any Indian Issuer for 10 year or longer tenure, which further demonstrates the credentials of your Company as an integrated energy major in international investor community.

s) Revenue from operations stood at Rs 962,136 Million against Rs 1,096,546 Million (restated) in FY'19.

t) Net profit was Rs 134,445 Million against Rs 267,646 Million during FY'19 (restated) mainly due to lower realisation on crude and exceptional item towards impairment.

2. Global Recognitions

Your Company has been ranked at 17th among global energy majors in the world by Platt's Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings-2019 based on assets, revenues, profits and return on invested capital. Among Indian companies, your Company has been ranked at No. 1. The leading international business journal Forbes in its 2020 list has ranked your Company 5th largest in India and 269th worldwide based on sales, profit, assets and market value. Further, your Company is ranked 190th globally and 3rd in India in 2020 ranking update of Fortune Global 500 list.

3. Details of discoveries

Your Company has declared following twelve new discoveries during FY'20 in its operated acreages, which resulted in accretion of 55.26 MMTOE In-place volume and 7.76 MMTOE of EUR.

Prospect discoveries:

1) Vanjiyur oil discovery #3 in Cauvery On land (L-II Petroleum Mining Lease - PML);

2) Billakurru gas discovery #1 in KG On land (Godavari Mining Lease -ML);

3) Nandigama North oil discovery #1 in KG On land (West Godavari PML);

- 4) B-218 oil discovery in Mumbai Offshore (Shallow Water - SW) in extension of NW-MH PML;

5) B-219 oil discovery in Mumbai Offshore (SW) in extension of NW-MH PML;

6) R-12-6 oil discovery in Mumbai Offshore (SW) in Ratna & R-series PML; and

7) YS-6-2 gas discovery in KG offshore (Yanam PML).

Pool discoveries:

8) SDP-55 Pay (Mid. Bhuban) gas discovery in SD#12 in Sundulbari-Agartala Dome in Assam and Assam Arakan (A&AA) basin;

9) SDP-22 and 23 pays (Upper Bhuban) gas discovery in SD#15 in West Tripura PML in A&AA basin;

10)SD-6 Pay gas discovery in Gummaturu-1 (GMTAA) in Raghavapuram Formation in Kavitam Additional PML in KG Onshore;

11)SD-4 Pay gas discovery in Penugonda-5 (PGAE) in Raghavapuram Formation in Kavitam Additional PML in KG Onshore; and

12)L-II Pay (Bandra Formation) in WO-24-10 (SW WO-24 field), in NW-MH PML in Western offshore Basin.

Out of 12 discoveries made during FY'20, four discoveries i.e. Vanjiyur, Billakurru, Nandigama North and SDP-55 of well SD-12 were monetized during the same year. Total 22 discoveries were monetized during FY'20, in addition to above18 discoveries of the earlier periods were also monetized during the year.

4. Award of E&P Blocks

Your Company was awarded 15 Blocks under OALP Rounds (OALP-II, OALP-III, and OALP-IV), with an area of 32,117 Km2 of exploration acreage in different sedimentary basins of the country - 23,732 Km2 of the acreage in onshore while 8,385 Km2 in offshore (Shallow Water

(SW): 5,894 Km2; Deep Water (DW): 2,491 Km2). Your Company has already started exploratory activities in few of the awarded blocks and has acquired 1,432.14 Square Kilometer (SKM) of 3D data in MN-DWHP-2018/1 block (Mahanadi deep-water) and 310 Line Kilometer (LKM) of 2D and 88.22 SKM of 3D seismic data in MB-OSHP-2018/1 block (Mumbai Offshore-SW).

5. Reserve Position and Reserve Accretion

Your Company adopted Petroleum Resource Management System (PRMS) for estimation of hydrocarbon reserves. With this approach, as on 01.04.2020, accretion of In-Place Hydrocarbons (3P) from the Company operated fields stood at 98.99 MMTOE due to exploratory efforts, out of which 56 per cent accretion were on account of New Discoveries.

Total In-Place Reserve Accretion during FY'20 in domestic basins was 106.14 MMTOE, including 7.14 MMTOE from the Company's share in PSC JVs.

As on 01.04.2020, total In-Place Hydrocarbon Volume (3P) of the Company Operated and JV Fields stood at 9,997.22 MMTOE against 10,002.63 MMTOE as on 01.04.2019. The Estimated Ultimate Recovery (3P) at the end of FY'20 was assessed at 3,286.63 MMTOE against 3251.60 MMTOE estimated as on 01.04.2019.

During the year, the Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) accretion in 2P category from the Company operated areas in India was 53.21 MMTOE.

Accretion of In-Place Hydrocarbons and Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) by the Company in its operated areas and in Non-Operated areas (JV Share) during FY'20 and position of In-Place Hydrocarbons and Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) as on 01.04.2020 were as below:

Units in MMTOE

	In-place Hydrocarbon volumes and Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR)
Accretion during the year 2019-20					Position as on 01.04.2020
Reserve Type		Company Operated	JV Operated	Total	Company Operated	JV Operated	Total
In-place	2P	100.22	2.71	102.93	8,150.16	667.82	8,817.98
Hydrocarbon
	3P	98.99	7.14	106.14	9,305.04	692.18	9,997.22
EUR	2P	53.21	1.74	54.95	2,939.78	119.68	3,059.45
	3P	40.74	1.59	42.33	3,166.74	119.89	3,286.63

Note: EUR position as on 01.04.2020 (EUR=Cumulative Production + Reserves + Contingent Resources).

Units in MMTOE

	Position of Reserves and Contingent Resources as on 01.04.2020
As per PRMS#	Category	Company Operated	JV Operated	Total
Reserves	2P	751.72	20.64	772.35
	3P	810.38	20.85	831.23
Contingent Resources	2C	408.38	-	408.38
	3C	576.68	-	576.68

Note: # as per PRMS adopted w.e.f. 01.04. 2019.

Units in MMTOE

The details of Reserve Accretion (2P-Proved and Probable) for the last five years in Company's basins is given in the table below.

Year	Company Assets (1)	Company's share in JVs (2)	Total (3)=(1)+(2)
2015-16	65.58	0.80	66.38
2016-17	64.32	0.22	64.54
2017-18	67.83	1.02	68.85
2018-19	63.02	11.45	74.47
2019-20	53.21	1.74	54.95

Note: Reserve Accretion reported in terms of 2P reserves.

6. Drilling of Wells

Your Company drilled 500 wells during FY'20, including 5 exploratory and 10 development wells in KG deep-water block, as against 516 drilled during FY'19, as given under:

Well Description	FY'19	FY'20
Exploratory (including shale)	105	106
Development	373	357
Side Tracks	38	37
Total	516	500

7. Oil, Gas and VAP Production

Crude oil and natural gas production of the Company along with its share in the PSC JVs during FY'20 was 48.25 MMTOE (23.35 MMT of crude oil and 24.90 BCM of gas) which was

~3.58% less than production during FY'19 (50.04 MMTOE).

On standalone basis, Company's production during the year was 44.57 MMTOE; with a decrease of 2.82% (45.86 MMTOE in FY'19).

On standalone basis, production from Company operated fields was 20.71 MMT of crude oil (21.11 MMT in FY'19) and 23.85 BCM (Billion cubic meters) of Natural gas (24.75 BCM in FY'19).

Your Company's share of production through JV operations was 2.64 MMT of crude oil (3.12 MMT in FY'19) and 1.04 BCM of natural gas (1.06 BCM during FY'19).

Production of VAP was 3.548 MMT against 3.640

MMT in FY'19 (decreased by 2.6%).

Detaitls of production, sales quantity and value, productwise during FY'20 with comparision of FY'19 is as under:

Description	Unit	Production Qty		Sales Qty		Value (Rs	in Million)
		FY'20	FY'19	FY'20	FY'19	FY'20	FY'19
Crude Oil	(MMT)	23.35	24.23	21.34	22.50	6,48,363	775,729
Natural Gas	(BCM)	24.90	25.81	19.40	20.48	1,93,556	188,389
Value Added Products (VAP)
Liquefied Petroleum	000 MT	1,013	1,107	1,011	1,109	36,038	43,490
Gas
Naphtha	000 MT	1,115	1,175	1,177	1,154	39,863	46,861
Ethane-Propane	000 MT	345	414	346	414	8,155	10,063
Ethane	000 MT	536	455	535	456	12,937	10,109
Propane	000 MT	224	210	219	207	7,251	7,948
Butane	000 MT	125	114	125	115	4,208	4,470
Superior Kerosene Oil	000 MT	54	66	55	71	2,465	3,355
Others*	000 MT	135	99	91	58	4,178	2,585
Sub Total (VAP)	000 MT	3,548	3,640	3,559	3,584	1,15,095	128,881
Total						9,57,014	1,092,999

*Others include ATF, Sulphur-P, Sulphur-C, LSHS, HSD, LDO and MTO

Production from Overseas Assets - ONGC

Videsh Ltd

Your Company's overseas operations are carried out exclusively through ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), the wholly owned subsidiary. OVL in turn conducts its operations either directly or through its subsidiaries. Production from overseas assets during FY'20 was 14.981 MMOE in comparison to 14.833 MMTOE during FY'19; an increase of approx.1%. The oil production during FY'20 was 9.755 MMT; 3.4% less compared to the production (10.097 MMT) during FY'19.

The reduction is mainly because of exit from the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), Sudan in August 2019, and lesser than anticipated production from Vankor field in Russia, San Cristobal and Carabobo fields in Venezuela, and ACG, Azerbaijan. The gas production of 5.226 BCM during the year was

10.3% higher compared to FY'19 production of

4.736 BCM with better performance of Block 6.1 in Vietnam and A1&A3 projects in Myanmar.

Oil and Gas production of your Company including contribution from JVs and Overseas assets for FY'20 was 63.23 MMTOE (against 64.88 MMTOE in FY'19).

8. COVID-19 and ONGC's response

The COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in late-2019, has now assumed substantial global proportions with significant human, societal and economic impact. Radical lockdown measures that were executed, early on, across several countries, accounting for more than half of the global population and energy consumption, to contain the spread of the disease brought the world to a standstill like never-seen before.

While lockdown measures still continue in some form in different countries based on the current severity of the pandemic, the economic impact of the lockdown was particularly pronounced in the month of April, 2020. Like any other sector of the economy, oil and gas industry too has been adversely affected by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oil and gas counts among the country's essential and strategic resources and sustaining hydrocarbon operations becomes even more critical under exceptional circumstances such as this. Your Company has taken cognition of its role as the country's leading upstream player and stands well equipped to sustain this kind of emergency situation. Based on the perceived threat posed by the pandemic and in anticipation of a possible disruption in future, the Company has prepared itself operationally to ensure critical supplies of oil and gas without compromising the health and safety of its valued workforce including contract workers.

However, the challenges posed by COVID-19 are multi-layered, complex and evolving on a daily basis – a situation that is unprecedented for our times. Your Company's COVID-19 response is premised on preserving ‘People, Material and Resources', and continuously reassessing its efficacy and effectiveness and also revisiting the strategies based on regular updates from operations teams, channel partners, and in-house HSE, Risk and Medical teams. For better coordination and information dissemination, OCAY Desk (ONGC Covid19 Assistance for You), a 24x7 Helpdesk for Covid19 has been established. Further, your Company has maintained its average production levels throughout the period as the country has been under a state of lockdown notwithstanding the supply and logistical constraints imposed by the situation. Furthermore, your Company embarked upon a massive country wide well-coordinated crew change operation named ‘Operation Nishtha', to ensure safe return of operational crews, who had been performing extended duty for 50-60 days against their normal duty pattern of 14 days at various location of field operations.

As a responsible corporate, your Company contributed Rs 3,000 Million to PM CARES fund and around Rs 242 Million worth of CSR projects have so far been undertaken countrywide benefitting more than 43 lakh fellow countrymen through distribution of food supplies, masks, PPE kits, sanitizers and funding of ventilators in hospitals. ONGCians, on their part, donated two days' salary in the month of April'20; and one day salary during May and June 2020 amounting to about Rs 255 Million to PM CARES Fund.

9. Technology induction/up-gradation

Technology induction/up-gradation in various areas of operations is a continuous process in your Company to remain effective and competitive. The following technologies were evaluated/ inducted during FY'20:

a. Remote sensing image processing software suite with extensions/add-ins for physics-based atmospheric correction. Software: ERDAS Imagine, Extension/ Plug-in: ATCOR: Software would help in basic and advanced raster image data processing and pre-processing of multispectral/hyper-spectral visible-shortwave infrared as well as thermal infrared image data with built-in extension for radioactive-transfer physics-based absolute atmospheric and in spectral mapping of lithology and identifications of micro-seeps, thus providing an interpretative edge over existing verticals. This would also support batch processing of large data volumes dedicated with built-in spatial modelling functionality to integrate spatial and non-spatial data. It is useful for 3D geospatial rendering and geoprocessing, topographic analysis and manipulation of DEM/ DSM/ DTM data derived from stereo-photogrammetry, SAR or LiDAR for hydrographic and geomorphic derivatives.

b. CUDA FORTRAN Compiler Graphic

Processing units (GPUs) have evolved into programmable, highly parallel computational units with very high memory bandwidth. GPU designs are optimized for the computations found in graphics rendering, but are general enough to be useful in many data-parallel, compute-intensive programs common in high-performance computing. The compiler has been inducted with the intent of developing specialized software applications as a part of R&D activities.

c. CRAM (Common Reflection Angle Migration): A new depth migration software which is a multi-arrival depth domain solution which works in local angle domain and outputs angle gathers in depth. This is a highly compute (computational) intensive and resource intensive application. CRAM is designed for detailed velocity model building and for precise imaging in areas with complex structure and velocity for 3D onshore and offshore data.

d. Big Data analytics: The Company has successfully implemented big data analytics using Machine learning approach. This technology can be employed to handle large datasets for analysing seismic and micro-seismic data, improving reservoir characterization and simulation etc. The approach was successfully implemented in the prediction of reservoir properties in B-12/ C26 area of western offshore basin during FY'20.

e. Broadband processing technology: In-house capability for Broadband processing technology of broadband data has been developed, which helped in increasing image resolutions with its analysis on Amplitude Versus Offset, leading to substantial savings of foreign exchange.

f. E-line Well Intervention Services: The first E-line Intervention job was carried out in well HSC-2ZH of Heera field in Western Offshore Basin. Rig-less well intervention services were deployed with the objective to retrieve Grating Light Valve (GLVs) and set these GLVs in the deviated zone (angle: 68) to maximize production. In the past, there had been various constraints to retrieve and reinstall GLV in high deviation wells with other intervention technologies that were deployed in the field. The GLV change job was successfully completed in this well.

g. Dual Zone Testing (DST): DST has added immense value during testing in the Well B189#A by saving significant Rig-days (six days) and by providing real time data, opening a new chapter for future dual zone testing in a single DST run. Use of dual zone DST helped the Company in improving operational efficiency and also maintaining the highest level of operational standards along with safety in the offshore environment.

h. GEOTEST1000. A new state-of-the-art technology GEOTEST-Triaxial Rock testing laboratory from Vinci Technology, France was inducted in June 2019 and will be helpful in determining the varied range of geo-mechanical properties.

i. Up-gradation of processing system for genomic analysis: Technology up-gradation of processing system to amplify the target 16s rRNA gene of bacteria for identification of oil degrading bacteria through Polymerize Chain Reaction was successfully completed during the year. This technological upgradation will help in isolating and finding potent Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) degrading bacteria for bioremediation of soil and effluents contaminated with high concentration of PAH and will be useful in field implementation project for bioremediation of crude oil contaminant soil and effluents.

j. Under the Make in India campaign Your

Company, in collaboration with IOCL, has developed the following materials for operational requirements:

1. Base Oils suitable for Drilling Fluids for Low Toxicity Oil Base Mud; and

2. High Pressure Extreme Pressure lubes for Drilling Fluids.

10. Technology developed/ tested in-house and absorbed for IOR/ EOR processes:

a. North Kadi polymer flood: The chemical

EOR technology i.e. polymer flood in North Kadi field was conceptualised for commercialization. The scheme was commissioned on 17.01.2020 ahead of its target schedule of August, 2021. The target STOIIP of the scheme is approximately 18 MMT and the envisaged incremental oil in polymer flood at end of 15 years will be approximately 0.769 MMT over base case.

b. Bechraji Polymer flood pilot: Feasibility

Report for polymer flood in Bechraji heavy oil field of Mehsana Asset was approved. This is for the first time that polymer flood is planned in heavy oil. The Pilot started on 06.05.2019.

c. Commercialization of ASP Flood in Viraj

(K-IX+X): Field scale Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer flooding (ASP) scheme consists of four phases of chemical injection followed by chase water injection. The implementation of the ASP project commenced in July'19.

The commercialization of ASP injection in K-IV sand of Viraj field envisages ASP injection @1,120 m3/d through fourteen injectors in inverted 5-spot pattern. It envisaged oil recovery of 0.3 to 0.6 MMT.

d. Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) Pilot in

Lanwa Field: Lanwa CSS pilot is being taken up with an envisaged incremental gain of 0.312 MMT. The scheme is likely to commence during FY'21.

e. Immiscible Gas Injection in Borholla Field: Immiscible gas injection EOR initiatiated on pilot scale in Borholla Field, Jorhat from January 2017. Positive results observe in terms of increase in reservoir pressure and arrest of production decline. Based on success of pilot scheme, full field development scheme has been prepared with envisaged incremental oil gain of 0.3

MMT and recovery of 35.6% by 2030. Field

Report (FR) has been approved and scheme is under implementation.

f. Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) in Kasomarigaon Field: GAGD EOR scheme in Kasomarigaon Field, Jorhat envisaged incremental oil gain of 0.31 MMT with recovery of 33% by 2030. FR has been approved and the project is under implementation.

g. Immiscible Gas Injection in Bokabil pay of Khoraghat Field: The immiscible gas injection EOR scheme envisaged incremental oil gain of 0.153 MMT and recovery of 22.7% by 2035. FR has been approved and the project is under implementation.

h. in Gandhar Field: Simulation

Miscible CO2

for GS-9 and GS-11 layers were studied and incremental oil gain of 8-10% is expected by 2042 with 75 new injector wells. Lab studies and simulation were completed and EOR implementation has been planned by injecting captured from IOCL's Koyali

CO2

refinery. In this regard, Memorandum of Understanding was signed with IOCL on 01.07.2019.

i. LoSal water flood in Mumbai High Field: As a step towards solution search for offshore EOR, single well micro pilot for Low Salinity (LoSal) water flood was carried out in January 2017 in Mumbai High South field. Based on laboratory and field results, multi-well pilot application of Low Salinity Water Flood (LSWF) in western periphery of Mumbai High Field is currently under implementation which envisages incremental oil gain of 0.846 MMT by 2035. The project is likely to commence during FY'21.

j. During FY'20, the following technologies were developed by the Institute of Oil and Gas Production technology (IOGPT), Panvel:

i. "Enzyme Application for Wellbore

Cleaning to Remove Mud Cake in Oil/ Gas Wells to Enhance the Productivity"

- The patented formulation is useful for effective degradation of mud polymer cake formed in horizontal section of well bore during drilling operations.

ii. "Gelled Emulsified Acid System for Stimulation of Carbonate Reservoirs".

The patent formulation is a Gelled Emulsified Acid System with dual properties of high viscosity and reaction retardation for effective matrix acidization and acid fracturing of carbonate reservoirs.

iii. "Composition and Process for

Preparation of a Fracturing Fluid".

The patent relates to a formulation and process for preparation of a polymer-free fracturing fluid comprising of visco-elastic surfactant.

iv. "Method for Recovering Heavier

Hydrocarbons from Liquefied Natural Gas". The patented process offers high efficiency in cold energy utilization, minimizes infrastructure requirements and maximizes recovery of heavier hydrocarbons. It also reduces utility requirements and can be easily integrated with existing LNG regasification terminals.

v. ‘Novel Demulsifiers for Separation of Water from Oil and Preparation thereof" jointly with M/s. National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra. The patent relates to a low temperature process for demulsification of crude oil using novel crude oil demulsifier with greater than 95% efficiency.

vi. Copyright for "Software

i-Procal v-1", developed on Visual Basic Platform for Sizing and Rating of Various Process Equipment.

vii. Identification of Suitable Diverters for

Improving Diversion Efficiency for Fracturing Operation in more than one Perforated Interval: With comprehensive laboratory experimentations and studies, IOGPT has developed a Novel, eco-friendly, biodegradable particulate Poly Lactic Acid Pill for application in fluid diversion in hydraulic fracturing operations.

viii. Work-over Fluid for Sub Hydrostatic Gas Wells: An innovative eco-friendly Polylactide based Self-degradable Loss Control Particulate Pill could be developed by IOGPT after extensive laboratory studies to address fluid loss in sub-hydrostatic gas wells.

ix. H2S Reduction in Dispatched Oil from

B-193 Platform: IOGPT recommended scheme of use of sweet gas as stripper gas in a stripper column was successfully implemented in B-193 process complex to sweeten the crude oil.

x. Wax removal by Exothermic Chemical

Reaction: A technology developed by IOGPT utilizes the heat liberated through controlled exothermic chemical between aqueous nitrogenous salts for melting the paraffin deposits. The technology was successfully implemented in wells of Mehsana and Cambay Asset.

11. Other Exploration Initiatives and Activities

a. National Seismic Programme (NSP):

Towards complying with the mandate of

2D seismic Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation (API) of 42,211 LKM assigned by GoI in un-appraised areas of Indian sedimentary basins grouped in 11 on-land sectors, your Company, as on 31.03.2020, has completed data acquisition of 40,137.38

LKM (95.1%) and processed about 35,422.38 LKM (83.9%) of complete seismic lines. The interpretation of data is also being carried out and at the end of FY'20, your Company completed the interpretation of about 22,003.97 LKM (52.1%). This data in turn would contribute in augmenting domestic production of oil and gas. The entire assignment of the on-going API Project would be completed during FY'21.

b. Basement Exploration:

To continue with the efforts towards Basement

Exploration, your Company has characterized basement reservoirs in different basins during FY'20. It adopted various initiatives including fracture characterization and fracture distribution modelling. This included drilling of 22 wells together with 11 exploratory wells with Basement as a main objective in different acreages of the Company falling in A&AA, Cambay, Cauvery, KG and Western Offshore Basins. An innovative work flow has been adopted for the first time in Fracture Characterization of intrusive bodies within Mesozoic Sequence in different blocks viz. GK-28/42, GK-OSN-2009/1, GK-OSN-2010/1, GS-OSN-2004/1, falling in Kutch-Saurashtra area in Western Offshore. The entire study was carried out on facies model of Trap by preparing General Circulation Models and fracture modelling supplemented with stochastic porosity mapping and calibrations. The study helped in identification of five prospects in GK-28/42 area for future exploration. Basement prospectivity analysis based on Automatic Fault Extraction and Vector Analysis around B-45, B-192 and WO-24 fields, south west of Mumbai High area has also been completed during the year with identification of two more prospects. Your Company has been involved in successful planning and monitoring of basement reservoir in Thirunagari, Pundi and Panadanallur fields of Cauvery Basin. During FY'20 Padra-132,135,136 wells in Cambay basin produced oil and gas; and in totality the Production curve has shown a sharp rise in the Trap section in last five years in the Padra area due to optimal placement of wells in the fractured zones. Twenty three new locations have been firmed up in Padra area for targeting specific fractures.

c. HP-HT Exploration:

High Pressure-High Temperature (HP-HT) and tight reservoirs are known to have typical challenges in the form of borehole complications, fluid design, high-cost drilling technology, HP-HT cementing, well construction and other reservoir engineering problems. Despite these challenges, your Company has successfully established hydrocarbon in HP-HT reservoirs like, - Bhuvnagiri, Malleswaram, Periyakudi, Kottalanka, Bantimulli South, Yanam shallow Offshore, GS-OSN-2004,G-4-6 and certain areas of Assam Arakan Fold Belt.

During FY'20, HP-HT and tight gas plays had a mixed bag of successes and failure. Exploration in Yanam shallow offshore in KG basin has led to discovery of gaseous hydrocarbons from the lower synrift sequence in the well YS-6-2 sub (drilled in FY'19) indicating development of sweet spots. Your Company has notified YS-6-2 sub-gas discovery as a new prospect. The successful testing of the well using state-of-the-art technologies and testing fluids proved the capabilities of the Company. On the other front, the wells in Deendayal block in East Coast, where testing with multiple HP-HT hydro-fracturing did not yield the desired results, continue to be a challenge in developing the complex HP-HT reservoirs.

Geo-cellular Modelling, dynamic modeling and reservoir simulation studies of Nagyalanka field in Andhra Pradesh were undertaken, based on which nine development locations were identified and three locations are prioritized for drilling and multistage hydro-fracturing where an incremental oil production from these locations is around 300 m3. Multiple hydro-fracturing in the Eastern Offshore field DDW-D5 has been completed and during the year two wells DDW-D6 and DDW-D7, in the same area, have been taken up for drilling. Another well B-41-2 in Mumbai Offshore basin was drilled, which on testing did not give any encouraging results.

Presently, your Company has been producing from four HP-HT fields viz. Periyakudi in Cauvery Basin, Bantumilli South and Nagayalanka fields in KG Onland and Deen Dayal West field in KG Offshore.

12. Exploration and Production from Unconventional Sources

a. Coal Bed Methane (CBM):

Currently your Company is operating four CBM blocks in Jharia, Bokaro and North Karanpura in Jharkhand and Raniganj in West Bengal. Exploration activities have been completed in these blocks and developmental activities are at an advanced stage in three of these blocks viz. Bokaro, Jharia and North Karanpura.

During FY'20, in Bokaro CBM block, 26 wells (18 vertical and 8 inclined) were drilled and 17 wells were tested. Dewatering has been taken up by lowering artificial lifts. Gas break-in was observed in 13 wells.

In North Karanpura CBM Block, total 26 wells were taken up for drilling; out of which 18 wells have already been drilled. In addition, Hydro-fracturing has been carried out in 19 wells and gas break-in was observed in four of these wells.

b. Shale Gas:

Your Company has assessed shale gas/oil potential in 24 blocks from 50 nomination PML blocks identified for shale gas/oil exploration in the country. As on 31.03.2020, drilling of 29 wells (including 10 exclusive wells and 19 dual objective wells) were completed in four basins viz. A&AA, Cambay, Cauvery and KG Basins. Further, two exclusive shale wells (NJSGA in Cambay Basin and MDSGA in KG Basin) and one dual objective well PGAE (KG Basin) were drilled.

Currently, one dual objective well LKEAA in KG Basin is under drilling. Efforts are on to establish the shale gas/oil potential in the identified blocks. Indications of presence of shale oil have been recorded in wells like - JMSGA, NSGB and NJSGA in Cambay Basin and WGSGA in KG Basin during activation after hydro-fracturing. One zone within Nawagam Middle Pay (Tight Reservoir) of shale well NGSGA of Cambay Basin was hydro-fractured and on activation produced oil. The shale well WGSGA in KG Basin, requires further activation whereas in another well GNSGC in Cambay Basin hydro-fracturing job is to be carried out.

c. Underground Coal Gasification:

Your Company had taken an initiative to test the Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology in India for which all the ground work has been completed with obligatory inputs for construction and implementation of UCG R&D Pilot Project at Vastan Mine block site belonging to GIPCL in Naninaroli, Surat district, Gujarat to establish UCG technology. However, there is not much progress as all state PSUs of Gujarat, including MOU partner, Gujarat Industries Power Company Limited, backed out of the UCG project due to the low calorific value of the Syngas.

Additionally, processing of gas at surface shall be a challenge as Syngas has many impurities and contamination, and also non-availability of business partners from Coal/ Chemical/ Power sectors for business ease during pilot/ commercialization. Considering all the factors and current gas price scenario, your Company might not commit further in this line of business.

d. Gas Hydrate Exploration Program

Your Company has been an active contributor to gas hydrates exploratory research under National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP) of GoI since its inception in the year 1997. So far, your Company has played a significant role in successful execution of NGHP-01 and NGHP R&D Expedition-02. With the focus on the pilot production testing, the gas hydrate reservoirs discovered during NGHP-02 (Block KG-DWN-98/5) have been delineated and Geo-cellular modelling for the gas hydrate rich reservoir has been completed to get detailed cell-wise geophysical/reservoir parameters around the proposed site for pilot production test during next NGHP-03 expedition.

Potential exploitation methodologies like sand control measures, well design, well bore completions and depressurization techniques, various production simulation modelling and other studies have been carried out in collaboration with USA.

Gas Hydrate Research & Technology Centre (GHRTC) of your Company is involved in R&D activities in exploration for gas hydrate prospects in Indian deep waters and potential exploitation methodologies for gas hydrates through in-house efforts and PAN-IIT collaborations. This institute will also contribute to GoI's plan to commercialize

Gas Hydrates as energy resource, at the earliest.

Presently, your Company has been working on identification of gas hydrate prospective areas in part of CY-DWN-2004/1 and MNDWN-2002/1 blocks in Cauvery and Mahanadi Basin respectively for future field expeditions. Besides, your Company has also been working on pre-stack seismic data analysis for Gas hydrates characterization/ delineation in part of KGDWN 98/2 Block in KG offshore.

13. Oil & Gas Projects

Projects completed during FY'20

Following eleven major projects (9 development and 2 Infrastructure) costing around Rs 218,822 Million were completed during the year:

Sl Project Name No	Completion Date	Project Cost ( Rs in Million)	Oil gain* (MMT)	Gas Gain (BCM)
Development Projects
1 NW B-173A Development Plan	03.05.2019	3,655	0.76	0.213
2 Field Development Plan of NELP Block KG- ONN-2003/1-NAGYALANKA-KG ONLAND	10.09.2019	2,850	0.83	0.343
3 Development of BSE-11 Block	13.10.2019	5,442	0.57	0.568
4 4th Phase Development NBP Field	03.10.2019	11,136	2.08	-
5 Daman Development Project	31.10.2019	47,972	3.811	26.93
6 MH South Redevelopment Ph-III	31.03.2020	49,539	7.547	3.864
7 Integrated Development of B-127 Cluster Fields(including B-55 field)	31.03.2020	20,209	1.992	4.68
8 Enhanced Recovery of Bassien field through Mukta, Panna formations	31.03.2020	46,549	1.729	18.83
9 Development of B-147 Field Infrastructure Projects	31.03.2020	5,271	0.489	0.708
10 Assam Renewal Project	26.12.2019	23,842	-	-
11 Construction of one ETP and three ETPs with WIPs	30.11.2019	2,357	-	-
Total		218,822	19.808	56.136

* Oil gain includes condensate

Project under implementation:

As on 01.04.2020, seventeen major projects were under implementation with a total projected cost of around Rs 625,925 Million with envisaged oil and gas gain of ~121 MMTOE.

Projects approved for implementation

During FY'20, the following three offshore projects were approved for implementation:

1) Pipeline Replacement Project-VI: Project was approved on 30.05.2019 with an investment of Rs 7,639.20 Million. Project envisages laying of 11 pipeline segments in Mumbai High, Neelam & Heera and B&S Assets. The project is expected to be completed by December 2020.

2) Mumbai High North Redevelopment Phase-IV: Project was approved on 22.04.2019 with an investment of Rs 32,288 Million. The scheme envisages one Conventional platform, new living quarter and revamp/ replacement work and drilling of 43 wells. The scheme envisages incremental gain of 4.249 MMT oil and 0.49 BCM gas by March 2035. The project is expected to be completed by March 2022.

3) Heera Re-development Phase-III Project:

The project was approved on 31.05.2019 with an investment of Rs 24,947 Million. The scheme envisages installation of two New Well platform (HM & HN), laying nine pipeline segment of total length 48.5 Kms, Top-side modifications at Heera Complex, Neelam Complex and seven well platforms and drilling of 26 wells. The scheme envisages incremental production of 3.06 MMT oil and 5.82 BCM gas by March 2035. The project is expected to be completed by May 2022.

In addition, the Company's mega offshore deep-water project in East Coast i.e. Cluster-2 Development of KG-DWN-98/2, was in advanced stage of completion.

First gas achieved on 05.03.2020 after completing tie-back of one Gas Well [U-3-B] to the existing Vashishta facility at water depth of 1,300 meters.

14. Financial Highlights:

Your Company earned Profit After Tax (PAT) of Rs 134,445 Million, down by 49.77% over FY'19 (Rs 267,646 Million - restated) and registered Revenue from Operations of Rs 962,136 Million, down by 12.26% over FY'19 (Rs 1,096,546 Million).

Highlights – Standalone Financial Statements

Revenue from Operations	: Rs 962,136 Million
Profit After Tax (PAT)	: Rs 134,445 Million
Contribution to Exchequer	: Rs 411,019 Million
Return on Capital Employed	: 22.44%
Debt-Equity Ratio	: 0.07:1
Earnings/ Share	: Rs 10.69
Book Value/ Share	: Rs 154

Particulars	Rs in Million
	2019-20	2018-19*
Revenue from operations	962,136	1,096,546
Other Income	61,050	72,652
Total Revenue	1,023,186	1,169,198
Profit Before Interest	467,083	579,773
Depreciation & Tax (PBIDT)
Profit Before Tax (PBT)	203,687	400,291
Profit After Tax (PAT)	134,445	267,646
Transfer to General Reserves	50,094	154,362

* re-stated figures.

15. Change in Share Capital:

There is no change in capital structure of the Company.

16. Dividend

Your Company has paid interim dividend of Rs5 per share of Rs5 each (100%) in March 2020 amounting to Rs62,901.40 Million besides Rs12,929.40 Million applicable Dividend Distribution Tax.

The Board of Directors has not recommended any final dividend with a view to conserve cash for investments in business operations.

The Dividend Distribution policy as formulated by the Company, may be accessed at the web link https://www.ongcindia.com/wps/wcm/ connect/en/investors/policies.

17. Management Discussion and Analysis Report

As per the terms of regulations 34(2)(e) of the SEBI Listing Regulations, the Management Discussion and Analysis Report (MDAR) as appended, forms part of this Report.

18. Financial Accounting

The Financial Statements of the Company for FY'20 have been prepared in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 including Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) and Guidance Note on Accounting for

Oil and Gas Producing Activities issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

The Company has issued two series of Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) with issue size of Rs 5,000 Million and Rs 10,000 Million on 31.07.2020 and 11.08.2020 respectively. Both series of NCDs have been listed on Bombay Stock Exchange.

Besides issue of NCDs, there have been no material changes and commitments, which affect the financial position of the Company, which have occurred between the end of the financial year to which the financial statements relate and the date of this Report.

19. Loans, Guarantees or Investments

Your Company is engaged in Exploration & Production (E&P) business which is covered under the exemption provided under Section 186(11)oftheCompaniesAct,2013.Accordingly, the details of loans given, investment made or guarantee or security given by the Company to subsidiaries and associates is not reported.

20. Details relating to deposits covered under

Chapter V of the Act:

Your Company has not accepted any deposit during the year. Further, there was no outstanding deposit and/or unpaid or unclaimed principal amount or interest against any deposit either at the beginning or at the end of FY'20.

21. Credit Rating of Securities:

Details of the Credit Ratings of Debt Securities of the Company as on 31.03.2020:

1 Name of Debt Security	International Bonds (Senior unsecured notes) issued by the Company and subsidiaries which are guaranteed by the Company	International Bonds (Senior unsecured notes) issued by the Company and subsidiaries which are guaranteed by the Company	Commercial Paper up to Rs10,000 crore outstanding at any point of time
2 Credit Rating obtained	Rating : Baa2 (Negative) [Including for Issuer Rating]	BBB- (Stable) [Including for Issuer Rating]	[ICRA]A1+, CARE A1+
3 Name of the credit rating agency	Moody's Investors Service	S&P Global Ratings	ICRA Limited (ICRA), CARE Ratings Limited (CARE)
4 Date on which the credit rating was obtained	February 2005 and annual surveillance thereon every year.	November 2012 and annual surveillance thereon every year.	ICRA: 18.06.2018 revalidated on 17.09.2018,11.12.2018, 14.03.2019, 18.06.2019, 22.07.2019, 20.11.2019 and 2.03.2020 CARE: 25.06.2018 and revalidated on 21.08.2018, 27.12.2018, 22.02.2019, 29.04.2019, 18.06.2019, 20.09.2019, 17.01.2020, 25.02.2020 and 21.03.2020.
5 Revision in the credit rating	Yes, foreign currency rating and Local issuer Rating is downgraded from Baa1 to Baa2.	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
6 Reasons provided by the rating agency for a downward revision, if any	Due to increasing uncertain oil price environment, Company's depleted cash reserves and government guidelines that constrains state-owned enterprises' ability to lower dividends, Company's baseline credit assessment (BCA) and ratings are materially challenged at the previous rating level and its credit profile insufficient to remain above India's Baa2 sovereign rating. The rating outlook is negative in line with the outlook on India's sovereign rating.	Not Applicable	Not Applicable

Note: Pursuant to downgrade of India's sovereign rating from Baa2 to Baa3 on 01.06.2020, Moody's Investor Services had downgraded Company's local and foreign currency issuer and issue rating from Baa2 to Baa3 on 02.06.2020.

22. Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF)

Details of transfer of unclaimed dividends and eligible shares to IEPF have been placed in the Corporate Governance Report, which forms part of this Annual Report.

23. Related Party Transaction

Particulars of contracts or arrangements with related parties as referred to in Section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013, is provided in specified Form AOC-2, and placed at Annexure-A.

Brief details about subsidiaries/ Associates and Joint Ventures:

Subsidiaries:

a) ONGC Videsh Limited

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL/ONGC Videsh), the wholly-owned subsidiary of your Company for carrying on E&P activities outside India, has participation in 37 oil and gas projects in 17 countries, viz. - Azerbaijan (2 projects), Bangladesh (2 Projects), Brazil (2 projects), Colombia (7 projects), Iran (1 project), Iraq (1 project), Israel (1 project), Kazakhstan (1 project), Libya (1 project), Mozambique (1 Project), Myanmar (6 projects), Russia (3 projects), South Sudan (2 projects), Syria (2 projects), UAE (1 project), Venezuela (2 projects) and Vietnam (2 projects). In FY'20, OVL exited from 4 projects, viz., GNPOC and Sudan Pipeline Project, Sudan, PEL-0037, Namibia, and PEP57090, New Zealand. Exploratory Blocks GUA OFF-2, RC-9 & RC-10 in Colombia, and Satpayev in Kazakhstan are under relinquishment and OVL plans to exit exploratory block LLA69 in Colombia during FY'21.

Out of these 37 projects, OVL is the Operator in 13 projects, Joint Operator in 6 projects and in remaining 18 projects it is non-operator. OVL has a combination of 14 producing,

4 discovered/ under development, 16 exploration projects and 3 pipeline projects. OVL's share in production of oil and oil equivalent gas (O+OEG) is provided under the heading ‘Production from Overseas Assets by OVL' in para 7 above.

Gross consolidated revenue of OVL for FY'20 was Rs 1,55,383 Million (against Rs 1,46,320 Million) and registered Rs 4,540 Million as PAT during FY'20 as against Rs 16,823 Million during FY'19. The decrease in profit is mainly on account of lower crude oil price realization and impairment provisions.

Significant Funding activities

5 year Notes of USD 750 Million which were due for redemption in July 2019, were duly redeemed by raising a syndicated loan facility of USD 500 Million from international commercial banks and the balance requirements were sourced from internal accruals. 8.54% Unsecured Non-Convertible redeemable Bonds in the nature of Debentures issued for value aggregating Rs 3,700 Million which were listed on National Stock Exchange were duly redeemed on 06.01.2020. Further, OVL refinanced USD 1,000 Million during March 2020 out of USD 1,775 Million falling due in November 2020.

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Eastern Cluster Cooperation Agreement (ECCA) was signed on 17.09.2019 between Rosneft, Russia and Indian Consortium consisting of OVL, BPRL, IOCL and OIL to widen the scope of cooperation between India and Russia in E&P sector.

Significant events in the area of Exploration & Operations:

1. OVL achieved the highest ever production of 14.981 MMTOE in FY'20.

2. ACG, Azerbaijan:

The execution of Azeri Central East project, involving engineering, fabrication and installation of processing and drilling rig platform, commenced in April 2019. The project is scheduled to deliver first oil in the year 2023 and envisages cumulative incremental production of 300 Million Barrels (MMBBLS).

3. Sakhalin 1 , Russia

During FY'20, Sakhalin-1 Consortium decided to build 6.2 MMT/year Russian Far East LNG plant as a part of Chayvo Phase-2 gas development. Phase 2 development envisages monetizing huge gas reserves, in excess of 6 Trillian Cubic Feet (TCF), pending for long due to lack of suitable monetization option.

During FY'20, Sakhalin-1 project achieved highest ever yearly average production of 258.5 Thousand Barrels of Oil Per Day (KBOPD).

4. Rovuma Area-1, Mozambique :

Area 1 Concessionaires have taken

Final Investment Decision (FID) for the initial two-train Golfinho/Atum Project on 18.06.2019.

Area-1 has executed LNG Sale Purchase

Agreements (SPAs) for a significant volume.

Area-1 consortium obtained First Mover status with approval of the Shared Facilities Construction Proposal from Government of Mozambique (GoM) on 20.03.2019. This enables Area-1 to lead the construction of the onshore facilities shared by Area-1 and Area-4.

5. GPOC, South Sudan: First oil achieved from El-Nar and El-Toor field of Block

1, 2 & 4 on 30.04.2019 and 30.05.2019 respectively.

6. SPOC, South Sudan: Block 5A Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) extension has been offered by Government of South Sudan up to the year 2037 along with the extension of exploration period for 54 months i.e. till July 2024. The resumption activities are underway in the field, while execution of addendum to EPSA is awaited.

7. CPO-5, Colombia: The Block is currently producing from two wells. Further 3D seismic API and drilling of exploration and appraisal wells has been planned.

8. BM SEAL-4, Brazil :

Two wells were drilled during the year, and initial results are encouraging. Further studies are in progress.

The first well MB-2 encountered oil and gas and during Testing (DST), the well flowed approx. 600,000 m/d of gas and 475 m/d of condensate. The second well MB-9, additional exploratory well over MWP, encountered oil & water in different sand columns. Currently, all discoveries made in Moita Bonita PAD are being evaluated by Operator for an Integrated Development Project.

9. A1 and A3 Myanmar:

Under new Exploration Program in

Block A-3, drilling of 3 exploratory wells commenced on 24.11.2019.

Drilling of first well Kissapanadi was completed on 26.12.2019, with insignificant gas show.

Second well, Mahar-1 has been established as a new gas discovery with an estimated gas in place (GIIP) of 1,056 billion cubic feet/BCF (2C). The well flowed gas at 38 MMSCFD (Million standard cubic feet per day) with 12 m net pay interval.

Drilling of third exploratory well Yan Aung Myin-1 was completed on 04.04.2020, with insignificant gas show.

10. Block 06.1, Vietnam:

Drilling of exploratory well PLDCC-1X-

ST1 has achieved success with the discovery of Permeable Low-Density Cellular Concrete (PLDCC) field. Plan is in progress for drilling of an appraisal well in 2020.

PSC Extension for the block 06.1, in view of discovery in PLDCC, is under process.

Direct Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures of OVL:

i. ONGC Nile Ganga B.V. (ONGBV): ONGBV, a subsidiary of OVL, is engaged in E&P activities directly or through its subsidiaries/ JVs in Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela,

Brazil and Myanmar. ONGBV holds 25%

Participating Interest (PI) in Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP), Sudan with its share of oil production of about 0.097 MMT during FY'20. OVL has exited from GNOP Sudan w.e.f 31.08.2019. ONGBV also holds 25%

PI in Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC), South Sudan. Production from GPOC, South Sudan resumed on 25.08.2018 after prolonged shutdown since December 2013 and produced 0.564 MMT in FY'20.

ONGBV holds 16.66% to 18.75% PI in four

Production Sharing Contracts in Al Furat Project (AFPC), Syria. Due to force majeure conditions in Syria, there was no production in AFPC project during FY'20. ONGBV holds

40% PI in San Cristobal Project in Venezuela through its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Nile Ganga (San Cristobal) BV with its share of oil & oil equivalent gas production of about 0.175 MMTOE during FY'20. ONGBV holds

27% PI in BC-10 Project in Brazil through its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Campos Ltd. with its share of oil and oil equivalent gas production of about 0.577 MMTOE during

FY'20. It also holds 25% PI in Block BM-

SEAL-4 located in deep-water offshore, Brazil through its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC

Campos Ltda. ONGBV also holds 8.347%

PI in South East Asia Gas Pipeline Co. Ltd., (SEAGP) for onshore Pipeline project, Myanmar through its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Caspian E&P B.V.

ii. ONGC Narmada Limited (ONL): ONL has been retained for acquisition of future E&P projects in Nigeria.

iii. ONGC Amazon Alaknanda Limited (OAAL):

OAAL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OVL, holds stake in E&P projects in Colombia, through Mansarovar Energy Colombia Limited (MECL), a 50:50 joint venture company with Sinopec of China. During FY'20, OVL's share of oil and oil equivalent gas production in MECL was about 0.419 MMTOE.

iv. Imperial Energy Limited (IEL): IEL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OVL incorporated in Cyprus, has its main activities in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia, Russia. During FY'20, Imperial Energy's oil and oil equivalent gas production was about 0.241 MMTOE.

v. Carabobo One AB: Carabobo One AB, a subsidiary of OVL incorporated in Sweden, indirectly holds 11% PI in Carabobo-1 Project, Venezuela. During FY'20, OVL's share of oil and oil equivalent gas production was about 0.094 MMTOE.

vi. ONGC BTC Limited: ONGC BTC Limited holds 2.36% interest in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ("BTC") which owns and operates 1,768 km oil pipeline running through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The pipeline mainly carries crude oil from the ACG fields from Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean Sea.

vii.Beas Rovuma Energy Mozambique

Limited (BREML): BREML was incorporated in British Virgin Islands (BVI) and has been migrated to Mauritius w.e.f. 23.01.2018. OVL holds 60% shares in BREML and the balance 40% are held by Oil India Ltd. BREML holds 10% PI in Rovuma Area 1, Mozambique.

viii.ONGC Videsh Atlantic Inc. (OVAI): OVL has setup a Geological and Geophysical (G&G) Centre at Houston, USA through its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Atlantic Inc. The Centre caters to requirement of G&G studies for potential new acquisitions of OVL including G&G studies of its existing portfolio of projects.

ix. ONGC Videsh Rovuma Limited, Mauritius:

ONGC Videsh Rovuma Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of OVL was incorporated in Mauritius for re-structuring the 10% PI in

Rovuma Area 1, Mozambique.

x. ONGC Videsh Rovuma Limited, India: OVL transferred its entire 10% PI in Rovuma Area-1 to its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Rovuma Limited, incorporated in India, on 01.01.2020.

xi. ONGC Videsh Singapore Pte. Ltd.: This company was incorporated by OVL on 18.04.2016 in Singapore for acquisition of shares in Vankorneft, Russia, through its subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte

Limited (OVVL). OVVL holds 26% shares in

Vankorneft, Russia and its share of production during FY'20 was 4.981 MMTOE.

xii.Indus East Mediterranean Exploration

Ltd.: Indus East Mediterranean Exploration Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of OVL was incorporated in Israel on 02.02.2018 and engaged in E&P activities related to Block-32, Offshore Israel.

xiii.ONGC Mittal Energy Limited (OMEL):

OVL along with Mittal Investments Sarl (MIS) promoted OMEL, a joint venture company incorporated in Cyprus. OVL and MIS together hold 98% equity shares of OMEL in the ratio of 49.98:48.02, remaining 2% shares are held by SBI Capital Markets Ltd. OMEL also holds 1.20% of the issued share capital of ONGBV by way of Class-C shares issued by ONGBV exclusively for Syrian Assets and is being financed by Class-C Preference Shares issued by ONGBV.

xiv.SUDD Petroleum Operating Company:

SUDD Petroleum Operating Company (SPOC), a Joint Operating Company incorporated in South Sudan to operate in Block 5A, South Sudan in which OVL, Petronas and Nilepet of South Sudan holds 24.125%, 67.875% and 8% PI respectively.

Block 5A is located in the prolific Muglad basin and is spread over an area of about 20,917 SKM.

xv. MozLNG1 Holding Company Ltd:

The MozLNG1 Holding Company Ltd incorporated at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), UAE by the Area-1 Concessionaires with shareholding in proportion to the PI holding in Area-1 Concession Contract as part of the Area 1 Project Finance Structure for the initial two train LNG development. OVL and BREML, as Concessionaires in

Area 1 Concession Contract, each holds 10% shareholding in MozLNG1 Holding Company Ltd. The MozLNG1 Holding Company Ltd owns 100% shares of Mozambique LNG1

Company Pte Ltd incorporated at Singapore for Marketing and Shipping activities and Moz LNG1 Financing Company incorporated ADGM for project financing activities.

xvi. Falcon Oil & Gas B.V. (FOGBV): FOGBV was incorporated in Netherlands on 02.02.2018. OVL's wholly owned subsidiary

ONGBV holds 40% shares in FOGBV, IOC and BPRL holds 30% shares each though their respective Dutch subsidiaries. FOGBV holds 10% PI in Lower Zakum Concession for a period of forty years with effect from 09.03.2018. During FY'20, OVL's share of oil production was about 0.800 MMT. b) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)

Your Company holds 51.11% stake in HPCL, a Schedule ‘A', Maharatna, and listed entity. HPCL owns and operates 2 major refineries – one at Mumbai (7.5 Million metric tonnes per annum - MMTPA) and the other one at Visakhapatnam (8.3 MMTPA). It also owns and operates the largest Lube Refinery in the country with a capacity of 428 TMT (thousand metric tonne). It has second largest share of product pipelines in India with a network of more than 3,370 Kms.

During FY'20, HPCL refineries achieved combined refining throughput of 17.18 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) with capacity utilization of 109%. Both the Refineries were up-graded to produce BS VI compliant transportation fuels and BS VI grade petrol (Motor spirit-MS) and high speed diesel (HSD) were produced and distributed Pan India basis as per the timelines stipulated by Government of India. Mumbai Refinery achieved highest ever LOBS (Lube Oil Base Stock) production with 478 TMT. Vizag refinery has started the production of VLSFO (Very Low Sulphur

Fuel Oil of Sulphur less than 0.5%) to meet the regulatory requirement of MARPOL (Marine Pollution) Protocol. Lower Refinery throughput during FY'20 (compared to FY'19 throughput of 18.44 MMT) was mainly due to planned shutdowns required for upgradation of the refineries for BS VI fuel and revamps of secondary units at Vishakhapatnam Refinery to cater to upcoming new primary processing units in Visakh Refinery Modernization Project (VRMP), a brown field expansion of the refinery at Visakhapatnam.

HPCL achieved combined Gross Refining Margin of USD1.02 per barrel during the year as compared to USD 5.01 per barrel during FY'19. Gross refining margins (GRMs) were lower in comparison to FY'19 mainly due to inventory losses and reduced cracks in Diesel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Fuel Oil.

During FY'20, HPCL achieved the highest ever sales volume of 39.6 MMT compared to FY'19 sales of 38.7 MMT. Domestic sales of Petrol increased by 4.7% compared to FY'19 while LPG sales grew by 7.3 per cent.

HPCL commissioned record number of 1,194 new retail outlets and 245 new LPG distributorships during FY'20 taking the number of total retail outlets to 16,476 and LPG distributors to 6,110 as on 31.03.2020. With its thrust on natural gas as a new line of business, HPCL has commenced CNG sales at 476 outlets. Construction activities at Chhara LNG gasification terminal are in progress. HPCL is also participating in cross country natural gas pipelines in Joint venture with other companies.

Revenue from operations of HPCL for FY'20 was Rs 2,874,169 Million (against Rs 2,969,463 Million) and registered Rs 26,373 Million as PAT during FY'20 as against Rs 60,287 Million during FY'19. Decrease in PAT was mainly because of impact of inventory losses due to sharp fall in crude prices and exchange rate fluctuations. For FY'20, HPCL has proposed a final dividend of Rs 9.75 per share.

Direct Subsidiaries of HPCL

i. Prize Petroleum Company Limited

Prize Petroleum Company Ltd (PPCL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HPCL. PPCL is the upstream arm of HPCL and is in the business of Exploration and Production (E&P) of Hydrocarbons as well as providing services for management of E&P blocks.

ii. HPCL Bio Fuel Limited

HPCL Biofuels Ltd (HBL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HPCL. The company was incorporated on 16.10.2009 as a backward integration initiative to foray into manufacture of ethanol. HPCL Biofuels Ltd. (HBL) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of

HPCL. HBL was promoted as a backward integration initiative to enable HPCL's foray into manufacturing of Ethanol for blending in Petrol. HBL presently has two integrated Sugar-Ethanol-Cogeneration plants at Sugauli and Lauriya in the state of Bihar.

iii. HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited

HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL) is a joint ventureofHPCLandGovernmentofRajasthan with 74% equity participation by HPCL and balance 26% by Government of Rajasthan.

HRRL is setting up a 9 MMTPA capacity Greenfield refinery cum petrochemical complex in the state of Rajasthan. HPCL and the Government of Rajasthan entered into a revised Memorandum of Understanding on 18.04.2017 for the construction of the said Refinery with revised parameters. The revised Joint Venture Agreement was signed on 17.08.2017.

iv. HPCL Middle East FZCO

HPCL Middle East FZCO, a 100% Subsidiary of HPCL was incorporated on 11.02.2018 as a free zone company under Dubai Airport Free Zone and Establishment Card was issued on 22.03.2018. The company, established for trading of lubricants, greases, petrochemicals and refined petroleum products, commenced its operations thereby supplying HP Lubricants to 11 Countries.

c) Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL)

Your Company holds 71.63 % equity stake in

MRPL, a Schedule ‘A' Mini Ratna company and listed entity, which is a single location

15 MMTPA Refinery. Further, HPCL, another subsidiary of your Company, also holds

16.96% in MRPL.

MRPL's refinery is established with a versatile design with complex secondary processing units and a high flexibility to process Crudes of various API, delivering a variety of quality products. Refining throughput of MRPL during FY'20 was lower at 14.14 MMT, against 16.43 MMT during FY'19, mainly due to unprecedented water scarcity faced during first quarter and minor landslide during second quarter of operation, aftermath of the intensified monsoon. This culminated in negative GRM of USD 0.23/bbl for FY'20 (USD 4.06/bbl during FY'19).

FY'20, Financial Performance: In stressed global market conditions, MRPL registered a standalone turnover of Rs 6,07,515 Million (Rs 7,23,151 Million in FY'19) and recorded Net Loss of Rs 27,076 Million (against Net Profit of Rs 3,320 Million in FY'19). GRM for MRPL was negative at USD 0.23/bbl (against positive USD 4.06/bbl during FY'19). The primary reason for reduction in GRM/ profitability were disruptions in operations due to water shortage during Q1, landslide inside refinery during Q2 and impact of COVID in the last quarter.

Subsidiary of MRPL

ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited

(OMPL)

ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited

(OMPL), is a subsidiary of MRPL holding 51% and the balance 49% is held by your Company.

OMPL has set-up Aromatic Complex with an annual capacity 914 Thousand Tons Per Annum (KTPA) of Para-xylene and 283 KTPA of Benzene in Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) as a value-chain integration project aligning with MRPL's operations. OMPL has introduced a new product, viz., Paraffinic Raffinate in the export market and started sale of Heavy Aromatics in domestic market. Performance of OMPL during FY'20 was severely affected due to unprecedented fall in International prices of Para-Xylene and Benzene owing to various factors like Capacity additions in China, Crude volatility and US-China Trade issues etc. OMPL maintained excellent safety record of zero LTI

(Lost time Injury) consistently during past 4 years.

d) Petronet MHB Limited (PMHBL)

During FY'20 your Company along with its subsidiary HPCL acquired additional 34.56% shares of PMHBL and post-acquisition both, your Company and HPCL, are maintaining the equal share holding as increased at

49.99%. This acquisition resulted better cost economics, revenue maximization and better synergetic opportunities for ONGC group.

PMHBL owns and operates a 362 kilometer (KM) multi-product pipeline to transport of MRPL's products from Mangalore to the hinterland of Karnataka. Total throughput of PMHBL for FY'20 was 2.93 MMT against 3.36 MMT in FY'19.

Associates and Joint Ventures:-

e) ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL)

OPaL is a mega petrochemical project established in Dahej SEZ and incorporated on 15.11.2006 for utilizing in-house production of C2-C3 and Naphtha from Hazira and Uran units of the Company. Total project cost of OPaL was Rs 308,260 Million. Your Company,

GAIL and GSPC holds 49.36%, 49.21% and 1.43% of equity shares of OPaL respectively.

OPaL was commissioned in 2016-17 and has been ramping up its production in phases. OPaL has established itself in domestic/ export market with sale of prime grade products. OPaL operated at average 88% capacity in FY'20; and aggregated more than 1.6 Million Tones of polymer and chemical sales.

OPaL has obtained Food Grade approvals for all polymer grades as per US-FDA, EU and Indian standard. OPAL has also obtained RoHS-III approval for all these polymer grades as per EU directive. During the year, much awaited Hazira Dahej Naphtha Pipeline was commissioned which will reduce the feed cost to OPaL and increase the profitability.

Total Income of OPaL during FY'20 was Rs 102,071 Million (against Rs 97,854 Million in FY'19) and posted loss after tax of Rs 20,897 Million (Rs 14,203 Million during FY'19).

f) ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC)

OTPC was incorporated on 27.09.2004 as a joint venture of your Company. Currently your Company holds (50%) along with the Government of Tripura (0.5%) and IL&FS Energy Development Co. Ltd. (IEDCL - an IL&FS subsidiary) (12.03%); IL&FS Finance (13.79%) and Global Infrastructure Partner 23.5%.

OTPC has a 726.6 MW gas based Combined Cycle Power Plant at Palatana, Tripura with two generating units with equal capacity. The basic objective of the project is to monetize idle gas assets of the Company in landlocked Tripura State and to boost exploratory efforts in the region. Power evacuation for both the units is done through 663 KM long 400 KV double circuit transmission network by NorthEast Transmission Company Limited (NETC), a joint venture of Power Grid Corporation, OTPC and Governments of the North-Eastern states. Average Plant load factor (PLF) for

FY'20 was 61%; mainly due to shut down of one unit for about six months.

Total Income of OTPC during FY'20 was Rs 12,765 Million (against Rs 14,558 Million in FY'19) and PAT was Rs 705 Million (against Rs 2,139 Million during FY'19).

g) ONGC TERI Biotech Limited (OTBL)

OTBL is a JV formed and incorporated on 26.03.2007 by your Company (49.98%) along with The Energy Research Institute (TERI)

(48.02%) and the balance 2% shares are held by individuals. OTBL has developed various Biotechnical Solutions for oil and gas Industry through collaborative researches involving the Company and TERI. These technologies include Bioremediation, Paraffin Degrading Bacteria (PDB), Wax Deposition Prevention (WDP) and Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MeOR) which are being provided to oil and gas industries both in India and abroad.

Total Income of OTBL during FY'20 was Rs 262 Million (against Rs 245 Million in FY'19) and PAT was Rs 75 Million (Rs 67 Million during FY'19).

h) Dahej SEZ Limited (DSL)

DSL, a 50:50 JV of the Company along with Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, was formed and incorporated on 21.09.2004 for establishing a multi-product SEZ at Dahej. Your Company has set up C2-C3 Extraction Plant as a value-chain integration project in this SEZ, which serve as feeder unit to ONGC Petro-additions Limited, JV of your Company.

Revenue from Operations of DSL during FY'20 was Rs 649 Million (compared to Rs 578 Million in FY'19) and PAT was Rs 461 Million (against Rs 330 Million during FY'19).

i) Mangalore SEZ Limited (MSEZL)

MSEZ is a Special Economic Zone promoted by the Company with an equity stake of 26% along with KIADB (23%), IL&FS (50%), OMPL (0.96%) and KCCI (0.04%). MSEZ, was set up and incorporated on 24.02.2006 for development of necessary infrastructure to facilitate and locate industrial establishments including OMPL. MSEZ is operational since April 2015.

Total Revenue of MSEZL during FY'20 was Rs 1,741 Million (against Rs 2,068 Million in FY'19) and loss after tax of Rs 316 Million (PAT Rs 24 Million during FY'19).

j) Pawan Hans Limited (PHL)

PHL, an Associate of the Company, with 49% holdings, was formed with the Government of India holding remaining 51% of the capital, primarily for catering to the logistic requirements of offshore and other remote area oil fields. PHL is a Mini Ratna-I Category PSU, having fleet of 43 helicopters. The Government of India is in the process of identifying a strategic investor for its entire holding and hence, your Company has also decided to exit PHL along with the Government.

k) Petronet LNG Limited (PLL)

Petronet LNG Limited (PLL), a JV of the Company, which was incorporated on 02.04.1998 with 12.50% equity holding along with identical stakes held by other Oil PSU co-promoters viz., IOCL, GAIL and BPCL, is a listed Company. PLL, one of the fastest growing world-class companies in the Indian energy sector, has set up the country's first LNG receiving and regasification terminal at Dahej, Gujarat, and another terminal at Kochi, Kerala. While the plant at Dahej terminal has 17.5 MMTPA capacity, the Kochi terminal has capacity of 5 MMTPA.

PLL has recorded total Revenue of Rs 355,620 Million during FY'20 as compared to Rs 383,954 Million in the previous year. Further, PAT of PLL was Rs 27,609 Million in FY'20 as compared to Rs 22,306 Million in FY'19. PLL has proposed a final dividend of Rs 7 per share for FY'20.

l) Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL)

Your Company has subscribed 20% equity capital in IGGL, a JV company along with IOCL, GAIL, OIL and NRL, formed and incorporated on 10.08.2018 for the purpose of laying 1,656 KM pipeline covering north-east states with a Capex of Rs 92,650 Million. IGGL has initiated the project related activities. MoPNG has already approved Viability Gas Funding (VGF) of Rs 55,590 Million which is 60% of the project cost.

Total Income of IGGL during FY'20 was Rs 17 Million (against Rs 6 Million in FY'19) and the net loss during the year stood reduced at Rs 53 Million (Rs 121 Million during FY'19).

m) Rohini Heliport Limited (RHL):

Your Company has subscribed 49% equity capital in Rohini Heliport Limited with

Government of India's stake as 51%, RHL is a mirror company of Pawan Hans Limited incorporated on 07.01.2019 for enabling disinvestment of PHL.

n) Companies Which Have Become/ Ceased To Be Company's Subsidiaries, Joint

Ventures And Associates Companies during FY'20

a) Companies which has become subsidiaries: NIL.

b) Companies which has ceased to be subsidiaries: NIL.

c) Companies which has become a joint venture or associate: NIL.

d) Companies which has ceased to be a joint venture or associate: NIL.

24. Start-up Initiative

‘ONGC Start-up Fund' (the Fund) was initiated with Rs 1,000 Million on the 60th foundation day of the Company (on 14.08.2016) towards fostering, nurturing and incubating new ideas related to energy sector and to promote entrepreneurship among young Indians. Through the Fund, your Company intends to create an ecosystem that is conducive for growth of Start-ups having technology-enabled ideas in the energy sector.

The Fund provides support measures such as seed capital, hand-holding, mentoring, market linkage and follow-ups, through engagement with selected Start-Ups, in collaboration with SINE of IIT Bombay and L-Incubator of IIM-Lucknow (Incubators).

The Fund periodically invites application for support from budding Start-ups. Seven proposals for investments aggregating to

Rs 315 Million have been firmed, out of which

Rs 210 Million has been disbursed. There are several proposals from many Start-ups seeking funding support which are at different stages of evaluation and due-diligence for investment.

Solar Chulha Initiative

Your Company also supported installation of

86 solar electric Chulhas and 5 solar thermal Chulhas in Betul village in Madhya Pradesh, as a pilot project. These Chulhas are working efficiently and the villagers have migrated to these newly installed Chulhas for their domestic purposes.

25. Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)

Being a high risk industry, safety of employees is the top-most priority of your Company. Hydrocarbon Exploration & Production (E&P) operations are being carried out in varied climatic regions ranging from deserts to coastal areas, hilly terrains to forests, shallow to deep water and also in ultra-deep water areas. E&P activities often interact with the ecosystems and may have physicochemical and bio-geochemical impact on the surrounding Environment. Your Company, being a responsible Corporate makes all efforts for protection and preservation of Environment.

The Company has a robust HSE Policy including e-Waste Policy in line with the existing rules, regulations and guidelines. Your Company has established a dedicated Institute, viz. Institute of Petroleum Safety, Health and Environment Management (IPSHEM) at Goa, for research and development in the field of Health, Safety and Environment Management apart from conducting training programs.

Your Company takes all the requisite measures to minimize the impact of E&P activities on the environment by adoption of clean technologies for gaseous emissions, liquid effluent and solid waste generated out of its operations. Your Company has implemented globally recognized

Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) Management System conforming to requirements of QHSE Certifications ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 (OHSAS) and certified by reputed agencies for Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series at all the operational units. Corporate guidelines on online incident reporting, investigation and compliance of audit observations have been developed and implemented for maintaining uniformity throughout the organization in line with the best international practices.

HSE Highlights

Internal Safety Audits and External Safety Audits

To check the conformity of activities and processes with the existing HSE management systems as well as to prevalent rules, regulations, guidelines and standards, regular internal audits are being conducted by multi-disciplinary teams of the Company. During the year, Internal Safety Audits were conducted at 266 Installations. In addition, external safety audits are conducted periodically by Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) and the Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS).

OISD conducts Safety Audits on regular basis. During FY'20, 55 Safety Audits/ Surprise Safety Audits and 2 Pre-Commissioning Audits were conducted by OISD. Compliance status for the observations raised by OISD as on 31.03.2020 was 94.05 per cent.

DGMS is a Regulatory Agency under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India in matters pertaining to occupational safety, health and welfare of persons employed in mines including oil-mines. It carries out periodic inspections of onshore facilities of the Company. During FY'20, DGMS carried out inspections at 143 Installations. Compliance status for the contraventions raised by agency as on 31.03.2020 was 97.69%.

Concerted efforts are being made to liquidate Safety Audit Recommendations within the stipulated timelines. Expected date of completion for compliance of audit observations is firmed up based on the criticality and volume of work involved. Suitable compensatory safety measures are put in place till the audit observations are complied with.

Waste Water Management: Your Company monitors the usage of waste water and maintains the quality of effluent discharged conforming to statutory requirements specified for discharge of treated effluent at surface/ subsurface. The Company has 32 number of Effluent Treatment Plants across onshore work centers to treat approx. 92,710 m3/day of waste water produced during E&P operations. For Offshore effluent treatment, Produced Water Conditioners have been installed at process platforms. Sewage Treatment Plants for treatment of sewage water generated are also provided at offshore facilities.

Solid Waste Management: For environmentally safe disposal of oily waste, OTBL has developed specialized patented technology for bioremediation of oily sludge/oil contaminated soil. The technology uses a consortium of Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria which reduces the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons levels in waste/soil to less than 1 per cent. During FY'20, 65,225 Metric Tones of oily sludge/oil contaminated waste has been bio-remediated.

Environmental Clearances: During the year FY'20, your Company received 10 environment clearances (ECs) from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) for carrying out exploration, development and production activities in 77 fields in onshore and offshore areas. Approvals were also accorded for drilling of 302 exploratory and 6 development wells, setting up of a Central Processing Facility, Deen Dayal Development project in KG Offshore and Expansion of Onshore Gas Terminal and Central Processing Plant in KG Offshore.

Regular interactions with Forest officials of Central and State Governments followed by their field visits to the Company's operational sites at Jorhat and Damoh resulted in issuance of new Guidelines dated 30.09.2019 by MoEFCC simplifying the procedures for carrying out seismic surveys and exploratory drilling in forest areas and resulting in substantial savings of resources and time for E&P industry

Since 2013, your Company has been accredited by Quality Council of India (QCI) – National Accreditation Board for Education & Training (NABET) as an EIA Consultant Organization which is a prerequisite for preparing EIA reports for accord of ECs by MoEFCC. The Company has been reaccredited third time in a row with validity extending up to 26.05.2021. The accreditation is beneficial in securing the ECs for Company's projects.

Other Initiatives:

An ambitious awareness campaign implemented during FY'20 on Ten Safety Rules has been carried out at all installations in which 10,789 personnel participated. In addition, 52,500 personnel have participated since its launch during FY'17.

HSE Index, introduced during FY'18, for benchmarking installations on various parameters like detection and suppression system, environment parameters, evacuation systems, and equipment integrity, has been implemented at all work centres.

Regular Mock drills are being conducted at installations/rigs to check the efficacy of preparedness against defined emergency scenarios. During FY'20, nearly 13,000 mock drills were conducted.

Mines Vocational Training - MVT is being imparted to both the Company employees and contract personnel through 10 in house training centres. During FY'20, 4,110 personnel (1,035 Company Employees and 3,075 Contractual Personnel) were trained.

In order to enhance the safety standards as well as ensure proactive measures, your

Company has taken a unique initiative of issuing Predictive Safety Alerts using data analytics. Analysis of past accidents data, near misses and audit observations for the last five years is carried out and correlated to publish predictive safety alerts based on which Installations are advised about the potential risks and the mitigation measures in order to minimise the risks.

Safety Alert is a brief guidance material that highlights an incident or unsafe practice and outlines the required action to prevent their occurrence. The information is disseminated to stakeholders for evaluation and taking appropriate action. Such alerts are regularly uploaded on Company's internal portal ongcreports.net for wider circulation and awareness among those involved in operations along with Safety Advisories for generic audit observations and their compliances to help improve the safety measures.

Your Company renewed the agreement entered with OTBL on 08.05.2019 for further ten years for Bioremediation of Oily Wastes and other Microbial techniques for enhanced Oil recovery at various work centre of the Company.

Your Company is a participant member of

Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL), UK for availing Tier-III Oil Spill Response services. During FY'20, Annual Preparedness Review was organized with OSRL on 21.01.2020 at Mumbai which was attended by participants from Offshore Assets.

World Environment Day was celebrated on 05.06.2019 on the United Nations

Environment Program (UNEP) Theme - Air Pollution, at all work centres of the Company. At the registered office of the Company, a talk by Director General of the Centre of Science and Environment and leading environmentalist, Padmashree Ms. Sunita Narain was organized.

An e-book titled "Connecting with the

Biodiversity of ONGC" was released, based on information collected during baseline studies for EIA of the E&P projects of operational areas of the Company. The book is a repository of natural sights, forest, land pastures and water bodies and also the various species of flora and fauna which include endangered and near threatened species. This repository basically aims to create awareness/sensitization by sharing information which would be useful for all the inhabitants of the Company's operational areas.

Your Company showcased its efforts on Bio-diversity Conservation at the 13th Conference of Parties of the Convention on migratory species on the theme "Migratory species connect the planet and together we welcome them home", under the aegis of United Nations Environment Programme, hosted by India during 17.02.2020 to 22.02.2020 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat in which 129 countries participated. As an exhibitor, your Company showcased efforts for Bio-diversity conservation and future conservation action plan of the migratory species. "Green Hub project" sponsored by the Company was also showcased wherein youth from across North East India were trained in wildlife videography who are currently engaged in various assignment related to conservation of biodiversity and documentation.

26. Carbon Management and Sustainable

Development

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM):

Climate change and global warming arising out of human activities is the biggest concern globally. Meeting the challenges require proactive innovative solution to sustain economic activities with minimal impact on environmental systems. So far the Company has registered 15 CDM projects with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Kyoto protocol, demonstrating its commitment towards protection of our environment and sustainable development. During FY'20, following three new projects are under validation process for registration as CDM projects:

5 MW solar power project at Ankleshwar,

1 MW solar power project at IPSHEM-Goa, and

Rooftop solar power projects at work centres of Gujarat, Assam and Dehradun.

As on 31.03.2020, your Company had 2,209,417 Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) in CDM equivalent]. account [1 CER = 1 ton CO2

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting and Mitigation:

Your Company aims to reduce GHG emissions by focusing on energy efficiency. Greenhouse Gas Accounting of the Company is being carried out every year based on GHG protocol and is disclosed in Sustainability Report of the Company.

Global Methane Initiative:

The Global Methane Initiative (GMI) is an action-oriented initiative from United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) to reduce global fugitive methane emissions to enhance economic growth, promote energy security, improve the environment, and reduce greenhouse gases emission. Under this programme, during FY'20, GMI survey was conducted at Uran Plant, Hazira Plant and 17 production installations of Assam Asset. Since 2007, the Company could prevent approximately 20.48 MMSCM of methane gas leakages in to the atmosphere with an environmental benefit of approximately 306,250 ton Equivalent CO2 (TCO2e) through this programme.

Solar and wind energy initiatives:

During FY'20, the Company has implemented 7 MW of Solar Power Plants and projects for 6.6 MW are under the final stages of implementation. The total Installed Capacity of Solar power as on 31.03.2020 was 25 MW. The solar capacity of the Company would increase further to 50 MW by 2020-21. Further, two wind power projects - 102 MW at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan and 51 MW at Kutch, Gujarat – are operational. The total installed capacity of Renewable Energy of your Company as on 31.03.2020 stood at 178 MW.

Replacement of conventional lights with LED lighting:

During FY'20, 73,000 conventional lights were replaced with LED lights across various work centers of the Company, taking the total to 2.75 Lakhs LED Lights under implementation of LED lighting program. This initiative has helped in reduction of carbon intensity and saving of Rs 357 Million annually.

Micro Turbines and Dynamic Gas Blending system:

As a part of sustainability initiative, this year also, the use of Micro Turbines and Dynamic Gas Blending systems (in diesel engines of drilling rig) were taken up in different locations of the Company.

Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation (CCSU)

CCSU is the only clean technology capable of decarbonising major industrial sectors including refining and petrochemicals. As per the recommendations of Task force constituted by Ministry of Coal, under the aegis of TIFAC (Technology, Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council), roadmap of CCUS for India is being prepared. Your Company, being party to the task force, proposed CO2-EOR as the top priority area for utilization of anthropogenic CO2. Further, your Company signed an MoU with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) on 01.07.2019 for based EOR in Gandhar CO2 captured

Field of the Company by injecting CO2 from IOCL's Koyali refinery into specially prepared wells. Presently feasibility study is being conducted by the Company for assessing the requirements of surface facilities, quantity of required and financial implications.

CO2

Electric Vehicle pilot project

Your Company promotes the use of clean fuel in its operations as well as transportation. In March 2019, first batch of 5 electric vehicles were flagged off under pilot project at Delhi, in collaboration with Energy Efficiency Services Limited, a joint venture of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) under Ministry of Power, GoI.

Video Conferencing- a step towards mitigating scope-3 emission

Taking advantage of the digital revolution like broadband and web-cam, your Company has adopted video conferencing for interaction of top management with key executives across the work centers. Presentations and business meetings are being held through video conferencing which reduces the travel cost, saves executive man-hours and mitigating scope-3 emissions from air travel. Besides that, your Company has been utilising video conferencing and other audio-video means extensively to mitigate the constraints due to pandemic COVID-19.

Sustainable Water Management

Different types of water management projects like rain water harvesting projects, sewage treatment plants, and re-use of produced water were implemented in line with existing policies of the Company. A large rainwater harvesting project at the IPSHEM, Goa harvests the runoff water from the large institute campus in a 1000 m3 capacity ground tank and utilizes the harvested water for its various utilities and for conducting training programmes on fire fighting. As a way forward, Uran plant of your Company will be setting up a 10,000 m3/day capacity Seawater Desalination Plant, scalable to 20,000 m3/day capacity, which will eliminate the total fresh water requirement of the plant, in couple of years from now. With this project alone, your Company's water footprint would be reduced initially by 16% and upto 32% with the scaling up of capacity of the plant.

ONGC Group Sustainability Report:

Your Company launched its independently assured ‘Sustainability Report' in the year 2009-10 and from then onwards the Company gradually expanded the boundary of reporting by including its subsidiaries and JVs. The report is prepared based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standard and independently assured through third party assurers as per AA 1000 AS Standard. ONGC Group Sustainability report FY'19 was released on 19.03.2020. Copy of reports may be accessed at www.ongcindia. com

27. Business Responsibility Report

Clause (f) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 34 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, stipulates that the Annual Report shall contain a Business Responsibility Report describing the initiatives taken by the listed entity from an environmental, social and governance perspective in the format specified. Accordingly, the Business Responsibility Report for FY'20 has been appended to this Annual Report.

28. Internal Financial Control System

Your Company has put in place adequate

Internal Financial Controls by laying down policies and procedures to ensure the efficient conduct of its business, safeguarding of its assets, prevention and detection of frauds and errors, accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, and timely preparation of reliable financial information commensurate with the operations of the Company. Effectiveness of Internal Financial Controls is ensured through management reviews, self-assessment and independent testing by the Internal Audit Team indicating that your Company has adequate Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting in compliance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and such Internal Financial Controls are operating effectively. The Audit Committee reviews the Internal Financial Controls to ensure its effectiveness for achieving the intended purpose. Independent Auditors Report on the Internal Financial Controls of the Company in terms of Clause (i) of Sub-Section 3 of Section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013 by the Statutory Auditors is placed along with the Financial Statements.

29. Human Resource Development

Your Company's operations are in challenging terrains – deserts, jungles, border areas, remote fields and offshore. Your Company truly values its Human Resource, i.e., ONGCians who commit themselves towards pursuit of E&P of hydrocarbons to ensure India's Energy security. To keep their morale high, your Company extends welfare benefits to employees and their dependents by way of comprehensive medical care, education, housing, social security and other facilities.

There were 30,105 employees on rolls as on 31.03.2020. These ONGCians dedicated themselves for securing excellent performance of your Company during the year. The workforce in-take strategy pursued by your Company caters to meet the demands of maintaining a steady flow of talent, in a business which is characterized by high risks and uncertainties, enormous costs, rapid technological advances, physically challenging work environment, fluctuating product prices and growing competition. Your Company's talent management strategy is focused on building an optimal and competent workforce to meet business needs, and it is also centered around workforce planning and talent acquisition, performance management, capacity building, career growth, succession planning and leadership development.

During FY'20, 15,416 executives and 5,044 non-executives were imparted appropriate training in relevant domains/ areas, spanning 163,156 executive and 17,966 non-executive training days.

During FY'20, 697 Graduate Trainees (GTs), in five batches, were familiarized with various E&P activities as part of ‘Induction Training'. For the first online onboarding training programs were organized for 442 newly joined GTs from all work centers. Induction Program for Unionized Category Employees on their elevation to executive cadre was introduced by ONGC Academy in association with Skill Development Centres. Five training programmes were conducted through foreign faculty which were attended by 118 participants. Your Company also pursued structured initiatives for maintaining a vibrant academia – industry interface through Chairs, participation in various academia-industry level forums, which conduct workshops, seminars, and conferences.

Major Emergency Management trainings were conducted through in-house faculty for the first time for Offshore Installation Managers. Four-day Emergency Management training was introduced and second line managers of Offshore were trained as per Emergency Response plans of the Company.

In 2019, your Company introduced two focused leadership development programmes for junior and middle level executives - FuEL programme (Future Energy Leaders) for E1 to E3 level executives and OYL programme (ONGC Young Leaders) for E4 and E5 level executives. These customized programmes were in association with Centres of Excellences (IIMs) to groom young executives as future leaders who will take ONGC to the next level.

Your Company also initiated a program for identification of competencies and development of leadership for its Mid – Level executives through Online Development Centres, with detailed Individual Development Plans for their development based on the assessments.

To keep the workplace lively and the workforce engaged and vibrant, your Company also conducted ‘Business Games' to hone the business acumen of its executives through business quizzes, business simulations and case-study presentations. During FY'20, a total of 260 teams and 1,029 executives participated in such games.

Similarly, ‘Fun Team Games' (FTG) were organized for E0 and below level employees to inculcate MDT (Multi-disciplinary Team) concept and spirit of camaraderie and belongingness to the organization, which was very well received by the participants. 158 Teams comprising 632 employees participated in FTG organized during FY'20.

Employee Welfare Trusts

Your Company has established following Trusts for welfare and social security of employees:-

Employees Contributory Provident Fund (ECPF) Trust manages Provident Fund accounts of employees of your Company.

Post-Retirement Benefit Scheme (PRBS) Trust manages the pension fund of employees of your company. The Scheme was converted into a Defined Contribution Scheme in accordance with DPE guidelines in November 2013.

Composite Social Security Scheme (CSSS) formulated by your Company provides an assured ex-gratia payment in the event of unfortunate death or permanent disability of an employee while in service. In case of separation other than Death/ Permanent total disability, employee's own contribution along with interest is refunded.

Gratuity Fund Trust established for payment of gratuity as per the provisions of the Gratuity Act.

Y our Company has ‘Sahyog Trust' for its Sahyog Yojana to provide ex-gratia financial grant for sustenance, medical assistance and treatment, rehabilitation, education, marriage of female dependent and alleviation of any hardship or distress to secure the welfare of the workforce and their kin, who do not have adequate means of support. The beneficiaries under this scheme include casual, contingent, daily rated, part-time, adhoc, contract appointees, and tenure based employees, apprentices and trainees engaged by your Company besides regular and past employees. Under the scheme, an amount of Rs 50.10 Million was disbursed by the Trust during FY'20 to 1,170 beneficiaries.

Your Company has instituted Asha Kiran Scheme to meet the emergency needs of the ex-employees retired prior to 01.01.2007. The scheme was launched as per DPE guidelines with a corpus of 1.5% of profit before tax.

Implementation of Govt. Directives for Priority Section

Your Company complies with the Government directives for Priority Section of the society. The percentage of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) employees were 15.4 percent and 10.5 percent respectively as on 31.03.2020.

Your Company is fully committed for the welfare of SC and ST communities. The following welfare activities are carried out by your Company for their betterment in and around its operational areas:-

Annual Component Plan

Under Annual Component Plan for SC/ST, every year allocation of Rs 200 Million is made. Out of this, Rs 60 Million is distributed amongst all the work-centres of the Company for taking up welfare activities for communities in and around areas of the Company's operations. In addition, Rs 140 Million is managed centrally, and is earmarked for special projects/ proposals/ schemes for the welfare of areas/ persons belonging to SC/ST communities. The amount under component plan is utilised for taking up various measures for the welfare and up-liftment of the needy people of the said communities. This fund is especially meant for providing help and support in Education and Training, Community Development and Medical and Health Care.

Scholarship to meritorious students

Your Company provides 1,000 scholarship for meritorious SC and ST students for pursuing higher professional courses at different Institutes and Universities across the country in Graduate Engineering, MBBS, PG courses of MBA and Geo-Sciences. The major feature of the scheme is that the scholarships have been equally divided for both Boys and Girls students. The scholarship amount is extended up to Rs 48,000/- per annum per student subject to conditions of the scheme.

Women Empowerment

Women employees constituted 7.3 per cent of your Company's workforce as on 31.03.2020. During the year, various programmes for women empowerment and development, including programmes on gender sensitization were organized. Your Company actively supported and nominated the women employees for programmes organized by reputed agencies. All middle level women executives underwent an Online Development Centre program for identification, assessment and development of leadership competencies. Special engagement initiatives were undertaken, such as story-writing contest, for sharing their unique journeys of courage and inspiration from the female perspective.

Disclosure under the Sexual Harassment

Your Company has complied with the provisions under the Sexual Harassment of women at workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 including constitution of Internal Complaints Committees (ICC) for dealing with complaints of sexual harassment of women at workplace. Four complaints of sexual harassment were received during FY'20. Skill enhancement programs were conducted for members of ICC to equip them with requisite skill for enquiring into complaints. The Company also issued detailed guidelines for dealing with complaints of sexual harassment. A dedicated page on Prevention of Sexual Harassment, with useful resources on creating awareness, has been added on the internal portal of the Company.

Work-Life Balance

Your Company believes in provides an enabling environment for work-life balance of its employees. Townships at many work centres have developed facilities like gymnasiums, clubs, sports facilities and music rooms. Facilities for gym, sports, yoga, library, etc. are also provided in Offshore Living Quarters. During the year, outbound programmes with families were also organized at various work centres. In addition, cultural programmes involving employees and their families were also conducted involving ONGC Officers' Mahila Samiti and Resident Welfare Associations of Company's residential colonies. Your Company has an adventure wing named ‘ONGC Himalayan Association' which organizes adventure programmes like mountaineering, trekking, water rafting, snow skiing, desert safari, Aero sports etc. which adds towards employee morale, engagement, team spirit, camaraderie, stress management and spirit to explore the unknown.

30. Industrial Relations

Your Company maintained harmonious

Industrial Relations throughout the Company. Man-days loss due to internal industrial action was reported as ‘NIL' for FY'20.

31. Compliance under the Right to Information

Act, 2005

Your Company has a well-defined mechanism in place to deal with the RTI applications received under the Right to Information Act 2005. Your Company has a designated senior level officer as a ‘Nodal Officer' to oversee its implementation. The applications received are processed by the 22 executives designated as ‘Central Public Information Officers' (CPIOs) in various work centres across the Company, in compliance of Sections 5(1) and 5(2) of the Act. The particulars of all the quasi-judicial authorities under the ambit of RTI Act, 2005 have been uploaded on the Company website (www.ongcindia.com) for information of the general public. Further, in compliance of Government directives, your Company is successfully processing the online applications under the Act.

Your Company received 1,973 applications (including 34 transferred by other Public Authorities) during FY'20, and 206 RTI applications were carried forward from FY'19. Against 1,848 applications information as sought were provided, 57 applications were rejected and 44 applications were transferred to other public authorities, in accordance with the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005. There were 422 first appeals, which were disposed-off during the period. Additionally, 94 Second Appeals which were listed for hearing before the Central Information Commission during FY'20 were also processed.

32. Implementation of Official Language Policy

Your Company makes concerted efforts for promotion and implementation of Official Language. In this regard, some of the steps taken during the year were:

Unicode Hindi software installed in all offices.

Hindi workshops conducted at regular intervals in all work centres.

Hindi technical seminars, ‘kavi-gosthies', kavi-sammelans and Hindi plays were organized at various work centres.

Various programmes for promotion of Hindi were organised at all work centres of the

Company during ‘Rajbhasha Fortnight' (14-28.09.2019) and ‘Vishwa Hindi Diwas' (10.01.2020).

17th Annual Official Language Review Meeting was held during 24-25.07.2019 at Guwahati.

A two days Special Hindi workshop and

‘Twarit Anuvad Prashikshan' program during 27-28.02.2020 for official language officers posted at various work centres of the Company and Members of Town Official Language Implementation Committee, Dehradun was organised.

Your Company bagged ‘Sarvotkrisht

Rajbhasha Puruskar' from ‘Vishwa Hindi Parishad' on 09.09.2019 at New Delhi.

Hindi Teaching Scheme of Government of India was implemented effectively at all regional work centres of the Company.

E-Roster of Employees regarding working knowledge of Hindi has been put in place.

Hindi e-magazines were published by all work centres.

Paperless office has been made bi-lingual for effective implementation of Official Language policy. Besides, Unicode has been installed in SAP platform for enabling bilingual working.

33. Sports

Your Company continued its support for development of sports in the country by providing employment opportunities to sportspersons and also granting scholarships to budding talents in 25 games. Your Company also sponsored various sports associations/ federations/ sports bodies for organizing sports events as well as developing sporting infrastructure. The support has enabled many sportspersons to achieve excel and bring home laurels for the nation and the organization. Some of the significant achievements of our sportspersons during the year were as follows:

Nine ONGCians participated in 21st Commonwealth Championships held at Cuttack, in July, 2019 and won 6 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze medal.

Mr. B. Sai Praneeth (Badminton), Mr. Harmeet

Desai (Table Tennis) and Ms. Swapna Barman (Athletics - On Scholarship) were conferred the prestigious "Arjuna Award" instituted by GoI, for FY'19.

The total number of National Awardees in the organization stood at 55:

o Padma Bhushan: 1 (Mr. Pankaj Advani);

o Padma Shri: 6 (Mr. Pankaj Advani, Mr. Koneru Humpy and Mr. Virat Kohli and three former ONGCians - Mr. Jaspal Rana, Mr. Virender Sehwag and Mr. Gautam Gambhir);

o Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: 2 (Mr. Pankaj Advani and Mr. Virat Kohli);

o Arjuna Award: 44;

o Dhyanchand Award – 2 (Mr. Bhupender Singh and Mr. Manpreet Singh).

Ms. M. R. Poovamma secured individual bronze medal for the country in Asian Championships at Doha and won 2 silver medals in relay races. Ms. Poovamma is also part of the Indian Squad which is being trained for 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Mr. Om Prakash Singh who is currently on training for Tokyo 2021, participated in the SAF games held at Kathmandu in December 2019. He won a silver medal in the games.

ONGCian Mr. Sai Praneeth is the first

Indian male badminton player in 36 years to win a bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in 2019 after Mr. Prakash Padukone in 1983. Sai Praneeth was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2019. He also won Bronze medal at the World Championships in Basel and Japan Open, 2019.

ONGCian Mr. Pankaj Advani, Padma Bhushan,

Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Awardee, won GOLD Medal in World Billiards Championship (150-up format), in Myanmar, Sept 2019, in Asian Snooker Tour, Bangalore, April 2019, IBSF World Team Snooker Championship, Myanmar, Sept 2019 and in ACBS Asian Snooker Championship, Qatar, June 2019.

He won Silver medal in ACBS Asian Team Snooker, Doha, June 2019, World Cup Snooker Team Championship, Qatar, July 2019 and brought Bronze medal for the country in IBSF World 6 Red Snooker Championship, Myanmar, Sept 2019 and in ACBS Asian Billiards Championship, Chandigarh, May 2019

Arjuna Awardee Mr. Shiva Thapa won Gold

Medal and was declared as Best Boxer in 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament at Guwahati in May 2019. Earlier in Asian Boxing Championship at Bangkok, Thailand in April 2019, he won Bronze Medal for India and Gold Medal in President's Cup International Boxing Tournament at Astana (Kazakhstan) in June 2019. Gold Medal in Olympic Test event at Tokyo in Oct 2019. Bronze Medal in 71st Boxing International Tournament Stranja Cup, at Stranja (Sofia) in Jan 2020.

Padmashri and Arjuna Awardee, Ms. Koneru

Humpy won the FIDE Women Grand Prix Tournament at Russia in Sept 2019 and finished 2nd in the FIDE Women Grand Prix Tournament, Monaco and established clear lead in the FIDE Women GP Series 2019-20 and won the World Women Rapid Chess Championship 2019, Russia in Dec 2019. She won the Cairns Cup Women International Tournament, St. Louis, USA in Feb 2020.

ONGCian Mr. Virat Kohli has been ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPN and one of the most valuable athlete brands by Forbes. In April 2019, he was named the captain of India's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

In Nov 2019, he scored his 70th century (27 Test and 43 ODI) in international cricket which makes him the second most successful centurion in ODI cricket after Sachin Tendulkar. Virat Kohli has been given honours as Captain of ICC ODI Team of the Year: 2019, ICC Test Team of the Year: 2019, ICC Spirit of Cricket: 2019.

Your Company organised the 3rd edition of the Para Games on 03.12.2019 on International Disability Day in which 210 PWDs from different work-centres of the Company including more than 20 players from 6 Oil PSUs participated. ONGC is the only public sector enterprise to organise Para Games to promote sporting talent of persons with disabilities.

34. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Your Company meticulously take care of its social responsibility and in this pursuit has spent Rs 6,069.67 Million during the FY'20, which is higher than spending obligations of the Company for the year. Major highlights of CSR activities for the FY'20, is as under:

60% of CSR expenditure towards School

Education, Nutrition and Healthcare as notified by DPE for CSR of CPSE's in 2019-20;

33% of CSR Budget executed towards

Swachhta Projects as directed by MoPNG;

CSR expenditure aligned towards achieving the objectives of UN Sustainable Development Goals, covering 12 out of 17 sustainable development goals;

20 Aspirational Districts adopted in 11 states where 599 projects have been implemented amounting to Rs 61.51 Million benefitting 4 lakhs rural population;

4.30 Lakh patients benefitted through healthcare initiatives; and

4.98 Lakh students benefitted through educational initiatives.

A report on CSR and details of enclosed with this report at Annexure-B.

Efforts of the Company has been recognized at various forums including the prestigious International recognition of S&P Platts Global Energy Awards, 2019 – the only Indian company to receive this award for CSR. Other host of awards are placed at Annexure-C of this Report.

35. Awards and Accolades

Consistent with the trend in preceding years, your Company, its various operating units and its senior management have been recipients of various awards and recognitions. Detail of such accolades is placed at Annexure-C.

36. Regulatory or Courts order

During FY'20, there was no order or direction of any court or tribunal or regulatory authority which either affecting Company's status as a going concern or which significantly affecting Company's business operations.

37. Directors' Responsibility Statement

Pursuant to the requirement under Section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013, with respect to Directors' Responsibility Statement, it is hereby confirmed that:

a) In the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards were followed and there was no material departures from the same;

b) The Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that were reasonable and prudent, so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31.03.2020 and of the profit of the Company for the year ended on that date;

c) The Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the is provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

d) The Directors had prepared the annual accounts of the Company on a ‘going concern' basis;

e) The Directors had laid down internal financial controls which were being followed by the Company and that such internal financial controls were adequate and were operating effectively; and

f) The Directors had devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems are adequate and operating effectively.

38. Corporate Governance

A detailed report on Corporate Governance as stipulated under Regulation 34(3) of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 is appended and forms part of the Annual Report.

39. Statutory Disclosures

YourDirectorshavemadenecessarydisclosures, as required under various enactments including the Companies Act, 2013 and the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.

40. Annual Return

Pursuant to Section 134(3)(a) read with Section

92(1) of the Act, Annual Return of the Company is placed at https://www.ongcindia.com/wps/ wcm/connect/en/investors/annual-return/

41. Particulars of Employees

Your Company being a Government Company, the provisions of Section 197(12) of the Companies Act, 2013 and relevant Rules issued thereunder are not applicable.

The terms and conditions of the appointment of Functional Directors are subject to the applicable guidelines issued by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), Government of India. The salary and terms and conditions of the appointment of Company Secretary, a Key Managerial Person of the Company, and other employees are also in line with the parameters prescribed by the DPE.

42. Energy Conservation

The information required under section 134(3) (m) of the Companies Act, 2013, read with the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, is annexed as Annexure-D.

43. Audit Committee

In compliance with Section 177(8) of the Companies Act, 2013, the details regarding Audit Committee is provided under Corporate Governance Report which forms part of this Annual Report.

There was no instance during FY'20, where the Board had not accepted any recommendation of the Audit Committee.

44. Vigil Mechanism:

Details regarding Vigil Mechanism is provided under Corporate Governance report which forms part of this Annual Report.

45. Risk Management Policy and Implementation:

The Company has a Board approved Risk Management Policy. Risk framework and Risk portfolio are periodically monitored by the Risk Management Committee, Audit Committee and the Board.

46. Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company are appointed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). There were 6 chartered accountants firms namely M/s. MKPS & Associates, M/s. G.M. Kapadia & Co., M/s. R.

Gopal & Associates, M/s. Kalani & Co., M/s. SARC & Associates and M/s. R.G.N. Price & Co. who were appointed as Joint Statutory Auditors of the Company for FY'20.

The Statutory Auditors have been paid a total remuneration of Rs 46.97 Million towards audit fees, certification and other services. The above fees are inclusive of applicable service tax/ GST but exclusive of re-imbursement of travelling and out of pocket expenses.

47. Auditors' Report on the Accounts

Statutory Auditors Reports and the comments of CAG on standalone and consolidated accounts of the Company are placed along with respective financial statements for FY'20.

There is no qualification in the Statutory Auditors Reports on the Financial Statements of the Company for FY'20.

The Comments of Comptroller & Auditor General of India (C&AG) and the reply of the Management thereto form part of this Report, is annexed as Annexure-E.

During FY'20, there has not been any fraud reported by the Auditors of the Company.

48. Cost Audit

There were 6 cost accountants firms, namely M/s. M. Krishnaswamy & Associates, M/s. Musib & Co., M/s. Chandra Wadhwa & Co., M/s. Bandopadhyaya Bhaumik & Co., M/s. N. D. Birla & Co., M/s. Joshi Apte & Associates, appointed by the Board as Joint Cost Auditors of the Company for FY'20. Necessary cost audit report shall be prepared by the said auditors and filed with the Central Government as per requirements under the Companies Act, 2013.

49. Secretarial Audit

Your Company had engaged M/s. Ashu Gupta & Co., Company Secretaries in whole-time practice, as Secretarial Auditors for conducting Secretarial Audit for FY'20. Their report is enclosed as Annexure-F, which shall form part of this Report.

Reply of management to the qualifications made in the Secretarial Audit Reports are as under:-

1. Board Composition & Evaluation:

The Company, being a CPSE, composition of its Board of Directors is the prerogative of the President of India as provided under the Articles of Association of the Company. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) vide notifications dated 05.06.2015 and 05.07.2017 exempted government companies from the provisions relating to appointment, performance evaluation and remuneration of directors. Further, it is learnt that Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has recommended the proposal to SEBI for similar exemption to government companies under the provisions of Listing Regulations in view of the distinct nature of the administration of CPSEs.

2. Related Party Transaction (RPT):

In terms of RPT Policy, all the contracts/ arrangements/ transactions entered by the Company during FY'20 with related parties were in the ordinary course of business and on an arm's length basis. Transactions with related parties have been disclosed under Annexure-A to this report. SEBI Regulations provide for prior approval of related party transactions excepting the transactions with government companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries.

The qualification is with respect to the requirement for prior omnibus approval under Regulation 23 of the Listing Regulations, since such approval was accorded by the Audit Committee at the meeting held on 26.07.2019. In this regard, necessary system is put in place to avoid this technical non-compliance in future.

50. Directors

Your Company being a Government Company, policy on directors' appointment and remuneration is not applicable and also evaluation of their performance is exempted vide notification dated 05.06.2015 issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Appointments/Cessation etc.

Since the 26th Annual General Meeting held on 30.08.2019, change in composition of Board is as under-

i. S/Shri Ajai Malhotra, Shirish B Kedare and

K M Padmanabhan, Independent Directors, ceased to be the directors of the Company w.e.f. 20.11.2019.

ii. S/Shri Sumit Bose, Deepak Sethi and Vivek Mallya Independent Directors, ceased to be the directors of the Company w.e.f. 31.01.2020.

iii. Shri Santrupt B Misra, Independent Director, ceased to be the director of the Company w.e.f. 06.02.2019.

iv. Shri Rajesh Madanlal Aggarwal, has been nominated by MoPNG as Government Nominee Director w.e.f. 24.03.2020, in place of Shri Rajiv Bansal.

v. Shri Om Prakash Singh has been appointed as the Director (Technology & Field Services) of the Company w.e.f 01.04.2020, in place of Shri Navin Chandra Pandey, who superannuated on 31.03.2020.

vi. Shri Anurag Sharma has been appointed as the Director (Onshore) of the Company w.e.f 01.06.2020, in place of Shri Sanjay Kumar Moitra, who superannuated on 31.05.2020.

The Board places on record its appreciation for commendable contribution of S/Shri Ajai Malhotra, Shirish B Kedare, K M Padmanabhan, Sumit Bose, Deepak Sethi, Vivek Mallya, Santrupt B Misra, Rajiv Bansal, Navin Chandra

Pandey and Sanjay Kumar Moitra during their tenure on the Board of your Company.

As on 31.03.2020, there were 11 Directors (including two women Directors) on the Board, comprising of 7 Executive Directors (including the Chairman and Managing Director) and

4 Non-Executive Directors - 2 Government Nominee Directors and 2 Independent Directors. There was vacancy for 7 Independent Directors to meet the requirement under the provisions of Companies Act, 2013 as well as Listing Regulations, 2015.

51. Acknowledgement

Your Directors are highly grateful for all the help, guidance and support received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Finance, DPE, MCA, MEA, and other agencies in Central and State Governments. Your Directors acknowledge the constructive suggestions received from Auditors and Comptroller and

Auditor General of India and are grateful for their continued support and cooperation.

Your Directors thank all share-owners, business partners and all members of the ONGC Family for their faith, trust and confidence reposed in the Board.

Your Directors wish to place on record their sincere appreciation for the unstinting efforts and dedicated contributions put in by the ONGCians at all levels, in spite of the challenging and unprecedented pandemic situation, to ensure that the Company continues to sustain, grow and excel.

	On behalf of the Board of Directors
	Sd/-
New Delhi	Shashi Shanker
01.09.2020	Chairman and Managing Director

   

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Company Background

Subhash KumarSubhash Kumar

Incorporation Year	1993
Registered Office	P No 5 Nelson Mandela Road,Vasant Kunj New Delhi,New Delhi-110070
Telephone	91-011-26754073/79,Managing Director
Fax	91-011-26129091
Company Secretary	M E V Selvamm
Auditor	MKPS & Associates/R Gopal & Associates/Kalani & Co
Face Value	5
Market Lot	1
Listing	BSE,MSEI ,NSE,
Registrar	Alankit Assignments Ltd Alankit Heights ,1E/13 Jhandewalan Ex, ,New Delhi-110055

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Company Management

Director Name	Director Designation	Year
Amar Nath	Nominee (Govt)	2020
M E V Selvamm	Company Secretary	2020
Subhash Kumar	CMD & Director (Finance)	2020
Alka Mittal	Director (Human Resources)	2020
Amitava Bhattacharyya	Non-Exec. & Independent Dir.	2020
Rajesh Kumar Srivastava	Director (Explorations)	2020
Rajesh Aggarwal	Nominee (Govt)	2020
Om Prakash Singh	Director (Technology & FS)	2020
Anurag Sharma	Director (Onshore)	2020

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Listing Information

Listing Information
BSE_SENSEX
NIFTY
BSE_500
BSE_100
BSE_200
BSEDOLLEX
BSE_PSU
CNX500
BSEOIL
CNXENERGY
CNX100
CNXINFRAST
CNX_PSE
CNX200
CNXCOMMODI
CNXDIVIDEN
BSECARBONE
NFT100LQ15
CPSE
NIFTY50V20
BSEINFRA
BSECPSE
NFT100EQWT
BSEALLCAP
BSELARGECA
BSEENERGY
SENSEX50
BSEBHARA22
LMI250
BSEDSI
BSEEVI
NFT50EQWT
BSE100LTMC

Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Finished Product

Product Name	Unit	Installed Capacity	Production Quantity	Sales Quantity	Sales Value
Oil-Crude	MT	0	0	21340755	64836.314
Natural Gas (000'M3)	NM3	0	0	19423386	19355.588
Naphtha	MT	0	0	1177420	3986.31
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	MT	0	0	1011323	3603.783
Ethane	MT	0	0	535391	1293.688
Ethane/Propane	MT	0	0	345536	815.541
Propane	MT	0	0	219328	725.122
Butane	MT	0	0	124908	420.774
Superior Kerosene Oil	MT	0	0	54802	246.503
High Speed Diesel Oil	MT	0	0	42111	239.004
North-East Gas Subsidy	NA	0	0	0	229.585
Surplus from Gas Pool Account	NA	0	0	0	130.82
A T F	MT	0	0	18233	88.926
Low Sulphur Heavy Stock	MT	0	0	27727	74.655
Sale of Electricity	NA	0	0	0	66.838
Pipeline TransportationReceipt	NA	0	0	0	35.203
Contractual Short Lifted Gas	NA	0	0	0	25.467
Processing Charges	NA	0	0	0	24.29
Mineral Turpentine Oil	MT	0	0	3389	15.198
Heavy Cut	MT	0	0	0	0
Light Diesel Oil	MT	0	0	0	0
Superior Kerosene Oil-Traded	KL	0	0	0	0
High Diesel gas oil - Traded	KL	0	0	0	0
High Speed Diesel Oil	KL	0	0	0	0
Adventitious Gain	Rs.	0	0	0	0
Other Operating Revenue	NA	0	0	0	0
Others	Rs.	0	0	0	0
Production Bonus	NA	0	0	0	0
Transportation Receipts	Rs.	0	0	0	0
Price Revision Arrears	Rs.	0	0	0	0
Naphtha-Aromatic Rich	MT	0	0	0	0
Gasolene-Natural	MT	0	0	0	0
Motor Spirit	KL	0	0	0	0
Motor Spirit-Traded	MT	0	0	0	0
Superior Kerosene Oil	KL	0	0	0	0