The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Offshore Extraction of natural gas, that activity is 06201.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
06201 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for Offshore Extraction of natural gas: a sub-class of class 0620, extraction of natural gas, within division 06, extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 06Group 062Class 0620Sub-class 06201
Offshore Extraction of natural gas
Sub-class 06201 · Class 0620 · Group 062 · Division 06 · Section B, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
062015 digits: 06 + 2 + 0 + 1NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 06201. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 06 covers extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas. It sits in section B, mining and quarrying.
Extraction of natural gas.
Extraction of natural gas. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Offshore Extraction of natural gas. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
06201 is a sub-class of class 0620, extraction of natural gas. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - support activities for oil and gas extraction, see 0910
- - oil and gas exploration, see 0910
- - recovery of liquefied petroleum gases in the refining of petroleum, see 1920
- - manufacture of industrial gases, see 2011
- - operation of pipelines, see 4930
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 06201 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Offshore Extraction of natural gas, that activity is 06201.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
06201 is for Offshore Extraction of natural gas. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 0620. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 0620 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 06201.
Questions
Offshore Extraction of natural gas, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0620, extraction of natural gas.
Class 0620, extraction of natural gas, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 06201, they are: 06202 (On shore Extraction of natural gas).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 0620, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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