{"id":1760,"date":"2019-06-21T04:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:43:03","slug":"ongc-became-indias-most-profitable-public-sector-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ongc-became-indias-most-profitable-public-sector-company\/","title":{"rendered":"ONGC became Indias most profitable public sector company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC),<\/strong>&nbsp;India&#8217;s top oil and gas producer, has toppled<strong>Indian Oil Corp (IOC)<\/strong>&nbsp;to\nregain the crown of being the&nbsp;<strong>country&#8217;s\nmost profitable public sector company.&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\nOil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) reported a 34%\njump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to<strong>&nbsp;Rs.26,716\ncrore.&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\nWhereas, IOC registered a net profit of&nbsp;<strong>Rs.17.274&nbsp;<\/strong>crore\nfor the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019.&nbsp;<br>\nONGC, in the previous two financial years, had\nlost the most profitable PSU tag to IOC. With its refining margins under\npressure due to falling oil prices, IOC had also lost the title of being\nIndia&#8217;s largest company by turnover tag to billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led\nReliance Industries in FY19.&nbsp;<br>\nReliance has been India&#8217;s most profitable\ncompany for the fourth year in a row.<br><strong>Oil\nand Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC):<\/strong><br><strong>Founded\non:<\/strong>&nbsp;14 August 1956<br><strong>Headquarters:&nbsp;<\/strong>New Delhi, India<br><strong>Chairman\n&amp; MD:&nbsp;<\/strong>Shashi Shankar<br><strong>Owner:<\/strong>&nbsp;Government Of India<br>\nONGC is an Indian multinational oil and gas\ncompany.<br>\nIt is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under\nthe administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.<br>\nIt produces around 70% of India&#8217;s crude oil and\naround 62% of natural gas.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC),&nbsp;India&#8217;s top oil and gas producer, has toppledIndian Oil Corp (IOC)&nbsp;to regain the crown of being the&nbsp;country&#8217;s most profitable public sector company.&nbsp; Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) reported a 34% jump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to&nbsp;Rs.26,716 crore.&nbsp; Whereas, IOC registered a net profit of&nbsp;Rs.17.274&nbsp;crore for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}