- IOC director Subir Raha leads the race, followed by ONGC director I.N. Chatterjee. But both need to clear pending corruption charges.
- The seniormost candidate, Jauhari Lal, was not even shortlisted for the interview. Another director went to the CBI with charges against Raha.
- PMO sidelined DGHC head Avinash Chandra for criticising ONGC’s functioning. Now, there’s no DGHC.
- ONGC Videsh head Atul Chandra didn’t go for the interview and quit.
- ONGC hired four global consultants without any tender—at $20 million each—for similar assignments in the last three years.