World's 10 Most Powerful Indian Public Companies

#3 Oil and Natural Gas (World Rank: 176): ONGC was set up under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and founder Shri Keshav Das Malviya in 1955, under Geological Survey of India. ONGC has been transforming the oil and gas sector by adding and establishing premier new oil provinces across Gujarat and Assam. It even discovered the giant oil field, Bombay High in early 70s now Mumbai High. Today ONGC contributes 72 percent to India’s total production of crude oil and 48 percent of natural gas.

It has established more than 7 billion Tonnes of in place hydrocarbon reserves in India. It produces more than 1.27 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

#4 ICICI Bank (World Rank: 304): ICICI Bank is the largest private sector bank in India, headed by Chanda Kochhar, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Director of ICICI Bank. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and group of companies. ICICI Bank was established by the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI), an Indian financial institution, as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1955.Consequent to the merger of ICICI and ICICI Bank in 2002, all operations have been integrated in a single entity.

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