ONGC is one of the largest E&P Company in India with in-house service capabilities in all the activity areas of exploration and production of oil & gas and related oil-field services. The state-of-the-art technologies inducted and absorbed over the years such as depth domain processing, stratigraphic inversion, advanced volume based interpretation tools, stochastic lithofacies modeling using neural network, spectral decomposition, geo-statistical modeling, etc.
“Dedicated to excellence by leveraging competitive advantages in R&D and technology with involved people” – Mission of ONGC
Committee of ONGC Institutes
As India’s premier Maharatna, ONGC has pioneered in research and technology development in the country, setting up twelve world-class Institutes under the aegis of ‘Committee of ONGC Institutes’ or ‘COIN’. These twelve institutes have become the backbone of India’s hydrocarbon industry and support the entire spectrum of Oil and Gas production, which begins at the well bore and culminates at the consumer point.
EPINET
ONGC has set benchmarks for industry to follow. ONGC has setup EPINET, through which a live E&P information network and a virtual database has been developed for Basin & Petroleum System Modeling of various basins. Through SCADA all production and drilling executives at different levels utilize and reap benefits of online SCADA data for enhanced operational efficiency and productivity.
3-D virtual reality centers
ONGC has set up four 3-D virtual reality centers known as 'Third Eye' for real time dissemination and information of onshore and offshore applications. These centers are used for exploration and production activities including real-time surveillance of producing oil and gas fields thus helping ONGC network all its centers together by parallel computing technologies for all the major projects.
Project ICE
Project ICE (Information Consolidation for Efficiency) is ONGC's flagship enterprise digital transformation programme, conceived from the strategic vision of the organization's leadership to establish "One Organization, One Data and One Information, it unifies core business functions including Finance, Materials Management, Human Resources, Production Revenue Accounting, Technical Services, Project Systems, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Enterprise Analytics into a single digital ecosystem. Supporting operations across more than 500 locations, 24,000 users, and 23 SAP modules, the platform enables standardized business processes, real-time information sharing, enterprise-wide collaboration, and resilient 24×7 mission-critical operations on the latest SAP S/4HANA platform with a robust three-site disaster recovery architecture.
Since its inception, with the rollout of SAP R/3 in 2004, Project ICE has continuously evolved through ECC enhancements, SAP HANA migration, SAP S/4HANA transformation, Master Data Governance initiatives, and enterprise modernization programs. Under the leadership of the CIO and Head ICE, supported by multidisciplinary functional and technical competency teams, Project ICE continues to drive ONGC's digital transformation agenda by leveraging emerging technologies such as SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Fiori, Advanced Analytics, Cloud Transformation, and Intelligent Automation to build a future-ready, data-driven enterprise.
To support ONGC’s growing business and digital transformation objectives, the organization is embarking on its SAP RISE journey to accelerate platform modernization, cloud readiness, AI-enabled innovation, and operational excellence. Over the next 2–3 years, this roadmap will strengthen a scalable, intelligent, and future-ready enterprise ecosystem aligned with industry-leading OEM standards.
Collaboration with Indian Institutes of Technology
In early 2015, ONGC signed a Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC) with seven IITs for developing indigenous technologies to enhance exploration and production of hydrocarbons and alternate energy sources. Under the MoC, ONGC's R&D Institutes and the IITs shall jointly undertake advanced research and development projects for the exploration and production (E&P) sector of the country in general and oilfield specific activities of ONGC in particular.
