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BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED

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BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED Bharat Petroleum is India’s ‘best performing’ Maharatna Public Sector Undertaking and is an oil refining, exploration and marketing conglomerate. In 1928, Asiatic Petroleum (India) joined hands with the Burmah Oil Company, an active producer, refiner and distributor of petroleum products, particularly in Indian and Burmese markets to form the Burmah-Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India Limited. On January 24,1976, as a 100% public sector enterprise, Bharat Refineries Limited, acquired complete ownership of Burmah Shell’s interests in India, including the largest refinery and a nationwide marketing organisation. Bharat Refineries Limited was later named as Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. 'Those golden drops of Oil' - this is what is commonly seen as Bharat Petroleum’s logo. However, the genesis of this unique symbol takes one back several centuries to the ancient Chinese civilisation, where a similar

OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LIMITED

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OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LIMITED   Oil and NAtural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is the largest crude oil and natural gas Company in India, contributing around 71 per cent to Indian domestic production. ONGC Videsh Limited, a Miniratna Schedule A Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) of the Government of India under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, is the wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). ONGC made changes in the old Vasudhara symbol, the name of its first oil well on August 14, 2004, to give it a corporate identity. The colour of the new logo represent the sun and the earth. It depicts the image of a flowing well (Vasudhara means flow of wealth), which is vibrant, full of life and active all the time. The logo, the flow lines are open and the word ONGC, both in English and Hindi, is displayed prominently and the state-run firm's message line 'Making