Indian PNG Statistics 1987 - 1988

Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Statistics 1987–88 provides comprehensive statistical information on India’s petroleum industry, covering industry highlights, important events, historical progress, exploration, crude oil and natural gas reserves and production, refining, consumption, foreign trade, manpower and prices. It combines current-year statistics with long-term historical series for sectoral analysis.

About Dataset

Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Statistics 1987–88 presents a comprehensive statistical overview of India’s petroleum industry, documenting developments during 1987–88 alongside historical information extending from 1947–48. The General section covers industry highlights, important events in the history of the petroleum industry during 1987–88, progress from 1947–48 to 1987–88, commodity balances of crude petroleum and petroleum products, industry growth on calendar- and financial-year bases, and petroleum-energy trends from 1982 onward. The Exploration section provides statistics on deployment of deep drilling rigs, wells and metreage drilled by ONGC and OIL, exploratory and development drilling, well status, and state-wise achievements of geological, geophysical and drilling field parties. Crude oil statistics cover reserves and company-wise production on calendar- and financial-year bases. Natural gas statistics include reserves, state-wise gross production, gross and net production, utilisation and industry-wise offtakes. The Refining section covers refining capacity, refinery crude throughput, petroleum-product production, refinery-wise crude runs, domestic production trends and refinery production patterns. Consumption and Sales statistics include total consumption, sales trends, product-wise consumption,

Purpose of Dataset

The purpose of this publication is to provide a consolidated statistical reference on India’s petroleum industry during 1987–88, supported by historical series for analysing the sector’s development. It compiles information on exploration, drilling, crude oil and natural gas reserves and production, refining, sales, consumption, foreign trade, manpower and prices. Calendar-year and financial-year statistics enable comparison across periods, while company-wise and state-wise information supports detailed analysis of petroleum activities. The publication also records important industry events, commodity balances and petroleum-energy trends. It serves policymakers, government agencies, petroleum companies, researchers, planners and analysts requiring structured statistical information on India’s petroleum sector.