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ONGC’s 4-rig, 1000 hp mobile drilling tender rolls to 12 January after five successive deadline pushes.  Modular desalination plant (3000 klpd) bid is cancelled.  1000 HP rig spec quietly filters for complex-well capability, not just horsepower .  Fresh provisions tighten the cage around four licensors in this ethylene cracker tender.  GAIL hard-wires a RWGS-ethanol-SAF pathway in its Pata process CO2 DFR tender.  Piyala–Jewar ATF pipeline: When is commissioning likely?.  CBG DFR tender turns MSW lab proof into a disqualification gate.  L&T: Big petrochemical win.  Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector.  E&P contracting brief for the day.  Downstream contracting briefs: Awards.  Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids.  Downstream contracting briefs.  Russia blames sanctions over delay in reaching LNG output target of 100 million tons .  Announcements.  Seraikela-Kharsawan District City Gas Distribution Project.  Reliance resumes Russian crude imports via non-sanctioned suppliers.  Announcements.  ONGC tests a split lease-vs-ownership route for a 4–6 MMSCMD MOPU to unlock Mumbai high gas.  Cancelled: OIL’s Baghewala upper carbonate heavy-oil pilot tried to buy “seismic-to-steam” execution pedigree .  BPCL’s Andhra Pradesh refinery–petchem FID model goes two-stage.  JSC Mage takes the Aliabet TZ 3D seismic contract at Rs 1,060.1 crore .  Domestic gas tilts Delhi’s CCGT cost stack, leaving imported-gas stations exposed.  Qualified bidders hold, but Seros drops out as call-out economics stay unguaranteed in  Rajasthan field/well servicing package..  Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids.  Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part I).  Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part II).  E&P contracting brief: Part I.  E&P contracting brief: Part II.  E&P contracting brief: Part III.  E&P contracting brief: Part IV.  Andhra Refinery Update.  Downstream contracting briefs: Part I.  Downstream contracting briefs: Part II.  Downstream contracting briefs: Part III.  Downstream contracting briefs: Part IV.  Announcements.  Oil up as market weighs strong US economic growth, supply risks.  

ONGC’s 4-rig, 1000 hp mobile drilling tender rolls to 12 January after five successive deadline pushes

Dec 26: 8The fortnightly cadence of extensions is becoming the story itself, reshaping how bidders manage rig availability declarations and bank lines tied to EMD and bid-bond tenors.
8Clearly some bidders with connections are not ready to bid yet
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Modular desalination plant (3000 klpd) bid is cancelled

Dec 26: 8The owner tried to procure a BOO, ZLD modular desalination plant inside a live tankfarm, with the contractor owning tie-ins, metering, and compliance.
8The tender architecture quietly hard-bakes operational choke points: utility ceilings, hazardous-area electrical rules, and a byproduct stock regime that can force stoppage without compensation.
8Multiple corrigenda reshaped pre-bid and inspection provisions before the process ultimately collapsed.
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1000 HP rig spec quietly filters for complex-well capability, not just horsepower

Dec 26: 8The well types listed go beyond routine vertical drilling into high-angle, horizontal, sidetrack, and re-entry operations.
8That pushes bidders toward proven drilling packages and crews, not retrofit promises.
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Fresh provisions tighten the cage around four licensors in this ethylene cracker tender

Dec 26: 8The owner using the schedule of prices as a control weapon, not a spreadsheet. It is pricing cashflow creativity as a defect. This forces licensors to underwrite execution-tail exposure without milestone leverage. The tension will surface in how aggressively bidders price license and services.
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GAIL hard-wires a RWGS-ethanol-SAF pathway in its Pata process CO2 DFR tender

Dec 26: 8GAIL’s Pata tender quietly shifts the feasibility study from “paper assessment” to a vendor-facing DFR by making the consultant source the technical and commercial inputs.
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Piyala–Jewar ATF pipeline: When is commissioning likely?

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CBG DFR tender turns MSW lab proof into a disqualification gate

Dec 26: 8The owner is forcing feasibility consultants to earn their irr with measured MSW chemistry, not municipal assurances, and it is making that fieldwork a pass-fail condition. The tender quietly broadens “CBG DFR” into a wider waste-system design problem, including segregation and alternative waste-to-value pathways, while also mandating a head-to-head technology bake-off that includes HP-ramp.
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L&T: Big petrochemical win

Dec 26: 8EPC scope covers LLDPE/HDPE swing unit with two trains of 575 KTPA each at Bina (MP). Project sits inside BPCL’s plan to expand refinery capacity from 7.8 MMTPA to ~11 MMTPA, tying petrochem integration to national self-sufficiency narrative
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Dec 26: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Dec 26: 1) ONGC hardwires EPC-grade utilities and GHSE into five-year LP separation and compression hire at this GVS
8It reads like a reliability playbook for wet, low-pressure gas that must still hit a tight 20–25 kg/cm2g delivery envelope.
8The hidden battle is not just compressor capacity, but metering discipline, firewater and fire-and-gas architecture, and statutory approvals being priced inside a “services” wrapper.
 
2) OIL Rajasthan 1000 HP pre-bid timeline signals a high-query tender, but only on the promoter’s clock
8The pre-bid conference and query cut-off are tightly scheduled, which favours bidders already mobilised on the tender. Late technical clarifications can be locked out by process, not merit.
8What gets answered—and what stays silent—will be the real signal.
 
3) ONGC tightens bid discipline for Sagar Bhushan berthing with price-leak rule shift and refreshed bidder undertakings
8ONGC’s Sagar Bhushan berthing tender amendment looks procedural on the surface, but the legal-engineering is aimed squarely at bidder behaviour and quote hygiene.
 
4) Corrigendum resets effluent storage logic and extends bid date for mobile METP and separator
8ONGC’s corrigendum does more than add days—it quietly rewrites what “mobile” means on the ground.
8A single bidder query forces a capacity-vs-configuration correction that can reshape who can physically comply and who gets priced out.
 
5) Owner extends cementing and BHP services tender to 07 January 2026 — Rajasthan field cementing and BHP services
8This cementing and BHP package has now slipped by 117 days from the original closing, pushing the bid window into January 2026.
8The technical burden looks designed for a narrow, high-capability vendor set, and the extension sequence hints that the market is taking longer to assemble compliant submissions.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards

Dec 26: 1) Jecon edges out a dead-heat field as BPCL locks package 4 DHT-KHT turnaround
8The award lands on a razor-thin L1–L2 spread that signals an unusually tight view of true turnaround cost. But the same bid ladder breaks sharply after the top two, exposing how differently contractors are pricing risk and readiness.
 
2) BPCL’s mahul refinery biogas O&M award
8Mahul refinery has priced biogas continuity as a waste-handling and municipal-interface problem, not a simple equipment maintenance job. The contract architecture quietly shifts breakdown disposal, logistics, and periodic feedstock supplementation into the contractor’s fixed price.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Dec 26: 1) Three top-tier OEMs enter EIL’s pneumatic conveying race for NRL’s PPU project
8What emerges from technical evaluation will quietly decide whether price competition actually happens, or whether compliance economics narrows the fight to execution certainty.
 
2) Technical bid opens with four admitted bidders for commissioning assistance services for NREP
8Four bidders are already admitted at the technical opening stage, but the real filter will be who can document readiness across PC&C tooling, HSE discipline, and rapid deployment.

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Downstream contracting briefs

Dec 26: 1) GAIL tightens polymer-plant material handling tender with floor price and hard documentary gates
8GAIL’s Pata tender for chemical/catalyst and polymer-material handling is less about “manpower supply” and more about process-risk containment inside LLDPE-II and the new butene-I plant.
 
2) NRL’s NREP RPTU instrumentation tender hardens entry gates and cashflow controls in a two-group EPCM-2 buildout
8NRL is packaging RPTU instrumentation as a specification-driven execution job where documentation maturity matters as much as site manpower. The two-group strategy looks like competition, but the qualification math and inspection density quietly narrow who can play. A GST-linked payment release mechanism adds a compliance-to-cash lever that could reshape bidder pricing and risk appetite.
 
3) Nine extensions push IOCL’s Barauni VRU EPCC-15 bid submission by 155 days, but scope accountability stays locked
8IOCL has shifted the Barauni VRU EPCC-15 deadline nine times, dragging bid submission from late July 2025 into early January 2026. Yet the clarifications show the promoter refusing to let bidders push civil and interface risks back to the owner, even as documents tighten utility tie-ins.
 
4) Bid closing pushed again as BPCL tightens control on pretreatment licensor risk for kochi refinery standalone SAF project
8BPCL’s pretreatment licensor tender is stretching the calendar while hardening governance through a nine-month offer-validity override. The technical file’s toughest story is not throughput—it’s the unresolved boundary on what “effluent treatment” actually means inside the vendor package.
 
5) GAIL extends Hazop-QRA bidding for NCR region pipelines
8GAIL has pushed the bid deadline by 7 days, but the real story sits in what bidders demanded and what the buyer refused to rebalance.

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Russia blames sanctions over delay in reaching LNG output target of 100 million tons

Dec 26: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Hiring of comprehensive AMC services for 31 nos. CNG dispensers Details
8Two-year rate contract for MDPE gas pipeline shifting and restoration Details
8Procurement of high-resolution CCTV camera Details
8Realignment of 30-inch Paradip–Haldia–Baruani crude pipeline across Mahanadi River using HDD method Details 
8Appointment of a Service Provider for Custom House Agent (CHA) Services for Coastal Cargo related formalities and Clearances of Vessels at nominated Ports Details
8Hiring of TPI services for charter hiring of one (01) mobile drilling rig (minimum 1000 HP – John #19) for one-year drilling services Details
8Supply of pneumatic valves, cylinders, timers, signal generator, antenna, and accessories for filling scale system Details
8Providing manpower handling-cum-housekeeping services at retail office Details
8Event management services for LPG distributors’ award night (2025–26) Details
8Procurement of Apple iPad Pro 13-inch Details
8Administrative building interior design and layout works at LPG plant Details
8Supply, testing, installation and training for automatic organic waste converter Details
8T4S audit of LPG plant Details
8Supply of electro-hydraulic dock leveler Details
8Procurement of M/s John Crane make mechanical seal spares Details
8Procurement of DDGS bags for Bargarh bio-refinery Details
8Procurement of critical spares for Greaves Cotton fire engine Details
8Electrical audit of Loni LPG bottling plant Details
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 8Oil marginally lower as investors weigh US data, geopolitical tensions Details
 8Oil rises as market weighs Venezuela supply risks Details
 8Russia to reach planned LNG production level of 100 million tons per year, but later Details
 8Sanctions derail Russia’s plans to increase liquefied natural gas production Details
 8Vietnam PM orders resolution of bottlenecks at GS Energy-backed LNG projects Details
 8Sovcomflot gets first Russian tanker for Arctic LNG 2 Details
 8L&T wins major BPCL petrochemical project at Bina Details
 8Gujarat government launches new policies for renewable energy and green hydrogen initiatives Details
 8Indian Federation of Green Energy signs MoU with Global Ethanol Association to advance ethanol as sustainable marine fuel Details
 8Sanctions delay Russia’s plan to triple LNG output, Novak says Details
 8Ukraine says it hit Russian gas processing plant, oil refinery Details
 8Russia blames sanctions over delay in reaching LNG output target of 100 million tons Details
 8AVG Logistics collaborates with Baidyanath LNG to promote use of LNG in Indian transport Details
 8Deadly road accident exposes fitness certificate scam in UP: cylinders certified without testing as agencies, brokers and officials collude, risking lives of people Details
 8No green fuel: MSRTC to focus on bringing in 8,000 diesel buses next year Details
 8From LPG to PAN-Aadhaar, these rules will change from January 1, 2026; know your benefits today Details
 8India’s top refiner quietly returns to Russian oil with shadowed supply route despite US sanctions Details
 8Adani Total Gas seeks shareholders’ approval for appointment of K Jairaj as independent director Details
 8Milind Torawane resigns as managing director of Gujarat Gas following government transfer Details
 8Bioethanol boom opens new avenues for upland farmers in Nellore Details
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Announcements

Dec 26: New Page 1 8Resignation of joint managing director [GSPL] Details 
8Paper on regasification, listed gas marketing and CGD entities [PNGRB] Details
8Intimation of resignation of managing director from the board of company [GGL] Details 
8Comparative Economics & Cost–Benefit Analysis of PNG/CNG for Industrial & Commercial Consumers: Pipeline Gas Supply vs Trucked LNG in a Specific GA [PNGRB] Details 
8KPI Green Energy-NTPC NOA for first green hydrogen + waste-to-energy project Details
8AVG Logistics Limited Partners with Baidyanath LNG to Accelerate LNG Adoption in India’s Transportation Sector [AVG] Details
8SEAMEC III sails for commencement of PRP-VIII A and DSF II pipeline replacement projects [Seamec] Details
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Seraikela-Kharsawan District City Gas Distribution Project

Dec 26: 8Project Name: Seraikela-Kharsawan District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

Reliance resumes Russian crude imports via non-sanctioned suppliers

Dec 25: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for composite works for constructing residential accommodation for ONGC Mehsana Details
8Tender for composite works for constructing residential accommodation for ONGC Mehsana Details
8Procurement of welded carbon steel and low-temperature carbon steel pipes, 16 inch and above, for PDH–PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of seamless carbon steel and low-temperature carbon steel pipes for PDH–PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Tender for mechanical and firefighting works including associated piping for ambient air heater project Details
8Tender for painting works in Manali Refinery Details
8Procurement of spares for Cameron make manual choke and gate valves for choke and kill manifolds Details
8Tender for replacement of wire rope in three high-mast lighting poles Details
8Tender for repair, servicing, and arresting of oil leakage of 1000 kVA transformer Details
8Procurement of spares for KPCL make air compressors Details
8Procurement of spares for Mahindra engine models 48051A, 4905AGMC2, and 275TU Details
8Supply and installation of street light poles, cables, and LED lighting systems Details
8Tender for expert supervisory services for inspection, troubleshooting, and overhauling of Claus air blowers Details
8Customs handling agency contract for vessels Details
8Tender for design, supply, installation, and commissioning of lube oil storage container and dispensing system Details
8Annual rate contract for composite repainting and insulation repair works of storage tanks, chimneys, and facilities Details
8Tender for preparation of detailed feasibility report for conversion of process CO? to sustainable aviation fuel Details
8Provision of comprehensive annual maintenance contract for T.K. Elevators make lifts Details
8Tender for integrated combo valve with actuator for 425 kg LPG cylinder Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of chain conveyor for STP online equipment Details
8Tender for procurement of motor Details
8Procurement of Easy-Laser D550 shaft alignment tool Details
8Tender for procurement of motor pulley for air fin cooler Details
8Tender for procurement of HTD belt Details
8Tender for procurement of gas gun/burner Details
8Tender for statutory testing of LPG underground vessels Details
8Procurement of batteries on buyback for fire engine and UPS Details
8Tender for assessment of tank bottom plate integrity through acoustic emission testing of installed storage tanks Details
8Tender for supply of electricity through open access from energy exchange Details
8Tender for handling services of chemicals, catalyst, and materials in LLDPE-II and New Butene-I plants Details
8Procurement of portable optical gas imaging camera with quantification for hydrocarbon leak detection Details
8Tender for procurement of digital barometer Details
8Tender for manpower-based facility management services for industrial safety and SORH assistance Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of addressable fire alarm system Details
8Tender for procurement of fire vehicle batteries Details
8Tender for preventive and breakdown maintenance of ESP control panels and transformers for CPP ESP system Details
8Tender for supply of galvanized steel chain link fence fabric Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of ACDB Details
8Tender for procurement of compressor spares Details
8Procurement of pressure safety valves for PRDS motor operated valves at main steam block Details
8Purchase of UHF handset and base station at LPG plant Details
8Tender for supply of skid-mounted dosing package Details
8Providing pick-up facilities for management and non-management staff Details
8Tender for procurement of tube bundle Details
8Tender for hydro testing and commissioning of Piyala–Jewar ATF pipeline Details
8Tender for procurement of anti-static additive Details
8Tender for design, supply, installation, commissioning, and AMC of screw air compressors at LPG bottling plants Details
8Tender for repair of bulged portion and skirt of coke drums in DCU Details
8Tender for supply and installation of redundant SCADA software and servers for TAS system Details
8Tender for decommissioning and shifting of three ALDS facilities to LPG bottling plant Details
8Procurement of inherent fire-retardant suits for employees Details
8Procurement of SS clips used in safety caps for self-closing valves of LPG cylinders Details
8Tender for carrying out external safety audit Details
8Tender for transportation of 1200 SCMH engine-driven package and related accessories Details
8Supply of large-size butterfly valves for polypropylene site Details
8Tender for procurement and installation of battery chargers Details
8Tender for supply and installation of VRF air conditioning system Details
8Procurement of hydroxyethyl cellulose for the year 2026–27 Details
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 8India’s new law to fuel energy needs, drive nuclear power growth Details
 8Legal turbulence around Tecnimont engineering giant introduces new uncertainty for India’s downstream expansion Details
 8KPI Green Energy gains on bagging Rs.128-cr NTPC order for green hydrogen project Details
 8Indian Peroxide to build 400 TPD chlor-alkali unit at Dahej Details
 8NTPC to set up plasma gasification-based green hydrogen plant in Uttar Pradesh Details
 8Nitin Gadkari promotes ethanol vehicles to reduce pollution and fuel imports Details
 8Bihar ethanol industry raises concerns over lower allocations for ESY 2025–26 Details
 8A big end to the year for BP Details
 8Cold weather returns and natural gas prices surge Details
 8PETRONAS supplies 1 MTPA of LNG to China Details
 8MOL & JERA launch Japan’s first large-scale low-carbon ammonia shipping project Details
 8Technip Energies secures major equipment orders for Commonwealth LNG project in Louisiana Details
 8INOX Air Products flags off India’s first LNG-fuelled cryogenic tanker Details
 8Uttarakhand cuts VAT on CNG and PNG; doubles pension for elderly destitute artists Details
 8India doubles its CNG network: energy transition towards decarbonization Details
 8Fuel prices on December 24, 2025: petrol, diesel, LPG, and CNG Details
 8Supreme Industries wins Rs.54-cr order from Bharat Petroleum Corporation Details
 8GAIL Varanasi Rs.25,000 CNG incentive scheme for commercial vehicles Details
 8Cochin Shipyard Limited announces major recruitment drive for 136+ positions Details
 8Russian oil: Reliance Industries secures one-month waiver on US sanctions Details
 8Indian company resumes buying discounted Russian oil Details
 8Six additional air quality monitoring stations to be set up to bolster anti-pollution efforts: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Details
 8Reliance resumes Russian crude imports via non-sanctioned suppliers Details
 8Oil marginally lower as investors weigh US data and geopolitical tensions Details
 8India’s petrol pump network surpasses 100,000; third-largest after the US and China Details
 8Rupee falls 16 paise to close at 89.79 against US dollar Details
 8India’s sanction-hit Nayara delays oil refinery maintenance work Details
 8India’s Reliance gets one-month US concession to buy Rosneft oil, sources say Details
 8Oil change: BP to exit Castrol India Details
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Announcements

Dec 25: 8Optimizing primary transport of petroleum products to OMC terminals: a case study of North India [PNGRB] Details
8Optimising LNG supplies from terminals in India [PNGRB] Details
8Additional session in auction market [IGX] Details
8Additional session in auction market [IGX] Details
8Intimation of receipt of GST penalty order and proposed appeal [RIL] Details
8Intimation of media interaction with NDTV Profit [Seamec] Details
8Intimation of appointment of managing director of Gujarat Gas Limited [GGL] Details
8Notice of postal ballot for appointment of independent director [ATGL] Details Details

ONGC tests a split lease-vs-ownership route for a 4–6 MMSCMD MOPU to unlock Mumbai high gas

Dec 24: 8ONGC is pushing a bridge-connected, high-pressure gas processing MOPU concept that looks less like a vessel hire and more like outsourcing an entire offshore facility.
8The early signals on “no dry dock due,” asset-age gates, and long-duration O&M accountability will narrow the field to a specific class of owners/operators.
8The bigger question sits in the contracting seams: how ONGC plans to enforce performance when leasing and operating roles are split.
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Cancelled: OIL’s Baghewala upper carbonate heavy-oil pilot tried to buy “seismic-to-steam” execution pedigree

Dec 24: 8OIL’s baghewala upper carbonate is being treated less like a reservoir study and more like a fracture–geomechanics–thermal EOR engineering problem with a pilot gate.
8The tender’s eligibility wording and phase-2 discretion together narrow who can credibly bid and how they price risk. 
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BPCL’s Andhra Pradesh refinery–petchem FID model goes two-stage

Dec 24: 8BPCL is tying its Andhra Pradesh greenfield refinery–petchem investment case to a staged financial model that mirrors estimate maturity rather than waiting for a single “final” number.
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JSC Mage takes the Aliabet TZ 3D seismic contract at Rs 1,060.1 crore 

Dec 24: 8ONGC’s Aliabet TZ/OBN award lands on a price point that will force execution discipline more than paperwork heroics
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Domestic gas tilts Delhi’s CCGT cost stack, leaving imported-gas stations exposed

Dec 24: 8According to FORM-15 fuel filings submitted by IPGCL and PPCL, Delhi’s gas-based generators showed sharply divergent cost structures in October–November 2025. GTPS relied entirely on imported gas in October, resulting in a landed cost of Rs.44.9/SCM, while Pragati Power Station-I operated in November on domestic gas at Rs.26.5/SCM. Despite consuming nearly double the gas volume, Pragati-I incurred only a marginally higher total fuel bill. The filings underline a system-wide tension between domestic gas access and imported fuel exposure. This divergence has direct implications for merit-order dispatch, variable cost recovery, and regulatory scrutiny of gas allocation outcomes.
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Qualified bidders hold, but Seros drops out as call-out economics stay unguaranteed in  Rajasthan field/well servicing package.

Dec 24: 8Oil India kept the biggest commercial uncertainty intact: no minimum deployment days per call-out, only SOR “approximations.
8Participating bidders tried to pin down utilisation and soften compliance friction, but the promoter mostly routed everything back through amendments and “as per tender.
8 With Seros disqualified and Weafri/Bvishal qualified, the tender’s real filter looks less like capability and more like who can survive strict process plus utilisation risk.
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Dec 24: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Dec 24: It is easy to get month-old import data but it is difficult to solicit forthcoming shipment information in India. We go through a laborious process of data collection to get you full import information, including company-wise, quantity-wise, port-wise, vessel-wise cargoes which are coming into India in the next 15-to30 days.
Get the daily updates for :
8LNG
8Crude
8Chemicals
8Fertilizers
8LPG
8Ammonia
8Coal & Coke
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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Dec 24: 1) BPCL’s Kochi polypropylene expander revamp reaches technical opening with a sole bidder
8A power recovery expander revamp is being treated like a reliability-critical rotating train job, not a routine package purchase. The real story now is how BPCL and EIL manage awardability, governance, and price-stage leverage in a single-bid corner.
 
2) Four bidders land in EIL’s vertical SPP technical round as HPCL’s LMBU package tightens compliance with a late datasheet swap
8A four-bidder technical opening can look healthy on paper, but this EIL-led package is built to disqualify on small compliance slips rather than reward “engineering creativity.”
 
3) Technical bids open with four global DCS OEMs in bpcl’s BPREP mega-automation package
8The tender has moved into technical evaluation with four heavyweight OEMs still standing, but the qualification math is designed to eliminate anyone without proven mega-scale hydrocarbon references.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part I)

Dec 24: 1) Om Tech Constructions undercuts the field on the civil maintenance ARC in Panipat refinery
8A “critical” refinery-wide civil arc has been priced with a clear outlier at the bottom, and the spread to the next bidder is not marginal.
 
2) Emergency DG set award shows sharp l1 undercut after a late scope reset
8IOCL’s Digboi expansion DG package quietly morphed from a small single set into two higher-capacity units, forcing bidders to rebase both engineering and risk. The award spread hints at one bidder pricing the new interface burdens as manageable while another treated them as open-ended.
 
3) HPCL’s minor projects expediting rate contract closes with a near-tied L1–L2 and a steep drop-off
8The award stack shows the competitive battle collapsed into a near-identical top two bids, while the rest of the field priced a very different risk reality.
 
4) KSB takes a single-bid award for vertical special purpose process pump under BPCL’s BPRED via EIL
8The award line suggests the owner accepted a lone price point, raising a quiet question about whether vendor pool design—not pump design—is the binding constraint.
 
5) IOCL’s ganga water intake PMC at Barauni closes with a razor-thin L1–L2 gap
8IOCL has bundled Ganga intake feasibility and execution-phase PMC into a single work order, but kept a clean escape hatch to pay only for Phase I if Phase II approvals do not land.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part II)

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s Haldia super sucker MOSRU award narrows to two qualified bidders
8A one-year super sucker MOSRU hire was awarded where the real contract is not the machine, but the readiness regime behind it. Five of seven bidders fell out at qualification, leaving a thin price ladder that still priced above the estimate.
 
2) IOCL locks in UOP expert support for Haldia refinery PSA systems
8IOCL’s Haldia refinery has formally routed PSA reliability into a named-OEM support contract, leaving little room for competitive price discovery.
 
3) JPCL’s DHT TA 2026 decontamination expert award turns a GeM custom bid into a declared single-source buy
8HPCL has awarded a DHT turnaround-critical decontamination supervision package through a GeM custom bid that is openly framed as a nomination pathway.

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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Dec 24: 1) ONGC tightens directional drilling bid with appendix-1 SDMM compliance grid and ATC overwrite in directional drilling services
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum is less about dates and more about control: it hardens how bidders must prove SDMM and jar compliance, hole-section by hole-section.
8The move also resets the buyer-added ATC layer, signalling a governance clean-up before bid opening.
 
2) Oil India’s CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing tender shows a January 2026 extension trail,
8Oil India’s four-year CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing package is showing a deadline drift that stretches into January 2026
 
3) Bid clock extended to 29 December 2025, but the compliance data-chain burden stays heavy in ONGC/Odalarevu onshore terminal CAAQMS and CEMS
8ONGC has pushed the Odalarevu CAAQMS–CEMS tender deadline out to 29 December 2025, extending the runway for a submission that is more systems integration than instrument supply
 
4) Bid window keeps stretching for OIL’s one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing package
8Oil India limited has repeatedly moved the clock on its one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing tender while keeping the security and liability backbone largely intact.
8The clarifications that do land are operationally sharp, tightening how maintenance downtime and operating-charge triggers will be policed.
 
5) ONGC’s Rajahmundry hydraulic fracturing and coiled tubing tender gets another clock-reset
8ONGC has already used a mix of portal-extension, scope surgery and commercial easing to keep the Rajahmundry HF+CT package alive without rewriting the technical spine.
 
6) Oil India’s 3000 HP rig hire tender is pushed to 08 January 2026
8Oil India has extended the bid close again, taking its 3000 HP rig-package tender into January 2026.
8The more material signal sits behind the dates: securities validity and multiple technical acceptability bands have shifted while the promoter keeps “all other terms” formally intact.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Dec 24: 1) Oil India Limited locks thickness survey into OISD traceability while banning coating removal
8Oil India Limited is not just ordering UT readings; it is buying a repeatable integrity dataset tied to OISD logic, colour-marked points, and Annexure-grade reporting.
8The decisive twist is a hard ban on coating removal, forcing “through coating” UT and pushing field-method risk squarely onto the contractor.
 
2) ONGC pushes drilling training into physics-grade AR/VR with IDWE’s immersive competency framework
8ONGC’s drilling training arm is redrawing the boundary between classroom learning and operational readiness.
 
3) Oil India Limited tightens compliance gates in Baghewala crude sale tender
8Oil India Limited’s Baghewala crude sale tender is structured less like a routine sale and more like a compliance stress-test with a premium-percentage price lever.
 
4) Participated bidders walk into a frozen spec and a tight post-bid corridor in Ashoknagar pad-1 development wells civil works
8It is engineered to freeze technical conditions early and compress bidder manoeuvre after participation.
 
5) ONGC tightens post-participation clarification lanes for rig carrier TPI, squeezing overseas execution risk
8ONGC has framed this rig carrier TPI as a documentation-and-CAT witnessing gate, not a routine third-party visit.
8The real pressure point is overseas execution: fixed inspection duration, tight turnaround, and contractor-borne travel costs inside a lump sum.
8Participated bidders are left with limited room to reshape risk allocation once bids are in, because clarifications cannot change price or substance.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part III

Dec 24: 1) ONGC tightens call-out reservoir field services into a four-location capacity test with capped standby economics
8ONGC’s reservoir field services tender reads less like a routine slickline hire and more like a distributed readiness contract spanning four basins.
8The fine print quietly rewires utilisation risk, compresses data turnaround, and enforces a multi-unit posture with a penalty-backed trigger.
8The real story is how these levers could reshape who even dares to bid—and at what operating-day price.
 
2) ONGC’s MBCU hire for Cambay cementing hardwires fuel-indexed logistics pricing and punitive downtime deductions
8ONGC’s Cambay cementing tender turns bulk cement logistics into a controlled, auditable system with formula-tied transport pricing and strict acceptance gates.
 
3) ONGC tightens well services compressor hire with cloud RTMS and GPS-linked deductions
8ONGC’s Cambay asset compressor tender is less about air delivery and more about turning utilisation into auditable data.
 
4) Oil’s renewables empanelment ties M&A due diligence to BESS-ready DPR and PMC oversight
8Oil is building a single consultant layer that can value operating RE/CBG assets and then carry the engineering logic straight into bid strategy and execution oversight.
 
5) ONGC’s Tapti–NTP-2 RTU relocation award shows a 52.5% l2 premium over L1
8ONGC’s award lands with a steep bid ladder that signals sharply divergent views of offshore execution risk.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part IV

Dec 24: 1) ONGC’s vadodara chrome plating bid tightens facility-and-proof gates as all hydraulic services drops out
8ONGC’s CWS Vadodara chrome plating tender is behaving less like a routine workshop job and more like a custody-and-schedule risk transfer.
 
2) Qualified vs disqualified splits on documentation-heavy compliance in OIL’s hydraulic workover unit with snubbing bid
8Oil India Limited’s tender for a hydraulic workover unit with snubbing capability reads less like a buy and more like a compliance audit.
8One participating bidder qualified while another was disqualified, but the documents reveal the structural filters that typically decide these outcomes.
 
3) ONGC extends Ahmedabad fire protection revamp as foam and ups scope coherence stays the real pre-bid risk
8The reply trail points to discipline documents to resolve aFFF foam and ups scope conflicts that can materially reshape pump house design and commissioning readiness.
8The bidders who treat this as a mere extension notice may discover the real competition is document-integration discipline, not price.
 
4) ONGC extends GST compliance management consultancy at shared finance services Noida to 30 December 2025
8ONGC’s GST compliance tender is no longer a filing support exercise but a SAP-integrated control stack spanning returns, e-invoicing and litigation workflows.
8The one-week extension to 30 December 2025 looks timed to participation pressure in a two-packet GeM bid that demands both tooling and managed service depth.
8A clause-level inconsistency on dispute resolution signals why bidders may be slowing down, and where risk pricing could move.
 
5) Oil India Limited’s Dandewala GSU tender stretches 104 days as OIL tightens power and redundancy governance for gas processing complex gas sweetening unit.
8But the calendar slip is only the surface story: OIL is rewriting qualification proof, hard-coding a power-consumption credibility test, and reshaping compressor redundancy expectations without buying a standby machine.
8The tender is turning into a bid-governance exercise where the weakest link is less “EPC capability” and more “guarantee math that survives scrutiny.”
 
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Andhra Refinery Update

Dec 24: 1) Andhra VCM unit: MOOWR duty logic tightened, key license-fee payments deferred
8BPCL’s latest commercial amendment rewrites how customs-duty deferral is assumed, and it is far less generous for continuously consumed catalysts than many bidders would like. It also quietly pushes multiple license-fee milestones behind final investment approval, changing the cashflow profile of a licensor-led package.
 
2) Commercial amendment tightens escalation and proprietary-item disclosure for BPCL’s Ramayapatnam PFCCU block licensor selection
8BPCL and EIL have quietly shifted the economic battlefield from headline fees to long-tail escalation mechanics.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part I

Dec 24: 1) HPCL tightens the approvals chain for Butibori LPG & POL terminal rail siding
8HPCL’s Butibori terminal rail-siding package is written like an execution contract disguised as consultancy, pushing survey and approvals uncertainty into a fixed lump sum.
 
2) HPCL’s DHT SRU block TA 2026 tender shows a tight bid-governance play, with closing date extended
8HPCL is pricing a turnaround execution stack that goes far beyond “block TA” labels, down to valve, flange-class, and scaffolding micro-activities for the DHT-SRU block.
 
3) GAIL tightens QRA/hazop scoping while reserving a 25% swing clause in NCR region pipelines
8The company has quietly turned a “study tender” into a data-heavy, asset-anchored risk assignment by publishing pipeline-wise installations and river crossing coordinates.
 
4) CPCL’s dryer and purification system study tender moves into extension mode
8The company is treating a refinery PBFS conditioning study like a controlled-source procurement, not an open consultancy market.
 
5) HPRGEL’s solar + BESS PMC tender gets a short extension
8A single pre-bid clarification quietly rewires field scope, creating a contract-readiness trap for anyone pricing off the base document.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part II

Dec 24: 1) IOCL NRPL Panipat tightens HAZOP–QRA procurement with bidder-owned licensed modelling software for Panipat–Jalandhar LPG pipeline
8IOCL NRPL Panipat is forcing risk consultants to prove their modelling stack upfront, turning software provenance into a qualification filter
 
2) IOCL R&D Faridabad tightens the gate for on-call BDEP/FEED and cost-estimation engineering
8IOCL R&D’s quietly converts front-end engineering into an always-on utility for TIC, with “as and when” call-offs that can reshape project decisions upstream.
 
3) GAIL’s Pata storage-area BOG compressor tender tightens package responsibility
8GAIL’s Pata tender reads less like a compressor buy and more like an uptime architecture mandate, with API 618 package completeness pushed all the way to monitoring and battery-limit interfaces. But the real filter may sit outside the datasheet.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part III

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s Paradip refinery keeps PQC bar fixed while extending GeM deadline for SADC shutdown/DCU low-throughput support
8The tender locks “similar work” to refinery-grade mechanical hot/cold jobs, tightening who can realistically compete.
 
2) Seven date pushes take IOCL PBR cooling water network tender from 18 Aug 2025 to 12 Jan 2026
8The addenda show a disciplined pattern: only the bid submission and opening dates are rewritten while the rest of the tender posture is held intact.
 
3) BPCL Kochi refinery polypropylene project pump tender slips by 63 days
8The weekly cadence of deferrals reads like a participation or clarity problem inside a zero-deviation framework. What that does to vendor appetite, delivery realism, and bid-risk pricing is the real story behind the date change.
 
4) BPECL’s Bina BPREP LCWS pump package slips into a five-step bid extension cycle as identical-hydraulics PQC tightens the vendor funnel
8What matters now is whether the extra runway actually widens the qualified pool—or simply raises bidder risk buffers and price.
 
5) IOCL stretches flare-gas power EOI by three extensions
8The move quietly tests whether the market can document true “recovered flare gas” power credentials at refinery grade, not just propose generic gas-based generation. The pattern raises a single hard question for bidders: is the bottleneck technical fit, paperwork friction, or an unclear path from EOI to executable contract.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part IV

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s MJPL ILI tender doubles down on high-resolution UT certainty while refusing standby and extra-cleaning payouts
8The unresolved tension is whether the bidder pool prices the uncertainty into the base SOR—or whether the timeline (including your logged extensions) is IOCL’s quiet signal that participation is thinner than expected.
 
2) Bid deadline pushed to 29 Dec as IOCL gujarat refinery keeps the ra funnel open for FCC and FPU-1 shutdown piping
8A six-day extension looks minor, but in refinery shutdown piping it can decide whether bidders can actually lock welders, NDT capacity and heavy equipment.
 
3) IOCL extends Barauni refinery shutdown refractory tender
8The extension looks small on paper, but it lands on a tender that is both “critical” and restricted to class-i local suppliers, where participation elasticity is limited.

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Announcements

Dec 24: 8Monthly report on indigenous crude oil production, imports, and petroleum products for November 2025 [PPAC] Details
8Vedanta demerger to be completed by March 2026, creating five pure-play listed companies: Anil Agarwal [Vedanta] Details
8L&T wins major order for hydrocarbon onshore business [L&T] Details
8PNGRB invites public comments on proposed LNG terminal amendment regulations, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8PPPL releases MIS for October 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8PNGRB releases monthly bulletin for October 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Order issued under Section 73 of the CGST Act, 2017 [Refex] Details
8GE Shipping delivers 2005-built Suezmax crude tanker “Jag Lok” [GES] Details
8India Ratings reaffirms company’s credit ratings at IND AAA/Stable and IND A1+ [RIL] Details
8Government of Chhattisgarh and GAIL sign MoU to develop a gas-based fertilizer project in Chhattisgarh [GAIL] Details Details

Oil up as market weighs strong US economic growth, supply risks

Dec 24: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Rate contract for revisioning and testing of valves (including PSVs) of various services in P-25 units Details
8Procurement of test flange Details
8Procurement of mechanical spares Details
8Procurement of multifunction machine MFM (V2) (Q2) Details
8Refurbishment and testing of used dry gas seals of ISOM recycle gas compressor Details
8Procurement of Emerson make Fisher control valve spares Details
8Procurement of SRL make control valve Details
8Procurement of additive package ST2100 or ST2101 Details
8Procurement of automated real-time Micro PCR machine Details
8Procurement of sampling bottles Details
8Procurement of H?S gas detector Details
8Procurement of complete double seal Details
8Procurement of Diode Oring for HT & LT Switchgears Details
8Supply of CS valves Details
8Procurement of caustic soda lye Details
8Procurement of M/s Standard Engineers make spares for RPF Mother Liquor Flash Drum Agitator (Tag No. 9061-21-AG-1437) Details
8Procurement of M/s Bollfilter India Pvt. Ltd. make OHCU RGC DGS filter element Details
8Procurement of liquid nitrogen (in kg) – Q3 Details
8Procurement of bladder Details
8Supply of spares for closed loop sampling system Details
8Engagement of engineering services agency for additional support requirements for BDEP Details
8Procurement of NDE bellow sub-assembly Details
8Rate contract for rendering professional services for site surveying and soil investigation Details
8Procurement of filter cartridges Details
8Procurement of ammonium thiocyanate Details
8Procurement of safety valves Details
8Procurement of mechanical seal spares for Flowserve Details
8Rate contract for rendering professional services for site surveying and soil investigation Details
8Supply of 3-Phase Series Reactor, 72002V, 261.5 kVAR, Non-Magnetic, Air-Cored, Copper Wound Details
8Procurement of HDPE bottles Details
8Supply of small bore pipe fittings Details
8Annual maintenance contract for Honeywell Enraf TFMS system Details
8Procurement of flexible hose with connection Details
8Procurement of gasket Details
8Procurement of Honeywell handheld wired reader Details
8Procurement of Siemens PLC spares Details
8Procurement of pipes Details
8Procurement of Thulium Fiber Laser systems Details
8Annual maintenance contract for crude oil analyzer Details
8Supply of valves Details
8Three-year rate contract for servicing of reciprocating compressor valves Details
8Overhauling, testing, and calibration of servomotors Details
8Visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness testing of LPG pipelines Details
8Procurement of gear box Details
8Annual maintenance contract for expert supervision services for troubleshooting and overhauling of SRU Micro STG Details
8Procurement of pipe fittings Details
8Procurement of demister pads Details
8Office pantry management at Shillong retail territory Details
8Procurement and installation of AdBlue filling machine with filling line for liters containers Details
8Supply of centrifugal pump and flameproof motor Details
8Annual Rate Contract (ARC) for maintenance of liquid nitrogen storage vessels Details
8Annual Rate Contract for rodent, snake, and lizard control treatment in electrical substations and instrumentation control rooms Details
8Structural and grating works Details
8Service contract for providing O&M assistance for terminals and pipelines Details
8Procurement of non-intrusive magnetic type pig signaller under HVJ pipeline network Details
8Procurement of electrical consumable items for temporary connections in plant and township areas Details
8Procurement of fire-resisting filing cabinet Details
8Procurement of gaskets Details
8Procurement of prime mover for hauling ethylene semi-trailer for PDH Unit Details
8Activities or simulator-based TT driver training Details
8Annual Rate Contract for septic tank and sewage chamber cleaning services Details
8Decommissioning, shifting, reinstallation, and recommissioning of 1200 SCMH gas engine compressor Details
8Interior works in Central and ETP Control Rooms of Secondary Tank Farm Details
8Procurement of multi-purpose pumping unit Details
8Procurement of OR centrifugal compressor for Polypropylene Unit Details
8Procurement of reciprocating compressor for Polypropylene Unit Details
8Engagement of consultant for ADC and Development Planning of Senior Executives Details
8Procurement of reciprocating pump Details
8Hiring agencies for PE laying works at SK & WS GA from empanelled vendors Details
8Supply, installation, and commissioning of boil-off gas (BOG) compressor Details
8Fabrication and supply of electrical LT panels for EV-2000-1 drilling rig Details
8Expression of Interest from vessel owners/operators for hiring of Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) for gas processing Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of outdoor current transformer at 66 kV switchyard Details
8OEM repair of HP pump and supply of chemicals for Rochem Water Maker Details
8Procurement of M/s SERTEC make monitoring unit for lightning protection system Details
8Procurement of spares for PerkinElmer Clarus 580 gas chromatograph Details
8Fabrication and supply of DSS spool for temporary hot gas seal system of PGC-B Details
8Laser retrofit for large video screen (LVS) system at Resid DCU Unit Details
8Supply of fire fighting and safety equipment Details
8Procurement of flanges Details
8Procurement of hardware Details
8Instrumentation cabling and duct installation contract Details
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 8L&T bags BPCL order worth up to Rs. 10,000 crore for India's largest polyethylene unit Details
 8Australia to require up to 25 pct of gas production for local market Details
 8Shell, INEOS hit new gas discovery in US Gulf Details
 8China domestic LNG prices at lowest in five years Details
 8Falling crude prices, surplus services exports to keep India's CAD in comfort zone: Crisil Details
 8BPCL receives prestigious honour of National Project Excellence Award 2025 Details
 8GAIL (India) Limited successfully completes Rs.115.6 crore bond interest payment Details
 8Gulf Oil Lubricants appoints Manish Kumar Gangwal as whole-time director Details
 8NTPC issues errata for methanol procurement tender at Kayamkulam plant Details
 8Adani clean-energy units notch milestone year as solar, wind, green hydrogen scale up Details
 8NTPC taps plasma gasification to convert waste into green hydrogen Details
 8India doubles down on deepwater drilling to cut import dependence with new offshore exploration mission Details
 8Cairn completes India’s first sub-sea template installation in Ambe block Details
 8Oil slips as market weighs Venezuela, Russia supply risks Details
 8‘No PUC, no fuel’ policy to continue in Delhi even after GRAP-IV easing: Manjinder Singh Sirsa Details
 8Oil up as market weighs strong US economic growth, supply risks Details
 8Ethanol beyond transportation: Unlocking opportunities in gensets and static engines Details
 8BPCL wins award for 2G–1G integrated bio-ethanol refinery in Odisha Details
 8Vietnam poised to become regional LNG hub amid energy transition Details
 8India's GSPC seeks LNG cargo for January delivery, sources say Details
 8Myanmar restarts LNG imports after 4-year hiatus; first cargo powers 150 MW grid injection Details
 8HMEL to invest Rs 2,600 crore in Bathinda refinery Details
 8New rules from January 1, 2026: 8th Pay Commission, FD rates and LPG price changes Details
 8RINL conducts annual LPG leakage Details
 8Sanjeev Arora reaffirms full support for HMEL expansion, highlights major industrial contribution Details
 8LPG carrier owners advocate capital discipline Details
 8India balances energy needs and diplomacy as Russian oil imports rise Details
 8GAIL signs MoU for Chhattisgarh fertiliser project Details
 8Mormugao council recovers Rs 5 crore dues from Indian Oil Details
 8Venezuela passes law to jail supporters of US oil blockade amid escalating tensions Details
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ONGC’s 4-rig, 1000 hp mobile drilling tender rolls to 12 January after five successive deadline pushes

Dec 26: 8The fortnightly cadence of extensions is becoming the story itself, reshaping how bidders manage rig availability declarations and bank lines tied to EMD and bid-bond tenors.
8Clearly some bidders with connections are not ready to bid yet
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Modular desalination plant (3000 klpd) bid is cancelled

Dec 26: 8The owner tried to procure a BOO, ZLD modular desalination plant inside a live tankfarm, with the contractor owning tie-ins, metering, and compliance.
8The tender architecture quietly hard-bakes operational choke points: utility ceilings, hazardous-area electrical rules, and a byproduct stock regime that can force stoppage without compensation.
8Multiple corrigenda reshaped pre-bid and inspection provisions before the process ultimately collapsed.
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1000 HP rig spec quietly filters for complex-well capability, not just horsepower

Dec 26: 8The well types listed go beyond routine vertical drilling into high-angle, horizontal, sidetrack, and re-entry operations.
8That pushes bidders toward proven drilling packages and crews, not retrofit promises.
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Fresh provisions tighten the cage around four licensors in this ethylene cracker tender

Dec 26: 8The owner using the schedule of prices as a control weapon, not a spreadsheet. It is pricing cashflow creativity as a defect. This forces licensors to underwrite execution-tail exposure without milestone leverage. The tension will surface in how aggressively bidders price license and services.
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GAIL hard-wires a RWGS-ethanol-SAF pathway in its Pata process CO2 DFR tender

Dec 26: 8GAIL’s Pata tender quietly shifts the feasibility study from “paper assessment” to a vendor-facing DFR by making the consultant source the technical and commercial inputs.
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Piyala–Jewar ATF pipeline: When is commissioning likely?

Dec 26: 8Find out more on this
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CBG DFR tender turns MSW lab proof into a disqualification gate

Dec 26: 8The owner is forcing feasibility consultants to earn their irr with measured MSW chemistry, not municipal assurances, and it is making that fieldwork a pass-fail condition. The tender quietly broadens “CBG DFR” into a wider waste-system design problem, including segregation and alternative waste-to-value pathways, while also mandating a head-to-head technology bake-off that includes HP-ramp.
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L&T: Big petrochemical win

Dec 26: 8EPC scope covers LLDPE/HDPE swing unit with two trains of 575 KTPA each at Bina (MP). Project sits inside BPCL’s plan to expand refinery capacity from 7.8 MMTPA to ~11 MMTPA, tying petrochem integration to national self-sufficiency narrative
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Dec 26: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Dec 26: 1) ONGC hardwires EPC-grade utilities and GHSE into five-year LP separation and compression hire at this GVS
8It reads like a reliability playbook for wet, low-pressure gas that must still hit a tight 20–25 kg/cm2g delivery envelope.
8The hidden battle is not just compressor capacity, but metering discipline, firewater and fire-and-gas architecture, and statutory approvals being priced inside a “services” wrapper.
 
2) OIL Rajasthan 1000 HP pre-bid timeline signals a high-query tender, but only on the promoter’s clock
8The pre-bid conference and query cut-off are tightly scheduled, which favours bidders already mobilised on the tender. Late technical clarifications can be locked out by process, not merit.
8What gets answered—and what stays silent—will be the real signal.
 
3) ONGC tightens bid discipline for Sagar Bhushan berthing with price-leak rule shift and refreshed bidder undertakings
8ONGC’s Sagar Bhushan berthing tender amendment looks procedural on the surface, but the legal-engineering is aimed squarely at bidder behaviour and quote hygiene.
 
4) Corrigendum resets effluent storage logic and extends bid date for mobile METP and separator
8ONGC’s corrigendum does more than add days—it quietly rewrites what “mobile” means on the ground.
8A single bidder query forces a capacity-vs-configuration correction that can reshape who can physically comply and who gets priced out.
 
5) Owner extends cementing and BHP services tender to 07 January 2026 — Rajasthan field cementing and BHP services
8This cementing and BHP package has now slipped by 117 days from the original closing, pushing the bid window into January 2026.
8The technical burden looks designed for a narrow, high-capability vendor set, and the extension sequence hints that the market is taking longer to assemble compliant submissions.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards

Dec 26: 1) Jecon edges out a dead-heat field as BPCL locks package 4 DHT-KHT turnaround
8The award lands on a razor-thin L1–L2 spread that signals an unusually tight view of true turnaround cost. But the same bid ladder breaks sharply after the top two, exposing how differently contractors are pricing risk and readiness.
 
2) BPCL’s mahul refinery biogas O&M award
8Mahul refinery has priced biogas continuity as a waste-handling and municipal-interface problem, not a simple equipment maintenance job. The contract architecture quietly shifts breakdown disposal, logistics, and periodic feedstock supplementation into the contractor’s fixed price.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Dec 26: 1) Three top-tier OEMs enter EIL’s pneumatic conveying race for NRL’s PPU project
8What emerges from technical evaluation will quietly decide whether price competition actually happens, or whether compliance economics narrows the fight to execution certainty.
 
2) Technical bid opens with four admitted bidders for commissioning assistance services for NREP
8Four bidders are already admitted at the technical opening stage, but the real filter will be who can document readiness across PC&C tooling, HSE discipline, and rapid deployment.

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Downstream contracting briefs

Dec 26: 1) GAIL tightens polymer-plant material handling tender with floor price and hard documentary gates
8GAIL’s Pata tender for chemical/catalyst and polymer-material handling is less about “manpower supply” and more about process-risk containment inside LLDPE-II and the new butene-I plant.
 
2) NRL’s NREP RPTU instrumentation tender hardens entry gates and cashflow controls in a two-group EPCM-2 buildout
8NRL is packaging RPTU instrumentation as a specification-driven execution job where documentation maturity matters as much as site manpower. The two-group strategy looks like competition, but the qualification math and inspection density quietly narrow who can play. A GST-linked payment release mechanism adds a compliance-to-cash lever that could reshape bidder pricing and risk appetite.
 
3) Nine extensions push IOCL’s Barauni VRU EPCC-15 bid submission by 155 days, but scope accountability stays locked
8IOCL has shifted the Barauni VRU EPCC-15 deadline nine times, dragging bid submission from late July 2025 into early January 2026. Yet the clarifications show the promoter refusing to let bidders push civil and interface risks back to the owner, even as documents tighten utility tie-ins.
 
4) Bid closing pushed again as BPCL tightens control on pretreatment licensor risk for kochi refinery standalone SAF project
8BPCL’s pretreatment licensor tender is stretching the calendar while hardening governance through a nine-month offer-validity override. The technical file’s toughest story is not throughput—it’s the unresolved boundary on what “effluent treatment” actually means inside the vendor package.
 
5) GAIL extends Hazop-QRA bidding for NCR region pipelines
8GAIL has pushed the bid deadline by 7 days, but the real story sits in what bidders demanded and what the buyer refused to rebalance.

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Russia blames sanctions over delay in reaching LNG output target of 100 million tons

Dec 26: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Hiring of comprehensive AMC services for 31 nos. CNG dispensers Details
8Two-year rate contract for MDPE gas pipeline shifting and restoration Details
8Procurement of high-resolution CCTV camera Details
8Realignment of 30-inch Paradip–Haldia–Baruani crude pipeline across Mahanadi River using HDD method Details 
8Appointment of a Service Provider for Custom House Agent (CHA) Services for Coastal Cargo related formalities and Clearances of Vessels at nominated Ports Details
8Hiring of TPI services for charter hiring of one (01) mobile drilling rig (minimum 1000 HP – John #19) for one-year drilling services Details
8Supply of pneumatic valves, cylinders, timers, signal generator, antenna, and accessories for filling scale system Details
8Providing manpower handling-cum-housekeeping services at retail office Details
8Event management services for LPG distributors’ award night (2025–26) Details
8Procurement of Apple iPad Pro 13-inch Details
8Administrative building interior design and layout works at LPG plant Details
8Supply, testing, installation and training for automatic organic waste converter Details
8T4S audit of LPG plant Details
8Supply of electro-hydraulic dock leveler Details
8Procurement of M/s John Crane make mechanical seal spares Details
8Procurement of DDGS bags for Bargarh bio-refinery Details
8Procurement of critical spares for Greaves Cotton fire engine Details
8Electrical audit of Loni LPG bottling plant Details
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 8Oil marginally lower as investors weigh US data, geopolitical tensions Details
 8Oil rises as market weighs Venezuela supply risks Details
 8Russia to reach planned LNG production level of 100 million tons per year, but later Details
 8Sanctions derail Russia’s plans to increase liquefied natural gas production Details
 8Vietnam PM orders resolution of bottlenecks at GS Energy-backed LNG projects Details
 8Sovcomflot gets first Russian tanker for Arctic LNG 2 Details
 8L&T wins major BPCL petrochemical project at Bina Details
 8Gujarat government launches new policies for renewable energy and green hydrogen initiatives Details
 8Indian Federation of Green Energy signs MoU with Global Ethanol Association to advance ethanol as sustainable marine fuel Details
 8Sanctions delay Russia’s plan to triple LNG output, Novak says Details
 8Ukraine says it hit Russian gas processing plant, oil refinery Details
 8Russia blames sanctions over delay in reaching LNG output target of 100 million tons Details
 8AVG Logistics collaborates with Baidyanath LNG to promote use of LNG in Indian transport Details
 8Deadly road accident exposes fitness certificate scam in UP: cylinders certified without testing as agencies, brokers and officials collude, risking lives of people Details
 8No green fuel: MSRTC to focus on bringing in 8,000 diesel buses next year Details
 8From LPG to PAN-Aadhaar, these rules will change from January 1, 2026; know your benefits today Details
 8India’s top refiner quietly returns to Russian oil with shadowed supply route despite US sanctions Details
 8Adani Total Gas seeks shareholders’ approval for appointment of K Jairaj as independent director Details
 8Milind Torawane resigns as managing director of Gujarat Gas following government transfer Details
 8Bioethanol boom opens new avenues for upland farmers in Nellore Details
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Announcements

Dec 26: New Page 1 8Resignation of joint managing director [GSPL] Details 
8Paper on regasification, listed gas marketing and CGD entities [PNGRB] Details
8Intimation of resignation of managing director from the board of company [GGL] Details 
8Comparative Economics & Cost–Benefit Analysis of PNG/CNG for Industrial & Commercial Consumers: Pipeline Gas Supply vs Trucked LNG in a Specific GA [PNGRB] Details 
8KPI Green Energy-NTPC NOA for first green hydrogen + waste-to-energy project Details
8AVG Logistics Limited Partners with Baidyanath LNG to Accelerate LNG Adoption in India’s Transportation Sector [AVG] Details
8SEAMEC III sails for commencement of PRP-VIII A and DSF II pipeline replacement projects [Seamec] Details
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Seraikela-Kharsawan District City Gas Distribution Project

Dec 26: 8Project Name: Seraikela-Kharsawan District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

Reliance resumes Russian crude imports via non-sanctioned suppliers

Dec 25: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for composite works for constructing residential accommodation for ONGC Mehsana Details
8Tender for composite works for constructing residential accommodation for ONGC Mehsana Details
8Procurement of welded carbon steel and low-temperature carbon steel pipes, 16 inch and above, for PDH–PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of seamless carbon steel and low-temperature carbon steel pipes for PDH–PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Tender for mechanical and firefighting works including associated piping for ambient air heater project Details
8Tender for painting works in Manali Refinery Details
8Procurement of spares for Cameron make manual choke and gate valves for choke and kill manifolds Details
8Tender for replacement of wire rope in three high-mast lighting poles Details
8Tender for repair, servicing, and arresting of oil leakage of 1000 kVA transformer Details
8Procurement of spares for KPCL make air compressors Details
8Procurement of spares for Mahindra engine models 48051A, 4905AGMC2, and 275TU Details
8Supply and installation of street light poles, cables, and LED lighting systems Details
8Tender for expert supervisory services for inspection, troubleshooting, and overhauling of Claus air blowers Details
8Customs handling agency contract for vessels Details
8Tender for design, supply, installation, and commissioning of lube oil storage container and dispensing system Details
8Annual rate contract for composite repainting and insulation repair works of storage tanks, chimneys, and facilities Details
8Tender for preparation of detailed feasibility report for conversion of process CO? to sustainable aviation fuel Details
8Provision of comprehensive annual maintenance contract for T.K. Elevators make lifts Details
8Tender for integrated combo valve with actuator for 425 kg LPG cylinder Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of chain conveyor for STP online equipment Details
8Tender for procurement of motor Details
8Procurement of Easy-Laser D550 shaft alignment tool Details
8Tender for procurement of motor pulley for air fin cooler Details
8Tender for procurement of HTD belt Details
8Tender for procurement of gas gun/burner Details
8Tender for statutory testing of LPG underground vessels Details
8Procurement of batteries on buyback for fire engine and UPS Details
8Tender for assessment of tank bottom plate integrity through acoustic emission testing of installed storage tanks Details
8Tender for supply of electricity through open access from energy exchange Details
8Tender for handling services of chemicals, catalyst, and materials in LLDPE-II and New Butene-I plants Details
8Procurement of portable optical gas imaging camera with quantification for hydrocarbon leak detection Details
8Tender for procurement of digital barometer Details
8Tender for manpower-based facility management services for industrial safety and SORH assistance Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of addressable fire alarm system Details
8Tender for procurement of fire vehicle batteries Details
8Tender for preventive and breakdown maintenance of ESP control panels and transformers for CPP ESP system Details
8Tender for supply of galvanized steel chain link fence fabric Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of ACDB Details
8Tender for procurement of compressor spares Details
8Procurement of pressure safety valves for PRDS motor operated valves at main steam block Details
8Purchase of UHF handset and base station at LPG plant Details
8Tender for supply of skid-mounted dosing package Details
8Providing pick-up facilities for management and non-management staff Details
8Tender for procurement of tube bundle Details
8Tender for hydro testing and commissioning of Piyala–Jewar ATF pipeline Details
8Tender for procurement of anti-static additive Details
8Tender for design, supply, installation, commissioning, and AMC of screw air compressors at LPG bottling plants Details
8Tender for repair of bulged portion and skirt of coke drums in DCU Details
8Tender for supply and installation of redundant SCADA software and servers for TAS system Details
8Tender for decommissioning and shifting of three ALDS facilities to LPG bottling plant Details
8Procurement of inherent fire-retardant suits for employees Details
8Procurement of SS clips used in safety caps for self-closing valves of LPG cylinders Details
8Tender for carrying out external safety audit Details
8Tender for transportation of 1200 SCMH engine-driven package and related accessories Details
8Supply of large-size butterfly valves for polypropylene site Details
8Tender for procurement and installation of battery chargers Details
8Tender for supply and installation of VRF air conditioning system Details
8Procurement of hydroxyethyl cellulose for the year 2026–27 Details
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 8India’s new law to fuel energy needs, drive nuclear power growth Details
 8Legal turbulence around Tecnimont engineering giant introduces new uncertainty for India’s downstream expansion Details
 8KPI Green Energy gains on bagging Rs.128-cr NTPC order for green hydrogen project Details
 8Indian Peroxide to build 400 TPD chlor-alkali unit at Dahej Details
 8NTPC to set up plasma gasification-based green hydrogen plant in Uttar Pradesh Details
 8Nitin Gadkari promotes ethanol vehicles to reduce pollution and fuel imports Details
 8Bihar ethanol industry raises concerns over lower allocations for ESY 2025–26 Details
 8A big end to the year for BP Details
 8Cold weather returns and natural gas prices surge Details
 8PETRONAS supplies 1 MTPA of LNG to China Details
 8MOL & JERA launch Japan’s first large-scale low-carbon ammonia shipping project Details
 8Technip Energies secures major equipment orders for Commonwealth LNG project in Louisiana Details
 8INOX Air Products flags off India’s first LNG-fuelled cryogenic tanker Details
 8Uttarakhand cuts VAT on CNG and PNG; doubles pension for elderly destitute artists Details
 8India doubles its CNG network: energy transition towards decarbonization Details
 8Fuel prices on December 24, 2025: petrol, diesel, LPG, and CNG Details
 8Supreme Industries wins Rs.54-cr order from Bharat Petroleum Corporation Details
 8GAIL Varanasi Rs.25,000 CNG incentive scheme for commercial vehicles Details
 8Cochin Shipyard Limited announces major recruitment drive for 136+ positions Details
 8Russian oil: Reliance Industries secures one-month waiver on US sanctions Details
 8Indian company resumes buying discounted Russian oil Details
 8Six additional air quality monitoring stations to be set up to bolster anti-pollution efforts: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Details
 8Reliance resumes Russian crude imports via non-sanctioned suppliers Details
 8Oil marginally lower as investors weigh US data and geopolitical tensions Details
 8India’s petrol pump network surpasses 100,000; third-largest after the US and China Details
 8Rupee falls 16 paise to close at 89.79 against US dollar Details
 8India’s sanction-hit Nayara delays oil refinery maintenance work Details
 8India’s Reliance gets one-month US concession to buy Rosneft oil, sources say Details
 8Oil change: BP to exit Castrol India Details
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Announcements

Dec 25: 8Optimizing primary transport of petroleum products to OMC terminals: a case study of North India [PNGRB] Details
8Optimising LNG supplies from terminals in India [PNGRB] Details
8Additional session in auction market [IGX] Details
8Additional session in auction market [IGX] Details
8Intimation of receipt of GST penalty order and proposed appeal [RIL] Details
8Intimation of media interaction with NDTV Profit [Seamec] Details
8Intimation of appointment of managing director of Gujarat Gas Limited [GGL] Details
8Notice of postal ballot for appointment of independent director [ATGL] Details Details

ONGC tests a split lease-vs-ownership route for a 4–6 MMSCMD MOPU to unlock Mumbai high gas

Dec 24: 8ONGC is pushing a bridge-connected, high-pressure gas processing MOPU concept that looks less like a vessel hire and more like outsourcing an entire offshore facility.
8The early signals on “no dry dock due,” asset-age gates, and long-duration O&M accountability will narrow the field to a specific class of owners/operators.
8The bigger question sits in the contracting seams: how ONGC plans to enforce performance when leasing and operating roles are split.
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Cancelled: OIL’s Baghewala upper carbonate heavy-oil pilot tried to buy “seismic-to-steam” execution pedigree

Dec 24: 8OIL’s baghewala upper carbonate is being treated less like a reservoir study and more like a fracture–geomechanics–thermal EOR engineering problem with a pilot gate.
8The tender’s eligibility wording and phase-2 discretion together narrow who can credibly bid and how they price risk. 
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BPCL’s Andhra Pradesh refinery–petchem FID model goes two-stage

Dec 24: 8BPCL is tying its Andhra Pradesh greenfield refinery–petchem investment case to a staged financial model that mirrors estimate maturity rather than waiting for a single “final” number.
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JSC Mage takes the Aliabet TZ 3D seismic contract at Rs 1,060.1 crore 

Dec 24: 8ONGC’s Aliabet TZ/OBN award lands on a price point that will force execution discipline more than paperwork heroics
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Domestic gas tilts Delhi’s CCGT cost stack, leaving imported-gas stations exposed

Dec 24: 8According to FORM-15 fuel filings submitted by IPGCL and PPCL, Delhi’s gas-based generators showed sharply divergent cost structures in October–November 2025. GTPS relied entirely on imported gas in October, resulting in a landed cost of Rs.44.9/SCM, while Pragati Power Station-I operated in November on domestic gas at Rs.26.5/SCM. Despite consuming nearly double the gas volume, Pragati-I incurred only a marginally higher total fuel bill. The filings underline a system-wide tension between domestic gas access and imported fuel exposure. This divergence has direct implications for merit-order dispatch, variable cost recovery, and regulatory scrutiny of gas allocation outcomes.
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Qualified bidders hold, but Seros drops out as call-out economics stay unguaranteed in  Rajasthan field/well servicing package.

Dec 24: 8Oil India kept the biggest commercial uncertainty intact: no minimum deployment days per call-out, only SOR “approximations.
8Participating bidders tried to pin down utilisation and soften compliance friction, but the promoter mostly routed everything back through amendments and “as per tender.
8 With Seros disqualified and Weafri/Bvishal qualified, the tender’s real filter looks less like capability and more like who can survive strict process plus utilisation risk.
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Dec 24: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Dec 24: It is easy to get month-old import data but it is difficult to solicit forthcoming shipment information in India. We go through a laborious process of data collection to get you full import information, including company-wise, quantity-wise, port-wise, vessel-wise cargoes which are coming into India in the next 15-to30 days.
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8LNG
8Crude
8Chemicals
8Fertilizers
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8Coal & Coke
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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Dec 24: 1) BPCL’s Kochi polypropylene expander revamp reaches technical opening with a sole bidder
8A power recovery expander revamp is being treated like a reliability-critical rotating train job, not a routine package purchase. The real story now is how BPCL and EIL manage awardability, governance, and price-stage leverage in a single-bid corner.
 
2) Four bidders land in EIL’s vertical SPP technical round as HPCL’s LMBU package tightens compliance with a late datasheet swap
8A four-bidder technical opening can look healthy on paper, but this EIL-led package is built to disqualify on small compliance slips rather than reward “engineering creativity.”
 
3) Technical bids open with four global DCS OEMs in bpcl’s BPREP mega-automation package
8The tender has moved into technical evaluation with four heavyweight OEMs still standing, but the qualification math is designed to eliminate anyone without proven mega-scale hydrocarbon references.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part I)

Dec 24: 1) Om Tech Constructions undercuts the field on the civil maintenance ARC in Panipat refinery
8A “critical” refinery-wide civil arc has been priced with a clear outlier at the bottom, and the spread to the next bidder is not marginal.
 
2) Emergency DG set award shows sharp l1 undercut after a late scope reset
8IOCL’s Digboi expansion DG package quietly morphed from a small single set into two higher-capacity units, forcing bidders to rebase both engineering and risk. The award spread hints at one bidder pricing the new interface burdens as manageable while another treated them as open-ended.
 
3) HPCL’s minor projects expediting rate contract closes with a near-tied L1–L2 and a steep drop-off
8The award stack shows the competitive battle collapsed into a near-identical top two bids, while the rest of the field priced a very different risk reality.
 
4) KSB takes a single-bid award for vertical special purpose process pump under BPCL’s BPRED via EIL
8The award line suggests the owner accepted a lone price point, raising a quiet question about whether vendor pool design—not pump design—is the binding constraint.
 
5) IOCL’s ganga water intake PMC at Barauni closes with a razor-thin L1–L2 gap
8IOCL has bundled Ganga intake feasibility and execution-phase PMC into a single work order, but kept a clean escape hatch to pay only for Phase I if Phase II approvals do not land.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards (Part II)

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s Haldia super sucker MOSRU award narrows to two qualified bidders
8A one-year super sucker MOSRU hire was awarded where the real contract is not the machine, but the readiness regime behind it. Five of seven bidders fell out at qualification, leaving a thin price ladder that still priced above the estimate.
 
2) IOCL locks in UOP expert support for Haldia refinery PSA systems
8IOCL’s Haldia refinery has formally routed PSA reliability into a named-OEM support contract, leaving little room for competitive price discovery.
 
3) JPCL’s DHT TA 2026 decontamination expert award turns a GeM custom bid into a declared single-source buy
8HPCL has awarded a DHT turnaround-critical decontamination supervision package through a GeM custom bid that is openly framed as a nomination pathway.

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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Dec 24: 1) ONGC tightens directional drilling bid with appendix-1 SDMM compliance grid and ATC overwrite in directional drilling services
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum is less about dates and more about control: it hardens how bidders must prove SDMM and jar compliance, hole-section by hole-section.
8The move also resets the buyer-added ATC layer, signalling a governance clean-up before bid opening.
 
2) Oil India’s CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing tender shows a January 2026 extension trail,
8Oil India’s four-year CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing package is showing a deadline drift that stretches into January 2026
 
3) Bid clock extended to 29 December 2025, but the compliance data-chain burden stays heavy in ONGC/Odalarevu onshore terminal CAAQMS and CEMS
8ONGC has pushed the Odalarevu CAAQMS–CEMS tender deadline out to 29 December 2025, extending the runway for a submission that is more systems integration than instrument supply
 
4) Bid window keeps stretching for OIL’s one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing package
8Oil India limited has repeatedly moved the clock on its one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing tender while keeping the security and liability backbone largely intact.
8The clarifications that do land are operationally sharp, tightening how maintenance downtime and operating-charge triggers will be policed.
 
5) ONGC’s Rajahmundry hydraulic fracturing and coiled tubing tender gets another clock-reset
8ONGC has already used a mix of portal-extension, scope surgery and commercial easing to keep the Rajahmundry HF+CT package alive without rewriting the technical spine.
 
6) Oil India’s 3000 HP rig hire tender is pushed to 08 January 2026
8Oil India has extended the bid close again, taking its 3000 HP rig-package tender into January 2026.
8The more material signal sits behind the dates: securities validity and multiple technical acceptability bands have shifted while the promoter keeps “all other terms” formally intact.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Dec 24: 1) Oil India Limited locks thickness survey into OISD traceability while banning coating removal
8Oil India Limited is not just ordering UT readings; it is buying a repeatable integrity dataset tied to OISD logic, colour-marked points, and Annexure-grade reporting.
8The decisive twist is a hard ban on coating removal, forcing “through coating” UT and pushing field-method risk squarely onto the contractor.
 
2) ONGC pushes drilling training into physics-grade AR/VR with IDWE’s immersive competency framework
8ONGC’s drilling training arm is redrawing the boundary between classroom learning and operational readiness.
 
3) Oil India Limited tightens compliance gates in Baghewala crude sale tender
8Oil India Limited’s Baghewala crude sale tender is structured less like a routine sale and more like a compliance stress-test with a premium-percentage price lever.
 
4) Participated bidders walk into a frozen spec and a tight post-bid corridor in Ashoknagar pad-1 development wells civil works
8It is engineered to freeze technical conditions early and compress bidder manoeuvre after participation.
 
5) ONGC tightens post-participation clarification lanes for rig carrier TPI, squeezing overseas execution risk
8ONGC has framed this rig carrier TPI as a documentation-and-CAT witnessing gate, not a routine third-party visit.
8The real pressure point is overseas execution: fixed inspection duration, tight turnaround, and contractor-borne travel costs inside a lump sum.
8Participated bidders are left with limited room to reshape risk allocation once bids are in, because clarifications cannot change price or substance.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part III

Dec 24: 1) ONGC tightens call-out reservoir field services into a four-location capacity test with capped standby economics
8ONGC’s reservoir field services tender reads less like a routine slickline hire and more like a distributed readiness contract spanning four basins.
8The fine print quietly rewires utilisation risk, compresses data turnaround, and enforces a multi-unit posture with a penalty-backed trigger.
8The real story is how these levers could reshape who even dares to bid—and at what operating-day price.
 
2) ONGC’s MBCU hire for Cambay cementing hardwires fuel-indexed logistics pricing and punitive downtime deductions
8ONGC’s Cambay cementing tender turns bulk cement logistics into a controlled, auditable system with formula-tied transport pricing and strict acceptance gates.
 
3) ONGC tightens well services compressor hire with cloud RTMS and GPS-linked deductions
8ONGC’s Cambay asset compressor tender is less about air delivery and more about turning utilisation into auditable data.
 
4) Oil’s renewables empanelment ties M&A due diligence to BESS-ready DPR and PMC oversight
8Oil is building a single consultant layer that can value operating RE/CBG assets and then carry the engineering logic straight into bid strategy and execution oversight.
 
5) ONGC’s Tapti–NTP-2 RTU relocation award shows a 52.5% l2 premium over L1
8ONGC’s award lands with a steep bid ladder that signals sharply divergent views of offshore execution risk.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part IV

Dec 24: 1) ONGC’s vadodara chrome plating bid tightens facility-and-proof gates as all hydraulic services drops out
8ONGC’s CWS Vadodara chrome plating tender is behaving less like a routine workshop job and more like a custody-and-schedule risk transfer.
 
2) Qualified vs disqualified splits on documentation-heavy compliance in OIL’s hydraulic workover unit with snubbing bid
8Oil India Limited’s tender for a hydraulic workover unit with snubbing capability reads less like a buy and more like a compliance audit.
8One participating bidder qualified while another was disqualified, but the documents reveal the structural filters that typically decide these outcomes.
 
3) ONGC extends Ahmedabad fire protection revamp as foam and ups scope coherence stays the real pre-bid risk
8The reply trail points to discipline documents to resolve aFFF foam and ups scope conflicts that can materially reshape pump house design and commissioning readiness.
8The bidders who treat this as a mere extension notice may discover the real competition is document-integration discipline, not price.
 
4) ONGC extends GST compliance management consultancy at shared finance services Noida to 30 December 2025
8ONGC’s GST compliance tender is no longer a filing support exercise but a SAP-integrated control stack spanning returns, e-invoicing and litigation workflows.
8The one-week extension to 30 December 2025 looks timed to participation pressure in a two-packet GeM bid that demands both tooling and managed service depth.
8A clause-level inconsistency on dispute resolution signals why bidders may be slowing down, and where risk pricing could move.
 
5) Oil India Limited’s Dandewala GSU tender stretches 104 days as OIL tightens power and redundancy governance for gas processing complex gas sweetening unit.
8But the calendar slip is only the surface story: OIL is rewriting qualification proof, hard-coding a power-consumption credibility test, and reshaping compressor redundancy expectations without buying a standby machine.
8The tender is turning into a bid-governance exercise where the weakest link is less “EPC capability” and more “guarantee math that survives scrutiny.”
 
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Andhra Refinery Update

Dec 24: 1) Andhra VCM unit: MOOWR duty logic tightened, key license-fee payments deferred
8BPCL’s latest commercial amendment rewrites how customs-duty deferral is assumed, and it is far less generous for continuously consumed catalysts than many bidders would like. It also quietly pushes multiple license-fee milestones behind final investment approval, changing the cashflow profile of a licensor-led package.
 
2) Commercial amendment tightens escalation and proprietary-item disclosure for BPCL’s Ramayapatnam PFCCU block licensor selection
8BPCL and EIL have quietly shifted the economic battlefield from headline fees to long-tail escalation mechanics.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part I

Dec 24: 1) HPCL tightens the approvals chain for Butibori LPG & POL terminal rail siding
8HPCL’s Butibori terminal rail-siding package is written like an execution contract disguised as consultancy, pushing survey and approvals uncertainty into a fixed lump sum.
 
2) HPCL’s DHT SRU block TA 2026 tender shows a tight bid-governance play, with closing date extended
8HPCL is pricing a turnaround execution stack that goes far beyond “block TA” labels, down to valve, flange-class, and scaffolding micro-activities for the DHT-SRU block.
 
3) GAIL tightens QRA/hazop scoping while reserving a 25% swing clause in NCR region pipelines
8The company has quietly turned a “study tender” into a data-heavy, asset-anchored risk assignment by publishing pipeline-wise installations and river crossing coordinates.
 
4) CPCL’s dryer and purification system study tender moves into extension mode
8The company is treating a refinery PBFS conditioning study like a controlled-source procurement, not an open consultancy market.
 
5) HPRGEL’s solar + BESS PMC tender gets a short extension
8A single pre-bid clarification quietly rewires field scope, creating a contract-readiness trap for anyone pricing off the base document.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part II

Dec 24: 1) IOCL NRPL Panipat tightens HAZOP–QRA procurement with bidder-owned licensed modelling software for Panipat–Jalandhar LPG pipeline
8IOCL NRPL Panipat is forcing risk consultants to prove their modelling stack upfront, turning software provenance into a qualification filter
 
2) IOCL R&D Faridabad tightens the gate for on-call BDEP/FEED and cost-estimation engineering
8IOCL R&D’s quietly converts front-end engineering into an always-on utility for TIC, with “as and when” call-offs that can reshape project decisions upstream.
 
3) GAIL’s Pata storage-area BOG compressor tender tightens package responsibility
8GAIL’s Pata tender reads less like a compressor buy and more like an uptime architecture mandate, with API 618 package completeness pushed all the way to monitoring and battery-limit interfaces. But the real filter may sit outside the datasheet.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part III

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s Paradip refinery keeps PQC bar fixed while extending GeM deadline for SADC shutdown/DCU low-throughput support
8The tender locks “similar work” to refinery-grade mechanical hot/cold jobs, tightening who can realistically compete.
 
2) Seven date pushes take IOCL PBR cooling water network tender from 18 Aug 2025 to 12 Jan 2026
8The addenda show a disciplined pattern: only the bid submission and opening dates are rewritten while the rest of the tender posture is held intact.
 
3) BPCL Kochi refinery polypropylene project pump tender slips by 63 days
8The weekly cadence of deferrals reads like a participation or clarity problem inside a zero-deviation framework. What that does to vendor appetite, delivery realism, and bid-risk pricing is the real story behind the date change.
 
4) BPECL’s Bina BPREP LCWS pump package slips into a five-step bid extension cycle as identical-hydraulics PQC tightens the vendor funnel
8What matters now is whether the extra runway actually widens the qualified pool—or simply raises bidder risk buffers and price.
 
5) IOCL stretches flare-gas power EOI by three extensions
8The move quietly tests whether the market can document true “recovered flare gas” power credentials at refinery grade, not just propose generic gas-based generation. The pattern raises a single hard question for bidders: is the bottleneck technical fit, paperwork friction, or an unclear path from EOI to executable contract.

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Downstream contracting briefs: Part IV

Dec 24: 1) IOCL’s MJPL ILI tender doubles down on high-resolution UT certainty while refusing standby and extra-cleaning payouts
8The unresolved tension is whether the bidder pool prices the uncertainty into the base SOR—or whether the timeline (including your logged extensions) is IOCL’s quiet signal that participation is thinner than expected.
 
2) Bid deadline pushed to 29 Dec as IOCL gujarat refinery keeps the ra funnel open for FCC and FPU-1 shutdown piping
8A six-day extension looks minor, but in refinery shutdown piping it can decide whether bidders can actually lock welders, NDT capacity and heavy equipment.
 
3) IOCL extends Barauni refinery shutdown refractory tender
8The extension looks small on paper, but it lands on a tender that is both “critical” and restricted to class-i local suppliers, where participation elasticity is limited.

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Announcements

Dec 24: 8Monthly report on indigenous crude oil production, imports, and petroleum products for November 2025 [PPAC] Details
8Vedanta demerger to be completed by March 2026, creating five pure-play listed companies: Anil Agarwal [Vedanta] Details
8L&T wins major order for hydrocarbon onshore business [L&T] Details
8PNGRB invites public comments on proposed LNG terminal amendment regulations, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8PPPL releases MIS for October 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8PNGRB releases monthly bulletin for October 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Order issued under Section 73 of the CGST Act, 2017 [Refex] Details
8GE Shipping delivers 2005-built Suezmax crude tanker “Jag Lok” [GES] Details
8India Ratings reaffirms company’s credit ratings at IND AAA/Stable and IND A1+ [RIL] Details
8Government of Chhattisgarh and GAIL sign MoU to develop a gas-based fertilizer project in Chhattisgarh [GAIL] Details Details

Oil up as market weighs strong US economic growth, supply risks

Dec 24: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Rate contract for revisioning and testing of valves (including PSVs) of various services in P-25 units Details
8Procurement of test flange Details
8Procurement of mechanical spares Details
8Procurement of multifunction machine MFM (V2) (Q2) Details
8Refurbishment and testing of used dry gas seals of ISOM recycle gas compressor Details
8Procurement of Emerson make Fisher control valve spares Details
8Procurement of SRL make control valve Details
8Procurement of additive package ST2100 or ST2101 Details
8Procurement of automated real-time Micro PCR machine Details
8Procurement of sampling bottles Details
8Procurement of H?S gas detector Details
8Procurement of complete double seal Details
8Procurement of Diode Oring for HT & LT Switchgears Details
8Supply of CS valves Details
8Procurement of caustic soda lye Details
8Procurement of M/s Standard Engineers make spares for RPF Mother Liquor Flash Drum Agitator (Tag No. 9061-21-AG-1437) Details
8Procurement of M/s Bollfilter India Pvt. Ltd. make OHCU RGC DGS filter element Details
8Procurement of liquid nitrogen (in kg) – Q3 Details
8Procurement of bladder Details
8Supply of spares for closed loop sampling system Details
8Engagement of engineering services agency for additional support requirements for BDEP Details
8Procurement of NDE bellow sub-assembly Details
8Rate contract for rendering professional services for site surveying and soil investigation Details
8Procurement of filter cartridges Details
8Procurement of ammonium thiocyanate Details
8Procurement of safety valves Details
8Procurement of mechanical seal spares for Flowserve Details
8Rate contract for rendering professional services for site surveying and soil investigation Details
8Supply of 3-Phase Series Reactor, 72002V, 261.5 kVAR, Non-Magnetic, Air-Cored, Copper Wound Details
8Procurement of HDPE bottles Details
8Supply of small bore pipe fittings Details
8Annual maintenance contract for Honeywell Enraf TFMS system Details
8Procurement of flexible hose with connection Details
8Procurement of gasket Details
8Procurement of Honeywell handheld wired reader Details
8Procurement of Siemens PLC spares Details
8Procurement of pipes Details
8Procurement of Thulium Fiber Laser systems Details
8Annual maintenance contract for crude oil analyzer Details
8Supply of valves Details
8Three-year rate contract for servicing of reciprocating compressor valves Details
8Overhauling, testing, and calibration of servomotors Details
8Visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness testing of LPG pipelines Details
8Procurement of gear box Details
8Annual maintenance contract for expert supervision services for troubleshooting and overhauling of SRU Micro STG Details
8Procurement of pipe fittings Details
8Procurement of demister pads Details
8Office pantry management at Shillong retail territory Details
8Procurement and installation of AdBlue filling machine with filling line for liters containers Details
8Supply of centrifugal pump and flameproof motor Details
8Annual Rate Contract (ARC) for maintenance of liquid nitrogen storage vessels Details
8Annual Rate Contract for rodent, snake, and lizard control treatment in electrical substations and instrumentation control rooms Details
8Structural and grating works Details
8Service contract for providing O&M assistance for terminals and pipelines Details
8Procurement of non-intrusive magnetic type pig signaller under HVJ pipeline network Details
8Procurement of electrical consumable items for temporary connections in plant and township areas Details
8Procurement of fire-resisting filing cabinet Details
8Procurement of gaskets Details
8Procurement of prime mover for hauling ethylene semi-trailer for PDH Unit Details
8Activities or simulator-based TT driver training Details
8Annual Rate Contract for septic tank and sewage chamber cleaning services Details
8Decommissioning, shifting, reinstallation, and recommissioning of 1200 SCMH gas engine compressor Details
8Interior works in Central and ETP Control Rooms of Secondary Tank Farm Details
8Procurement of multi-purpose pumping unit Details
8Procurement of OR centrifugal compressor for Polypropylene Unit Details
8Procurement of reciprocating compressor for Polypropylene Unit Details
8Engagement of consultant for ADC and Development Planning of Senior Executives Details
8Procurement of reciprocating pump Details
8Hiring agencies for PE laying works at SK & WS GA from empanelled vendors Details
8Supply, installation, and commissioning of boil-off gas (BOG) compressor Details
8Fabrication and supply of electrical LT panels for EV-2000-1 drilling rig Details
8Expression of Interest from vessel owners/operators for hiring of Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) for gas processing Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of outdoor current transformer at 66 kV switchyard Details
8OEM repair of HP pump and supply of chemicals for Rochem Water Maker Details
8Procurement of M/s SERTEC make monitoring unit for lightning protection system Details
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