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Across the seas, across the continents, for India. ONGC Videsh employees reconnected through mass demonstrations of yoga around the world. A symphony of sorts, the celebration of International Yoga Day gave an opportunity to all to craft a balance between body and mind. Stories from Delhi and world over: Delhi Mr NK Verma, MD, with Mr PK Rao, Director (Operations) and Mr Sudhir Sharma, Director (Exploration) along with other enthusiasts participated in a small yoga event organised at the atrium of Kailash building where the head office of ONGC Videsh is located. Mr Shankar Thakur, DGM (Geophy.) and Mr JK Sahni, Manager-HR (retired), ...

ONGBV, Country Office, Khartoum organized a Community Development Program in Village Alhala  Algedida in Ombadda Area recently and provided Solar Street Light systems to the village with an objective to improve the quality of life of local public. Earlier ONGBV had conducted free Medical Camp in this village last year which was inaugurated by Mr PK Rao, Director(Ops) who noticed lack of electricity power in the area and suggested to take new initiative for providing solar lights to this village. Accordingly, the Country Manager, Head HR and CD Coordinator surveyed the entire village and provided five solar street lights with the ...

On 2nd October 2014, PM Mr Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission at Rajpath in New Delhi. “A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019,” he proclaimed. Just a kilometer away, at ONGC Videsh, employees and members of the Board took the Swacchta Pledge on June 16, 2016 and reiterated their commitment to create the India of Gandhi’s dreams. ONGC Videsh takes the Swachhta Pledge Swachh Bharat Mission was launched across the country as a national movement two years ago. “While the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has taken the ...

An insightful talk on ‘Strategic Security Concepts’ with special reference to ONGC Videsh operations at the ONGC Videsh, Delhi office by Mr Krishan Varma, former Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India,  kept the executives and the Board of Directors spellbound for over an hour. The talk was organized by the security team of ONGC Videsh, spearheaded by the ED- Security, ONGC, Mr DC Srivastava.   ED Chief Security enumerates the security challenges ED Security in his welcome address underlined the need for such a discourse in view of the fragile global security scenario. “As ED-Security, I plan to bring the ...

World Environment Day was observed under the aegis of United Nations Environment Programme on the theme ‘Go Wild for Life’ to raise awareness towards illegal wildlife trade and environment and to take positive actions to protect the planet Earth. Employees and families of ONGC Videsh participated with enthusiasm in various competitions surpassing the previous record, indicating increasing awareness and commitment towards the environment. Awareness drive was carried out by HSE Group for one week on various topics related to the environment. Mr. Narendra K. Verma, MD & CEO through his message to employees asked their individual commitment not only to change themselves, ...

Background: ONGC Videsh Ltd. is a Miniratna Schedule “A” Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE). It is the wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), the flagship national oil company (NOC) of India having net worth of around INR 1,84,000 crores. The primary business of ONGC Videsh is to prospect for oil and gas fields outside India, including exploration, development and production of oil and gas. ONGC Videsh owns Participating Interests in 37 oil and gas assets in 17 countries and contributes to 14.8% of oil and 12.5 % of oil and natural gas production ...