- Raha feels the ministry is intruding in the working of a profitable PSU and trying to assert itself.
- The ministry thinks ongc's poor exploration performance can be corrected by outside technical help.
- Aiyar and his key officials want to check Raha's growing clout; the ministry is preparing a dossier to initiate action against the ONGC CEO.
- ONGC wants the ministry to correct several policy anomalies; one of them being that while protection has gone, gas prices are still controlled.