India is the fourth-largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) importer after Japan, South Korea and China, and accounts for 5.8 per cent of the total global trade.Domestic LNG demand is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16.89 per cent to 306.54 MMSCMD by 2021 from 64 MMSCMD in 2015.

The State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) dominates the upstream segment of exploration and production, producing around 25.93 MT of crude oil, which is approximately 60.5 per cent of the country�s 36.95 MT oil output, as of March 2016.