Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Lobbying Overview: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) exhibits limited engagement that is both supportive and oppositional with science-aligned climate policy. ONGC appears to support climate action and the role of renewable technologies to transition the energy mix in India. However, it continues to promote fossil gas as an essential part of India’s energy mix.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: ONGC appears to have had limited top-line communications on climate change in 2021-25. In its 2023-24 Annual Report published in August 2024, the company provided misrepresenting information on the role of natural gas, suggesting it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. InfluenceMap was unable to ascertain the company’s position on India’s 2070 net-zero target in the same report. I Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: ONGC discloses limited details of its engagement with climate change regulations on its corporate website. In a September 2024 LinkedIn post, the company called for a carbon market to be set up in India similar to China. Further, in a December 2024 Energy Connect article, chairman and CEO Arun Kumar Singh also appeared to support the establishment of a carbon market. Apart from these instances, InfluenceMap has not been able to identify other examples of the company’s engagement with climate policy.
Positioning on Energy Transition: ONGC supports the development of renewable technologies to transition the energy mix, but also appears to advocate for fossil gas as an integral part of India’s energy system. In March 2025, through an X post chairman and CEO Arun Kumar Singh supported the Oilfields (Amendment) Bill, 2024. This bill aims to expand domestic oil and gas production by amending the existing laws.
Moreover, in a February 2024 S&P Global article, Singh advocated for the long-term role of oil and gas in the energy mix. However, in an April 2023 PV Magazine article, the company also stated support for government policy and funding to develop offshore wind power.
Industry Association Governance: ONGC has disclosed its memberships to various industry associations in its 2023-24 Annual Report, published in August 2024. However, the company did not provide details of its engagement with industry associations, nor has it published a detailed review of its alignment with its industry associations. ONGC is a member of Confederation of Indian Industry and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), both of which support climate policy in India, but advocate for a continued role of fossil fuels. The company’s CEO is the chairman of the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI), which appears to advocate for the long-term role of oil and gas in the energy mix.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.
Additional Note: ONGC is headquartered in India, where InfluenceMap’s LobbyMap platform can currently only make a provisional assessment of corporate climate policy engagement, due to limited capability to access publicly available data on this issue. As it is possible that InfluenceMap is not yet able to fully capture evidence of ONGC's climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.
In addition, ONGC is a listed company with more than 50% of its shares owned by the government of India. State-owned enterprises likely retain channels of direct and private engagement with government officials that InfluenceMap is unable to assess, and therefore are not represented in ONGC's engagement intensity metric.