Oil and natural gas corporation, Ltd.

• ONGC ranks 3rd Oil & Gas Exploration & Production (E&P) Company in the world and 23rd among leading global energy majors as per Platts 250 Global Energy Companies List for the year 2009 • ONGC ranks 24th among the Global publicly-listed Energy companies as per ‘PFC Energy 50” (Jan 2008) • Finance Asia 100 list ranks ONGC no 1 among Indian Blue Chips. • Occupies 155th rank in “Forbes Global 2000” list 2010 of the world’s biggest companies for 2010 based on sales, profits, assets and market capitalisation. • ONGC ranked 402nd position as per Fortune Global 500 - 2009 list;, based on revenues, profits, assets and shareholder’s equity. ONGC has single-handedly scripted India’s hydrocarbon saga by: • Establishing 6.89 billion tonnes of In-place hydrocarbon reserves with more than 300 discoveries of oil and gas; in fact, 6 out of the 7 producing basins have been discovered by ONGC: out of these In-place hydrocarbons in domestic acreages, Ultimate Reserves are 2.42 Billion Metric tonnes (BMT) of Oil Plus Oil Equivalent Gas (O+OEG). •Cumulatively produced 803 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of crude and 485 Billion Cubic Meters (BCM) of Natural Gas, from 111 fields. •ONGC has bagged 120 of the 238 Blocks (more than 50%) awarded in the 8 rounds of bidding, under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) of the Indian Government. ONGC has bagged 17 out of 31 blocks awarded in NELP round VIII (14 as operator). • ONGC’s wholly-owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) is the biggest Indian multinational, with 40 Oil & Gas projects (9 of them producing) in 15 countries, i.e. Vietnam, Sudan, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Myanmar, Libya, Cuba, Colombia, Nigeria, Nigeria Sao Tome JDZ, Egypt, Brazil, Syria and Venezuela. OVL had invested around Rs 50,000 Crores (Approx 10 billion US dollars).