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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

PETROLEUM AND EXPLOSIVES SAFETY ORGANISATION The Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) with its headquarter at Nagpur and a network of five Circle Offices, 18 Sub-circle offices and Central Testing Station has been continuing to serve the public and industry for over one hundred years in all matters relating to safety in manufacture, storage, transport and handling of explosives, petroleum, compressed gases and other hazardous substances through comprehensive administration of Explosives Act, 1884, Petroleum Act, 1934, Inflammable Substances Act, 1952 and rules framed there under viz. Explosives Rules, 2008, Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004, Static and Mobile Pressure Vessels (Unfired) Rules, 1981, Petroleum Rules, 2002, Calcium Carbide Rules, 1987 and Cinematographic Films Rules, 1948. The dark and light blue circular logo has the Ashoka Lion ensign in the middle and its name in name in Devanagari and English at the bottom and its motto ‘Suraksha Sarvopari’ on top. At the botto