| Post: | Minister of Petroleum and Minerals |
| Insigniaalt: | Coat of Arms of East Timor |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms of East Timor |
| Flag: | Flag of East Timor.svg |
| Flagalt: | Flag of East Timor |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of East Timor |
| Incumbentsince: | 1 July 2023 |
| Department: | Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals |
| Member Of: | Constitutional Government |
| Reports To: | Prime Minister |
| Appointer: | President of East Timor |
| Inaugural: | Mari Alkatiri |
The Minister of Petroleum and Minerals (Portuguese: Ministro do Petróleo e Minerais, Tetum: Ministru Petróleu no Minerais) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals.
Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:
Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a government statute, the Minister is also required, together with the Prime Minister, to sign the statute.
The incumbent Minister of Petroleum and Minerals is .[1] [2]
The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| Party | Minister | Portrait | Title | Government (Prime Minister) | Term start | Term end | Term in office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | Mari Alkatiri | Minister of Natural and Mineral Resources, and Energy Policy | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) | 26 July 2005 | 26 June 2006 | |||
| 2 | II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) | 10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | ||||||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) | 19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | |||||||
| 3 | CNRT | Xanana Gusmão | Prime Minister | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) | 8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | |||
| 4 | Alfredo Pires | Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources | V Constitutional (Gusmão) | 8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | ||||
| VI Constitutional (Araújo) | 16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | |||||||
| 5 (a) | PD | Mariano Assanami Sabino | Minister for Mineral Resources | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) | 15 September 2017 | 22 June 2018 | |||
| 5 (b) | Fretilin | Hernâni Filomena Coelho da Silva | Minister of Petroleum | ||||||
| (acting) | CNRT | Hermenegildo Ágio Pereira | Minister of Petroleum and Minerals | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) | 22 June 2018 | 12 May 2020 | |||
| 6 | Fretilin | Víctor da Conceição Soares | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) | 24 June 2020 | 1 July 2023 | ||||
| 7 | CNRT | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) | 1 July 2023 | Incumbent | |||||