ONGC

Oil and Nutural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is India's Most valuable Company, having a market share of above 80% in India's Crude Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production. Its production of Crude Oil in2003-04 was 26.7 MMT and of Natural Gas 25.70 Billion Cubic Meters.

Company is placed at the top of all Indian Corporates listed in Forbes 400 Global Corporates (rank 133rd) and Financial Times Global 500 (rank 326th), by Market Capitalization amounting around USD 27 billion.

Owns and operates more than 11000 kilometres of pipelines in India, including nearly 3200 kilometers of sub-sea pipelines.

CAIRN ENERGY

Cairn Energy is an Oil & Gas company based in Scotland. Cairn is involved in a range of E & P activities ranging from scouting of acreage, mapping of prospects through seismic surveys, offshore and onshore oil drilling, pipelines installation etc.

The group has its operations in United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Australia and Netherland. Cairn has now a growing presence in India as an active E & P company.