Keshava Deva Malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration

Abstract

The Keshava Deva Malaviya Institute of Petroleum
Exploration, a premier R&D Institute of ONGC was
set up in 1962 to provide geo-scientific back up to the
exploratory efforts of India’s National Oil Company,
ONGC. The institute was rechristened as Keshava
Deva Malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration
(KDMIPE) from the existing Research and Training
Institute (R&TI), on 19th December 1981 in memory
of founding father of Indian Petroleum industry – Late
Keshava Deva Malaviya.
Through its sheer competence, the Institute
earned its reputation as being the mother R&D
institute of ONGC. With enhancement of exploration
and development activities and new discoveries,
especially Mumbai High, eight additional R&D
institutes were later carved out of KDMIPE between
1978-2006 to cater to their respective needs in the
fields of Reservoir (Institute of Reservoir Studies,
IRS), Drilling (Institute of Drilling Technology, IDT),
Production & Ocean Engineering (Institute of Oil &
Gas Production Technology, IOGPT & Institute of
Engineering and Ocean Technology, IEOT), Geo data
processing and interpretation (GeoData Processing
and Interpretation Centre, GEOPIC), Bio-Engineering
(Institute of Biotechnology and Geotectonic Studies,
INBIGS), Safety (Institute of Petroleum Safety,
Health and Environment Management, IPSHEM) and
well logging (Centre for Excellence in Well Logging
Technology, CEWells).