ONGC Appoints Mr. Om Prakash Sinha as Director (Exploration)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd. has appointed Mr. Om Prakash Sinha as Director (Exploration). This information was shared by the company in its stock filing dated 14th July 2025.
Mr. Sinha completed B.Tech in Petroleum Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (earlier Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad in 1987. He has over 37 years of professional experience at ONGC, spanning across areas of exploration, field development, and reservoir management. He has held several key positions at ONGC, which include heading the Institute of Reservoir Studies (IRS), an R&D unit of ONGC. He has also served as Sub-Surface Manager of ONGC’s Assam Asset. Apart from this, Mr. Sinha has held important roles at ONGC’s Geodata Processing and Interpretation Centre (GEOPIC), and has played a significant role in ONGC’s Project Information Consolidation for Efficiency (ICE), an initiative by the company to integrate its data and processes into a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform.
Mr. Sinha has been serving as the Executive Director of the company since April 2021. As per ONGC’s release, “In present changing energy-mix scenario he has also played pivotal role in conceptualizing projects on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage for carbon emission abatement to reach Net-Zero targets”.
