The Indian Petroleum/Oil Industry is one of the oldest in the whole world and the sector in the recent years is facing low reserve accretion, declining crude production and increasing consumption of oil products.

India is the fourth largest oil consumption country in Asia with a demand for 100 million tone, even though on a per capital basis the consumption is just 0.1 tonne, which makes the prospects of this industry more challenging. The names of some of the public sector and government organizations in oil sector offering employment opportunities to a number of people in India are given below:

Government Oil Companies in India:

• Oil India Limited

• GAIL India Limited

• Indraprastha Gas Limited

• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited

• Indian Oil Corporation Limited

• Guru Gobind Singh Refineries Limited

These government organizations in the oil sector of India are offering different job positions and the details of the same are given below:

Different Job Opportunities available in Government Oil Sector:

As any other sector, oil sector also includes technical and non-technical job positions and some of the technical positions available in the Government oil sector of India are given below:

• Engineer Officers

• Technical Assistants

• Electrical Engineering Assistants

• Telecom & Instrumentation Engineering Assistants

• Pipelines Director

• Assistant Chemists

• Chemists

• Refineries Director

Technical Positions:

As far as the oil sector is concerned, most of the technical jobs are meant for engineering graduates. Candidates with engineering graduation/diploma in branches like chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, instrumentation engineering is suitable for different technical positions in the oil sector.

How to find jobs in oil sector?

Candidates can look for notifications issued by oil companies like Indian Oil Corporation and other companies mentioned earlier from the employment newspapers. Frequently visiting the website of the aforesaid companies will be useful for the candidates to get information about recruitments by these organizations since some companies do not advertise about the vacancies in newspapers, rather they post them in the career link in their own website.

Educational Qualification:

As mentioned earlier, candidates who have completed their engineering degree/diploma in branches like chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and instrumentation engineering are suitable for this sector. Also, candidates with B. Pharm, M. Pharm, B. Sc/M. Sc chemistry can also apply to oil companies since they require these graduates as well for their technical field.

Other job positions in Oil Sector:

Apart from above-mentioned technical position, these oil sector companies also call for candidates belonging to other areas of education like accounts, management, human resource, business administration, medicine, company secretaryship, etc…

With the ever increasing consumption and demand of oil products in India, oil sector is always on the growth path and the industry is always on the lookout for appropriate candidates for keeping pace with the increasing demand. Recently Indian Oil Corporation opened up a number of job opportunities for different positions like lab technician, staff nurse, pharmacist, etc…which clearly indicates that the industry searches not only for candidates with technical knowledge in their field, but is also searching for candidates belonging to other areas of education as well.