Oil & Gas Upstream Industry Vision 2050 Charted Out at the Upstream Ahead Sum

The first edition of ‘Upstream Ahead – Oil & Gas Exploration & Production – Towards Vision 2050’ summit was held on February 11-12, 2021, under the aegis of MoPNG and DGH, providing a platform for all key stakeholders to come together and drive powerful solution-based dialogues for a smooth way forward. Hosted by ONGC, OIL, Cairn Oil & Gas (Vedanta Ltd.), and HOEC, the summit witnessed six Insight sessions, five Spotlight sessions, two High-Intensity Discussions Chaired by the Secretary, MoPNG, Shri Tarun Kapoor and Shri Ravi Agrawal, Additional Secretary, MoEF&CC, and two Special Interactive Sessions on Gender Diversity & Inclusion, and Youth in the Energy Sector. The one-of-its-kind virtual summit hosted intellectual panels of more than 70 speakers from the Oil & Gas Industry across the globe, along with experts from Financial/Academic Institutions, Regulatory authorities & Central Ministries, Service providers, Consulting firms, and Institutions like NITI Aayog, World Energy Congress, MNRE, DPIIT, FICCI, etc. with registered participants reaching a grand number of 7,000 (+). This magnificent virtual summit, well accommodating the needs of any offline conclave, was successfully managed by Social Friendly. In the backdrop of Honourable Prime Minister’s clarion call for Aatmanirbhar Bharat, seeking progress in the upstream sector is crucial to reducing our nation’s import dependence. With large resources unexplored, ongoing onshore and offshore surveys, and data availability for better analysis, the sector is provided with immense possibilities and requires all stakeholders to get on board as a team in this journey towards Vision 2050, said Shri Tarun Kapoor, Secretary, MoPNG. According to Shri SCL Das, DG, DGH, the discourses of this well-structured summit aid to deliver in short packages as part of a continuum, embedded in the commonly shared belief about the future. The event is a curtain-raiser, engaging all the stakeholders and bringing a ‘Thinking Element’ into the whole exercise, he added.