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Panna and Tapti offshore O&M award.  E&P contracting brief: Part I.  E&P contracting brief: Part II.  Downstream contracting briefs: Awards.  Technical bid opens with three compressor OEMs in BPCL’s Bina BPREP PIAS package.  PNGRB's LPG pipeline contracting briefs.  Downstream contracting briefs.  Air Separation Unit BOO tender: An Update.  Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector.  BPCL leads nationwide push to expand PNG and CNG adoption.  Announcements.  Three-way race opens for ONGC’s ADR-I & NLM-14 package.  Record trades put IGX on the map — but not yet on a curve.  The Mori-5 blow out: ONGC has no time to pause .  From open bidding to restricted access: ONGC narrows the vendor universe.  Who is going to be the next boss of this PSU refinery? .  The DGH: Government is for more control than autonomy .  Crude price becomes HR policy in this PSU.  E&P contracting brief for the day.  Downstream contracting briefs.  ONGC Columbia: The company is still actively tendering away.  Batch transport of green ammonia with LPG through a pipeline: Is it feasible?.  ONGC reservoir field services call-out: Update.  This toluene extraction unit tender tightens licensor liability while pulling battery-limit operability into the BDEP contract.  ONGC’s ADR-I and NLM-14 EPC clarifications shut down bidder attempts to reprice liability, tax and offshore weather risk.  Downstream contracting briefs: Award.  ONGC’s 20 kw solar relocation at new Nandasan GGS hardens scope and pricing risk onto the contractor .  BPCL advances in unconventional oil with Abu Dhabi discovery.  Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Unified tariff protects households: Gas allocation protects favourites - and power markets absorb the distortion.   Coimbatore District City Gas Distribution Project.  India has achieved milestone in energy self-sufficiency with crude oil discovery in Abu Dhabi, says petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri .  Announcements.  Energy storage: End of the road for gas-based power?.  Green ammonia: Export dreams meet grid math in government modelling .  Household gas gets relief; industry absorbs the distance penalty.  Netzsch undercuts Boerger, Vogelsang by 25–29% on rotary lobe pump package.  PBFS dryer and purification study tender is cancelled.  E&P contracting brief: Part I.  

Panna and Tapti offshore O&M award

Jan 16: 8The spread hints at a risk-pricing split
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Jan 16: 1) ONGC tightens reliability economics for 10k Production Testing hire with residual-life gate and zero-rate breakdown math
8ONGC’s Rajahmundry 10k PTS tender is written like a reliability contract disguised as an equipment hire, with uptime monetised in both payment eligibility and penalties.
8The technical spec stack pushes bidders toward proppant-resilient flowback capability and metered test deliverables rather than “separator on wheels” compliance.
8The real story sits in how mobilisation is defined and how downtime is converted into deductions, reshaping who can bid competitively.
 
2) Sunpetro’s Gujarat workover rig tender hardwires no-minimum-callouts, score-linked penalties, and 75-ton class equipment bars
8Sunpetro is not just hiring a 50T workover rig; it is quietly re-writing utilization and performance risk into the commercial architecture.
8The BOQ structure forces bidders to bet on callout frequency and movement intensity across multiple Gujarat sites, while the contract keeps strong remedies in reserve.
8The most consequential lever sits in a post-award performance scorecard that can cut payments, but whose final mapping logic is still left to be negotiated.
 
3) ONGC’s Dehradun civil repair rate-contract award shows a 9–33% ladder
8ONGC’s Dehradun civil O&M award stack reveals a tight mid-pack but a sharply higher outlier that stretches the pricing ladder.
8The tender’s own playbook pushes L2/L3 toward L1 economics, raising questions on who can actually deliver service-level responsiveness without cutting corners.
8The real story is what this spread says about risk pricing, capacity confidence, and the next township maintenance bid cycle.
 
4) Ellison oilfield services undercuts the field for KH#4 Khubal EWTF award
8ONGC Tripura asset’s KH#4 Khubal EWTF award lands with a price ladder that looks less like competition and more like two different interpretations of the same risk.
8The L1 quote sits far below both the GeM estimate and the next bidder, in a package where PNGRB-linked dehydration outcomes and hazardous-area compliance are non-negotiable.
8What matters now is whether the contract’s option-clause flexibility and subcontracting constraints amplify execution risk or simply punish inefficient bidders.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Jan 16: 1) Two bidders knocked out as ONGC tightens paperwork gates around Ahmedabad asset scraping winch hiring
8This scraping winch tender shows a familiar field-services story: the risk sits where the stuck wire does.
8Two bidders are already out, but the document pack points to a sharper compliance filter than most vendors price for.
8The real contest is whether procedural “non-payable” traps and POA discipline thin the field before performance even starts.
 
2) Pre-bid reset and security-deposit easing tighten bidder discipline in ONGC’s 250 mw captive ists-connected wind LSTK tender
8ONGC’s corrigendum does not loosen project risk; it reallocates it with sharper governance levers.
8The headline changes look procedural, but the hidden impact is in how land and wind-data flexibility is permitted only under owner-controlled validation and benefit capture.
8Bidder strategies will hinge less on pricing creativity and more on document provability and execution architecture.
 
3) ONGC extends mumbai high MOPU EOI deadline to 30 January 2026
8ONGC’s mumbai high MOPU push is now running on a revised clock, with the EOI deadline extended to 30 January 2026 against an originally stated 09 January close.
8The timing creates a sequencing puzzle because ONGC’s capability-presentation meeting is scheduled for 22–23 January, potentially before the new close unless reworked.
8Behind the date change sits a high-bar offshore package—90–100 bar compression, bridge-linked tie-in scope, and “no dry dock due”—that could be compressing the eligible vendor pool.
 
4) ONGC’s directional drilling services tender on GeM is extended to 30 January 2026, keeping high-spec MWD-SDMM compliance in play
8ONGC has pushed its directional drilling services bid deadline out to 30 January 2026 after a visible extension trail.
8Beneath the calendar move sits a tender that hard-wires OEM refurbishment proof, standby tooling redundancy, and penalty-backed real-time data delivery.
8The extension gives bidders more time, but it also exposes where cost, logistics, and compliance risk are clustering in this package.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards

Jan 16: 1) BPREP pump package hardens NPSH and PPP-MII enforcement, squeezing flexibility in API 610 compliance
8BPCL and EIL have boxed bidders into a tight API 610 corner for BPREP’s special purpose process pumps, with NPSH, impeller diameter, and EOC margin acting as a three-way choke point. Pre-bid traffic shows vendors trying to swap OH2 for BB2 and relax hydraulic limits, but the owner response stays largely uncompromising. A new PPP-MII execution clause turns local content into a cashflow lever, reshaping who can bid aggressively without liquidity strain.
 
2) IGGL awards DDPL feeder lines and Baihata compressor-despatch EIA package
8L2 is 85.2% above L1, hinting at either sharp undercutting or fundamentally different effort assumptions.
 
3) MRPL bio-ATF pump award
8Find out who won the deal
 
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Technical bid opens with three compressor OEMs in BPCL’s Bina BPREP PIAS package

Jan 16: 8The real filter is not EMD or headline eligibility, but the NDA-gated access and the compliance burden baked into deviation formats, spares schedules and ITP discipline. What gets rejected or loaded in technical evaluation will decide how many of these three actually reach the priced-bid stage.
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PNGRB's LPG pipeline contracting briefs

Jan 16: 1) Paradip–Raipur LPG pipeline: Potential bidders raise a loud protest
8Paradip is a “source” on paper, but the refinery and import terminal are flagged as captive. IOCL warns that Paradip refinery and Paradip import terminal cannot be used as a source by non-IOCL bidders. That creates an immediate asymmetry in how bidders can underwrite supply. Also, spur lines move from “obligation” to “bidder choice,” blurring what the corridor is actually authorizing
 
2) PNGRB’s Jhansi–Sitarganj LPG pipeline bid rewrites origin and length, then pushes key data risk back onto bidders
8The regulator has turned a “Gwalior–Sitarganj” concept into a Jhansi-origin trunk-and-spur system and extended the bid calendar into late January 2026. But when bidders asked for coordinates, source parameters and RoU specifics, the clarifications largely redirected them to “bid terms” and self-diligence. The real fight will be over who can privately de-risk interfaces and throughput economics before committing to a 605 km corridor.
 
3) PNGRB’s Ennore–Puducherry LPG pipeline bid saw a 160 km to 200 km reset before cancellation
8This leaves the real question: was the corridor definition too unstable to award cleanly?
 
4) PNGRB’s Ennore–Gummidipoondi LPG pipeline authorisation bid is cancelled
8This leaves bidders with sunk compliance prep and locked-up securities
8The unresolved question is whether this is a corridor rethink or a process reset that will reappear with tougher or softer entry bars.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Jan 16: 1) Composite works for a PP plant: An update
8This tender pack is less about what gets built and more about how every weld, pour, and loop will be policed on paper and in the field. The drawing workflow forces engineering depth before fabrication momentum. The hidden competition is documentation stamina: hold points, punch lists, PMI, calibration trails, and permit-to-work discipline decide who survives execution.
 
2) BPREPP pressure vessel RFQ tightens the gate with zero deviation bidding and NDa-first access
8The package looks routine until you track how it removes the oxygen from the clarification cycle. The tender pairs zero deviation evaluation with an NDA regime that can control who even gets to see the technical bundle in time. The real competition may hinge less on shop capability and more on compliance throughput and confidentiality governance.
 
3) EIL extends NRL’s PPU SPP pump bid clock as “revised PDS” technical amendments tighten API 610 compliance
8EIL’s PPU pump package looks like a standard API 610-driven procurement, but bidder questions show the hydraulic basis is still being stabilised through “revised PDS” amendments. At the same time, “zero deviation” is being enforced hard, with operating-window arguments rejected as non-acceptable deviations.
 
4) IOCL’s Paradip refinery mechanical shutdown services bid stretches through five extensions
8But without relaxing the original PQC anchor
 
5) MRPL pushes co-processing/AFR solid waste package to 19 Jan close
8This is while keeping two-contractor 60:40 split pressure intact
 
6) NRL extends bid timeline for ABEPL bioethanol EU REACH registration
8This is as bidders flag GeM onboarding and EU-entity frictions.
8What’s left unsaid is whether the 3-month REACH completion expectation is realistically priced when MSDS creation and data defensibility sit upfront. Only two prospective bidders are recorded as attending the pre-bid meeting.
 
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Air Separation Unit BOO tender: An Update

Jan 16: 8The 56-day push suggests bidders needed more runway to close bankability, OEM alignment, and interface clarity without any term relief. The unanswered question is whether the underlying issues were technical, commercial, or both.
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Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Jan 16: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
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BPCL leads nationwide push to expand PNG and CNG adoption

Jan 16: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Hiring of 32 nos. of LCV for carrying of CNG mobile cascade from mother station to daughter / daughter booster stations on annual rate contract basis for a period of 5 years for CGD project Details
8Supply of non-sparking tools and hammers for Group-B Details
8Providing revenue assistance services (other than retired land acquisition staff) and other associated service Details
8Comprehensive AMC of UPS installed Details
8Procurement of portable mass flow meter kit Details
8Purchase of 75 kVA servo system Details
8Last mile connectivity (LMC) work Details
8Appointment of agency for M&I with decontamination of HP separator 05VV03 vessel in OHCU unit Details
8Hiring of consultants for topographical & soil investigation surveys and permanent benchmark construction Details
8Supply, retrofitting and installation of 1000 A ACB Details
8Hot repair of 5kg, 35kg, and 47kg cylinders Details
8Procurement of spares for transmitters Details
8Supply of nylon threads, lot & hippo seals, caps and O-rings at LPG terminal Details
8Procurement of pigtails for fiber optic cable connections Details
8Annual maintenance contract (AMC) for chiller machine Details
8Procurement of tamper-evident seals for LPG cylinders Details
8Procurement of centrifugal pump set Details
8Procurement of Coperion make spares Details
8Procurement of gearbox spares Details
8Hiring of event management agency for Saksham 2025–26 events Details
8Procurement of carbon steel pressure vessel Details
8Mechanical works for execution of bio-ATF project Details
8Composite works at PPU offsite area for polypropylene project Details
8Annual rate contract for procurement of pulleys for CNG compressor packages Details
8Repair and servicing of IPC make high pressure (HP) hot water cleaning machine Details
8Constructing racks for storage using NDT rejected tubings Details
8Procurement of Eagle make seal spares Details
8Procurement of pilot shaft for impregnator screw Details
8Procurement of deluge valves Details
8Procurement and installation of online partial discharge monitoring system Details
8Procurement of density cum viscosity meter Details
8Miscellaneous area cleaning, ground preparation, and related works Details
8Procurement of compressor spares Details
8Procurement of actuator gearbox spares for coker valves in delayed coker unit Details
8Procurement of airtight electrochemical cell with accessories Details
8Providing services for hiring of PIDS operators at Thamna PS & Vadinar DT Details
8Procurement of FRP manhole cover with frame for underground storage tanks Details
8Annual maintenance contract for Emerson DCS system for 3 years Details
8Procurement of AFFF fire fighting foam concentrate Details
8Dismantling of old naphtha tanks and unused pipeline assets Details
8Procurement of DCU bridge crane spares on OEM basis Details
8Procurement of closed sampling system Details
8Annual maintenance contract for diesel engines of fire water pumps Details
8Procurement of fuel gas compressor oil top-up pump Details
8Statutory safety audit Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of dual fuel kit for DG sets Details
8Supply of valves Details
8Supply, installation, and commissioning of servo level gauge Details
8Supply of sand filter, carbon filter, and associated accessories Details
8Procurement of industrial tray dryer Details
8Supply of LED lights for SV/RT/IPS stations Details
8Hiring of support and peripheral manpower Details
8Supply of class-A power quality meter with accessories Details
8Supply of potable water (UV & RO treated) through tankers Details
8Hiring of catering services for canteen Details

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8EIA: Henry Hub natural gas spot prices to fall in 2026 before rising in 2028 Details
8When oil falls but Exxon and Chevron don’t Details
8Russia’s oil revenue slump hits budget where it hurts Details
8Lake Charles cancellation shifts tide in US LNG wave Details
8MOL Global Ship Management deploys predictive engine maintenance for 12 LNG carriers Details
8Wärtsilä lines up decade-long deal for 12 LNG vessels with MOL Details
8Larsen & Toubro wins large order from Petronet LNG for storage tank project at Dahej complex Details
8Global clean fuel investment worth $100-bn annually needed by 2030: WEF Details
8NTPC Green Energy to form 50:50 JV with GAIL for setting up renewable energy projects Details
8Oil settles down 4% as Trump comments ease Iranian supply concerns Details
8Budget 2026: Oil industry seeks abolition or review of OID cess on pre-NELP and nomination blocks Details
8Russia bets big on non-energy JVs with India Details
8‘Oil is everything for the Iranian economy — it fuels power, protests and the paradoxes of Iran’ Details
8Abolish OID cess on pre-NELP, nomination blocks: Oil industry's Budget wishlist Details
8Iran tensions and Trump’s threats trigger fresh volatility in global oil markets Details
8India’s Russia oil trade may dip again, stranding cargoes at sea Details
8BP flags up to $5 billion in low-carbon energy impairments Details
8Woodside to supply LNG to JERA during Japan's winter peak Details
8LNG conversion contract signed by Drydocks World Details
8Can Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, set oil prices on fire? Details
8IndianOil chairman meets British Columbia premier to deepen India–Canada energy ties Details
8BPCL leads nationwide push to expand PNG and CNG adoption Details
8OMCs likely to register strong Q3FY26 on higher refining margins Details
8India fuel rates today: Petrol, Diesel prices show minor fluctuations Details
8India cuts Russian oil imports and seeks new suppliers - Bloomberg Details
8India has found an alternative to Russian oil: imports of raw materials from Russia are decreasing Details
8India maintains diversified oil procurement strategy across traditional and new suppliers Details
8India’s oil economy defies geopolitical shocks as sanctions deepen discounts and keep prices in check: Report Details
8How every $1 rise in crude oil prices boosts ONGC and Oil India revenues? Details
8OPEC regains share in India as Russian oil imports slump in December Details
8NTPC Green Energy and GAIL sign agreement to launch renewable energy JV Details
8Fluid Quip Technologies expands deployment of Low Energy Distillation™ technology at United Ethanol Details
8Nordsol chosen to power Norway’s new bioLNG plant Details
8India's green hydrogen sector pushes for policy shift in Budget 2026 Details
8India's chemical market pegged at $300 billion by 2030: BCG report Details
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Announcements

Jan 16: New Page 1 8Woodside executes five-year winter LNG supply agreement with JERA commencing 2027 [Woodside] Details
8PNGRB monthly bulletin for November 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Clarifications on petroleum and LPG pipeline from Jhansi to Sitarganj [PNGRB] Details
8Additional clarifications on petroleum and LPG pipeline from Paradip (Odisha) to Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [PNGRB] Details
8Extension of timeline for submission of views/comments on PNGRB Access Code Regulations, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Application by Asian Paints (Polymers) Private Limited for authorization to lay, build and operate a dedicated gaseous ethylene pipeline under PNGRB regulations [PNGRB] Details
8Intimation of board meeting for approval of unaudited financial results and trading window closure [JD] Details
8Assignment of “Excellent” ESG rating to the company [Adani Port] Details
8Intimation of schedule of investor/analyst call for Q3 and nine months ended December 31, 2025 financial results [ATGL] Details
8Intimation of board meeting to consider unaudited financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 [Selan] Details
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Three-way race opens for ONGC’s ADR-I & NLM-14 package

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s international competitive bid for additional development of these fields has drawn tbidders.
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Record trades put IGX on the map — but not yet on a curve

Jan 15: Record trading of 11.2 mmbtu and record monthly volume of in April 2025 in IGX does mean a stable forward curve yet
8The volatility in delivery-day volumes (ranging from ~5 to over 17 MMSCMD) suggests that seasonal and event-driven procurement still dominates, rather than continuous baseload optimisation through the exchange. Details

The Mori-5 blow out: ONGC has no time to pause

Jan 15: 8In the wake of the blowout of of the Mori-5 well was run privately under a Production Enhancement Contract, the market expected some recalibration of the programme by ONGC.
8But there is likely to be no pause by the public sector E&P major
8In fact, ONGC plans to give out more wells under the same PEC regime. Details

From open bidding to restricted access: ONGC narrows the vendor universe

Jan 15: The move to shortlist vendors for limited tenders marks a structural tightening of ONGC’s procurement philosophy, privileging predictability and control over broader competition in high-impact services.
8Find out the list of these items
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Who is going to be the next boss of this PSU refinery?

Jan 15: 8Find out what is going on at the helm of this public sector refiner
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The DGH: Government is for more control than autonomy

Jan 15: 8Find out why this is so
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Crude price becomes HR policy in this PSU

Jan 15: 8This is an unusual internal decision
 8The move marks a sharp departure from traditional PSU compensation logic tied to performance or profitability.
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Jan 15: 1) ONGC Rajahmundry’s ILM tender hardens bid compliance and compresses mobilisation timelines
8ONGC’s Rajahmundry ILM package is being framed less as a routine service hire and more as a compliance-stress test for rig-ready vendors.
8The tender’s schedule architecture and 45-day mobilisation ceiling quietly reshuffle who can credibly bid across HP/NG-2000 versus NG-1500 classes.
 
2) Cygnus edges Silver Touch by 0.1% in ONGC’s WON basin IT resources megabundle award
8The award spread is razor-thin, hinting that bidders converged on a similar risk view despite the heavy OEM-control and acceptance regime.
8The real story sits in what the documents force the winner to absorb—completeness risk, security posture, and the operational cutover burden.
 
3) Seven qualify as ONGC’s GST compliance platform
8ONGC’s Noida shared finance tender is shaping into a tool-first GST control-room procurement, not a routine compliance retainer.
8Ten bidders entered, but only seven cleared technical qualification—leaving a narrowed field where mobilisation speed and SAP-linked reconciliation credibility will matter as much as brand weight.
8The missing piece is what participating bidders tried to renegotiate after submission, and whether ONGC’s responses shifted risk boundaries or simply reinforced standard PSU discipline.
 
4) ONGC’s industrial gases supply tender for rigs E-2000-8 and E-2000-6 is extended
8The industrial gases supply requirement supports two active drilling rigs across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
8The tender’s acceptance mechanics are unusually unforgiving for a routine supply package, with pressure-linked pro-rata payments and a hard 48-hour fulfilment expectation baked into operations.
8The extension shifts bidder strategy, but the document set provided still leaves the underlying “why now” unanswered.
 
5) Ovlsc’s CPO-05 workover rig tender closing pushed to 19 January 2026 — ongc videsh/cpo-05 workover rig
8ONGC videsh’s Colombia arm has moved the CPO-05 workover rig bid deadline, buying the market extra days to assemble a compliance-heavy two-bid submission.
8The underlying tender structure tightly constrains pricing behaviour through explicit standby/non-operating caps and a quote-all-items rejection trigger.
8What the promoter has not yet put beyond doubt in the shared pack is the exact corrigendum wording that reconciles the new timeline with the original 14 January 2026 close.
 
6) ONGC’s offshore 3d broadband seismic package gets a second date push
8The tender architecture remains uncompromising: integrated acquisition plus processing, strict deviation discipline, and a “no consortium” market filter.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Jan 15: 1) Refiner tightens open access power buying IEX trader-only, 5 MW track record gate
8The eligibility filter is not symbolic: Category-I cERC licensing, IEX membership, and a quantified 5 mw execution benchmark compress the bidder universe before pricing even begins. The most consequential lever sits in the structure, not the BoQ: a client-controlled extension at the same rates quietly reshapes how traders price risk and desk coverage
 
2) Ambient air heater tender makes electrical contractors own PMCC integration risk
8The package quietly shifts the hardest work into brownfield integration—breaker changes, feeder interfaces, and protection coordination inside the existing lt/pmcc ecosystem. The tender bundle also carries date and timing contradictions that can turn compliance into a bidder-selection lever unless corrected in writing.
 
3) FRE revamp BDEP study bid sees deadline pushed twice
8This is as scope deepens into existing equipment validation. The study is less like a concept study and more like a brownfield validation package once existing exchangers and utility updates enter the deliverable frame.
 
4) IOCL extends ZWTL empanelment
8Find out what is going on
 
5) Petronet LNG’s Dahej water block package locks in fixed-price risk as EIL rejects schedule relief and escalation
8Petronet LNG’s Dahej water block package is pushing bidders into detailed-engineering liability for battery limit pressures, pump head, and pipe class choices. EIL’s replies show a consistent “follow tender” posture even where bidders flag mismatches and downstream redesign impacts. The bigger story is how commercial rigidity and ground-risk disclaimers are being stacked on top of technical ambiguity.
 
6) IOCL keeps tight PQCs as MSW-based CBG feasibility bid timeline extended
8Bidder pleas to relax PQCs, timelines, and cashflow milestones are repeatedly shut down.
 
7) GAIL’s Karaikal pipeline O&M support ARC vanishes from site after publication
8The tender’s reported cancellation now leaves the market reading signals from what was published, not from what was awarded.
 
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ONGC Columbia: The company is still actively tendering away

Jan 15: 8What is going on
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Batch transport of green ammonia with LPG through a pipeline: Is it feasible?

Jan 15: 8The consultancy tender turns a pipeline study into a full supply-chain proof exercise, from producer injection to consumer receipt, with compliance sign-off embedded in the scope.
8The unusual catch is that bidders must build the demand evidence themselves through EOIs, even as critical “as-built” baselines are deferred until after award.
8What looks like a feasibility brief is quietly a template for how legacy LPG corridors could be repurposed into green-molecule logistics without committing to capex too early.
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ONGC reservoir field services call-out: Update

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s latest corrigendum does not rewrite the downhole scope, but it rewires how bidders survive evaluation and fund the risk.
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This toluene extraction unit tender tightens licensor liability while pulling battery-limit operability into the BDEP contract

Jan 15: 8It is structured less like a license purchase and more like an operability warranty, with early PGTR timing and explicit recovery expectations.
8The battery-limit language quietly drags solvent systems, effluent interfaces, and safety philosophy into the licensor’s accountability envelope.
8The real story is how the liability cap and “no extra payment” engineering posture could reshape who bids and how aggressively they qualify performance.
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ONGC’s ADR-I and NLM-14 EPC clarifications shut down bidder attempts to reprice liability, tax and offshore weather risk

Jan 15: 8Participating bidders tried to reopen the usual offshore EPC pressure points—arbitration seat, liability cap, payment speed, insurance placement, and “export” tax framing.
8ONGC’s replies repeatedly force bidders back into standardised tender terms, turning pre-bid into a compliance gate more than a negotiation forum.
8The real story is which risks ONGC refused to dilute—and which technical clarifications quietly change how the pipelines and metering package must be built.
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Downstream contracting briefs: Award

Jan 15: IndianOil picks a transaction advisor for vessel acquisition
8IndianOil’s vessel acquisition advisory award is less about powerpoint structuring and more about controlling post-close cashflows and governance risk. The corrigendum quietly rewrites diligence expectations and forces transfer pricing and takeover planning into the advisory core. The bid spread between L1 and the rest tells its own story about how aggressively firms priced this specialised, time-bound mandate.
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ONGC’s 20 kw solar relocation at new Nandasan GGS hardens scope and pricing risk onto the contractor

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s Mehsana asset is treating a 2 x 10 kw solar relocation like a compliance-heavy electrical works package, not a simple shift-and-hook-up job.
8Internal inconsistencies around bid validity and integrity-pact language create procedural risk that can quietly decide responsiveness outcomes before pricing is even compared.
8The real margin tension sits in the “good engineering practice” obligation that can expand scope on site without extra cost or time.
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BPCL advances in unconventional oil with Abu Dhabi discovery

Jan 15: 8Bharat PetroResources Limited, the exploration arm of BPCL, has made a breakthrough with the discovery of unconventional oil in Abu Dhabi's Onshore Block 1
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Jan 15: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Jan 15: 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
8All tankers
8Bulk and Dry cargo
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Unified tariff protects households: Gas allocation protects favourites - and power markets absorb the distortion

Jan 15: 8PNGRB’s unified tariff makes the protection hierarchy explicit: CNG and PNG-D pay Zone-1 even beyond 300 km, while industry, fertiliser and power remain exposed.
 8In this state's generation data, a similar hierarchy is visible: One unit is locked into imported RLNG economics (at Rs 44.2/SCM), while another remains largely domestic (at Rs 26.5/SCM). The result is not “cheaper gas” or “cheaper transport”.
8It is cost pooling and ring-fencing, with non-protected segments becoming the balancing item.
8Households are insulated by design. Certain generators are protected by allocation. Power markets absorb the distortion — quietly, efficiently, and without a budget line. Details

Coimbatore District City Gas Distribution Project

Jan 15: 8Project Name: Coimbatore District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

India has achieved milestone in energy self-sufficiency with crude oil discovery in Abu Dhabi, says petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Jan 15: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Procurement of rated blinds for routine maintenance at process plants Details
8Tender for simulator-based defensive driving training for TT drivers Details
8Tender for procurement of gelling agent Details
8Procurement of octane booster additive Details
8Supply and fixing of vinyl stickering, SOP boards, banners, and iron standees Details
8Three-year AMC of Shinkhawa vibration monitoring system for MMBPL and MUPL Details
8Procurement of Instonnic glass tube rotameter spares for HCU, MSB, and DCU Details
8Procurement of spare vibration probes for LP air compressor Details
8Tender for procurement of soft soap Details
8Tender for operation of in-house statutory testing and painting services of LPG cylinders Details
8Tender for geotechnical investigation and topographical survey for master plan and DPR Details
8Tender for electrical and associated works for ambient air heater project Details
8Tender for refurbishment of three Rochem DT modules at NWISR platform (2025–26) Details
8Tender for Allen Bradley (Rockwell) PLC I/O modules for BLQ3 hypo-chlorinator package Details
8EOI for hiring/owning of FPSO for project Details
8Tender for EPC of lightning protection system for drilling and hydraulic workover rigs Details
8Procurement of IoT data logger for Thermofisher stack analyzers Details
8Fabrication, supply, and installation of manhole covers and nameplates for process units Details
8Supply and installation of double block and bleed (DBB) system in KRU furnace fuel gas lines Details
8Procurement of Bender make NGR monitoring relay Details
8Procurement of MS Maspero elevator spare on priority for NQL lift Details
8Hiring of turnkey contract services for ILM of HP NG 2000 rigs and NG 1500 rigs for three years Details
8Tender for relocation and commissioning of 20 kW solar power system Details
8Tender for CSR construction work for school Details
8Supply of piping material at CPF Bhaskar oil and gas field Details
8Rate contract for piping, flowlines, and mechanical works Details
8Rate contract for mechanical construction and maintenance work for Hazira field Details
8Procurement of digital EPABX system for PDH-PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of on-off valves for polypropylene project Details
8Tender for coalescer for PDH-PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of motor-operated gate valves and spares Details
8Rate contract for procurement of thio urea (TU) for one year Details
8Two-year annual maintenance contract for Yokogawa DCS systems Details
8Procurement of safety caps for self-closing valves of LPG cylinders (V2) Details
8Tender for hiring of security services Details
8Tender for engagement of agency to supply inspection personnel during boilers/HRSG shutdown Details
8Tender for internal coating of carbon steel fire water and cooling water pipelines and fittings Details
8Procurement of V-belt disc pack and taper lock Details
8Tender for supply of TSV and PSV Details
8Tender for operation, monitoring, chemical handling, cleaning, and miscellaneous jobs in CWTP Details
8Tender for supply of studs and bolts Details
8Procurement of Xtragreen HSD for fire engine and DG set Details
8Procurement of Anabond thread locker Details
8Supply of mandatory spares for group 03 Details
8Procurement of spare canopies for field instruments Details
8Procurement of spares for Levelstate make level indication system Details
8Supply of AFFF 3% concentration, UL listed and ISI marked Details
8Tender for supply, installation, and commissioning of CCTV backup storage system Details
8Procurement of chlorine dioxide precursor Details
8Procurement of 18-inch magnetic flow meter for water service Details
8Supply and installation of network infrastructure and cabling for vehicle access management system Details
8Annual rate contract for Swelore make positive displacement pumps Details
8Procurement of ethylene diamine and salicylaldehyde Details
8Tender for conceptualization, designing, fabrication, and management of thematic pavilion “India Net Zero” Details
8Tender for engineering support services for restoration of HOJ-III SCADA and LDS systems Details
8Tender for testing services for on-board/commissioned plant equipment and instruments Details
8Procurement of 3-inch ATG riser cap Details
8Supply of various equipment for QC field laboratory Details
8Tender for hiring of vehicle with driver for pipeline patrolling and general use Details
8Procurement of Mather & Platt make pump spares Details
8Procurement of pressure control valves for Vizag LPG DESP Details
8Procurement of digital signature certificates (DSC) Details
8Two-year rate contract for monitoring and maintenance of cathodic protection and associated systems Details
8Procurement of GPS-enabled PSP surveyor kits (data loggers) for pipe-to-soil potential monitoring Details

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8Banks in talks to lend $1B for Argentina gas pipeline Details
8GasBuddy reveals 2026 USA gasoline price forecast Details
8BP flags up to $5 billion in low-carbon energy impairments Details
8Essar Energy Transition posts record domestic sales at Stanlow refinery in 2025 Details
8Essar Energy Transition posts record domestic sales at Stanlow refinery in 2025 Details
8Rupee falls 6 paise to close at 90.29 against US dollar Details
8Dark fleet seeks Russian protection as US seizes oil tankers Details
8CM Naidu to inaugurate green ammonia plant in Kakinada Details
8Shell and Exxon’s UK gas asset sale to Viaro Energy collapses Details
8EIA shows crude oil inventories continue to rise Details
8Shell and Exxon cancel North Sea gas asset sale to Viaro Energy Details
8China’s imports of Venezuelan oil set to crumble Details
8Kazakhstan cut December oil output by 230 kb/d Details
8Oil prices plunge 3% as Trump plays down prospect of war with Iran Details
8PNGRB restructures gas transportation tariffs to lower CNG and PNG costs Details
8Indofast Energy to install 23 battery swapping stations at Mumbai Metro Aqua Line 3 Details
8From access to adoption: how Ujjwala is changing India’s cooking habits Details
8India: diversifying LPG supply base and pricing implications Details
8Explained how political upheaval in Venezuela could impact India’s crude oil strategy Details
8Venezuela turmoil unlikely to materially impact India’s crude oil imports Details
8Russia-India oil trade continues despite sanctions, highlighting economic punishment limitations Details
8India LPG use soars: Ujjwala refills drive record consumption Details
8Indian Oil buys 2 million barrels of Ecuadorean oil via tender, sources say Details
8Indian Oil–BPCL JV makes twin oil discoveries in Abu Dhabi’s onshore block 1 Details
8Indian Oil targets 20–30% revenue from non-fuel business by 2030: AS Sahney, chairman Details
8India has achieved milestone in energy self-sufficiency with crude oil discovery in Abu Dhabi, says petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri Details
8MRPL Q3 and 9M FY 2025–26 results: net profit rises to Rs.1,445 crore in Q3 Details
8GAIL wins SKOCH ESG award 2025 for business agility and corporate performance Details
8WABAG secures large order from BPCL’s Bina refinery for industrial water treatment facilities Details
8CII urges government to issue directives and incentives to fuel India’s green hydrogen aspirations Details
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Announcements

Jan 15: New Page 1 8WABAG bags major BPCL contract for industrial water treatment facilities [WABAG] Details
8Intimation of oil discovery in onshore Block 1 Abu Dhabi  [BPCL] Details
8Essar energy transition delivers record sales  [Essar] Details
8Gas market insights CY 2025 [IGX] Details
8Extension of closing date for submission of comments on draft PNGRB consumer protection regulations 2025  [PNGRB] Details
8Trigeneration: a potential game changer for India  [PNGRB] Details
8Financial results for the quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2025 [MRPL] Details
8Approval of unaudited financial results for Q3 and nine months ended 31 December 2025 [ MRPL] Details
8Prior intimation of third meeting of the committee of creditors  [Aban] Details
8Notice of board meeting for consideration of unaudited financial results  [HPCL] Details
8Press release on oil discoveries in onshore Block 1 Abu Dhabi [IOCL] Details
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Energy storage: End of the road for gas-based power?

Jan 14: 8A governemnt report puts energy storage squarely into roles that have traditionally protected gas-based generation: peak-hour scarcity pricing and flexibility services.
8The document’s own language ties storage to time-shift (arbitrage), peak shaving, and even peak power for system adequacy—with clear implications for gas plant utilisation and revenue stacking. Details

Green ammonia: Export dreams meet grid math in government modelling

Jan 14: A government document quietly undercut the idea of green ammonia as an export-first fuel. Without sustained surplus electricity, electrolysis, air separation and synthesis together push utilisation — and costs — sharply against the system.
8Far from bypassing grid constraints, the document models green ammonia as one of the most power-intensive fuel pathways.
8Electrolysis dominates energy input, air separation adds load, and synthesis compounds losses — binding ammonia economics tightly to surplus power availability.
8So those who are thinking of exporting may have to think again. Details

Household gas gets relief; industry absorbs the distance penalty

Jan 14: While PNGRB’s unified tariff sharply reduces transportation charges for CNG and domestic PNG, the reform implicitly reallocates long-haul pipeline costs to non-priority consumers.
8The costs do not disappear; they are redistributed across the gas grid, implicitly loading industrial and bulk consumers while protecting CGD expansion in far-flung regions.
8The result is a cleaner fuel push that rests on internal cross-subsidisation rather than lower system costs. Details

Netzsch undercuts Boerger, Vogelsang by 25–29% on rotary lobe pump package

Jan 14: 8The tender’s OEM/SPRV and field-proven gating narrows the pool, but the “original due date counts even after extensions” clause quietly hardens competition control.
8The real question now is whether the low bid is true efficiency—or scope interpretation that will surface only after award.
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PBFS dryer and purification study tender is cancelled

Jan 14: 8This exposes single-tender fragility in a process-critical conditioning package.
8The next re-issue, if any, will reveal whether the owner is correcting governance optics or shifting to a bundled, vendor-led technical solution.
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Jan 14: 1) ONGC tightens multi-year oil well cement supply with first-pass testing economics and lot-cancellation teeth
8ONGC’s 3-year oil well cement buy is structured less like a commodity tender and more like a repeatable lab-gated supply system where “date of offering” can decide LD outcomes.
8The document quietly prices non-conformance through billable inspection days and keeps a second acceptance trapdoor open via destination sampling that becomes final and binding.
8The real contest will be which manufacturers can hold batch discipline across dozens of lots without triggering re-offers that convert quality variance into cashflow drag.
 
2) ONGC moves Dahej fire water lines pre-bid online with corrigendum
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum does not rewrite scope, but it rewires bidder access in a tender where pre-bid is the only real negotiation window.
 
3) ONGC extends Konaban GCS LP separation and compression hire
8Behind that calendar change is a technically dense package where battery limits, metering standards, and EPC-like obligations can quietly decide who can even bid credibly.
 
4) Owner extends RE and CBG technical consultant empanelment EOI submission deadline
8The scope is not generic PMC language but a data-heavy diligence posture that treats scada, yield benchmarking, and OEM bankability as screening-grade capability.
8What the extension is really buying — and which bidder archetypes it pulls into the funnel — becomes the sharper competitive story.
 
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Panna and Tapti offshore O&M award

Jan 16: 8The spread hints at a risk-pricing split
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Jan 16: 1) ONGC tightens reliability economics for 10k Production Testing hire with residual-life gate and zero-rate breakdown math
8ONGC’s Rajahmundry 10k PTS tender is written like a reliability contract disguised as an equipment hire, with uptime monetised in both payment eligibility and penalties.
8The technical spec stack pushes bidders toward proppant-resilient flowback capability and metered test deliverables rather than “separator on wheels” compliance.
8The real story sits in how mobilisation is defined and how downtime is converted into deductions, reshaping who can bid competitively.
 
2) Sunpetro’s Gujarat workover rig tender hardwires no-minimum-callouts, score-linked penalties, and 75-ton class equipment bars
8Sunpetro is not just hiring a 50T workover rig; it is quietly re-writing utilization and performance risk into the commercial architecture.
8The BOQ structure forces bidders to bet on callout frequency and movement intensity across multiple Gujarat sites, while the contract keeps strong remedies in reserve.
8The most consequential lever sits in a post-award performance scorecard that can cut payments, but whose final mapping logic is still left to be negotiated.
 
3) ONGC’s Dehradun civil repair rate-contract award shows a 9–33% ladder
8ONGC’s Dehradun civil O&M award stack reveals a tight mid-pack but a sharply higher outlier that stretches the pricing ladder.
8The tender’s own playbook pushes L2/L3 toward L1 economics, raising questions on who can actually deliver service-level responsiveness without cutting corners.
8The real story is what this spread says about risk pricing, capacity confidence, and the next township maintenance bid cycle.
 
4) Ellison oilfield services undercuts the field for KH#4 Khubal EWTF award
8ONGC Tripura asset’s KH#4 Khubal EWTF award lands with a price ladder that looks less like competition and more like two different interpretations of the same risk.
8The L1 quote sits far below both the GeM estimate and the next bidder, in a package where PNGRB-linked dehydration outcomes and hazardous-area compliance are non-negotiable.
8What matters now is whether the contract’s option-clause flexibility and subcontracting constraints amplify execution risk or simply punish inefficient bidders.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Jan 16: 1) Two bidders knocked out as ONGC tightens paperwork gates around Ahmedabad asset scraping winch hiring
8This scraping winch tender shows a familiar field-services story: the risk sits where the stuck wire does.
8Two bidders are already out, but the document pack points to a sharper compliance filter than most vendors price for.
8The real contest is whether procedural “non-payable” traps and POA discipline thin the field before performance even starts.
 
2) Pre-bid reset and security-deposit easing tighten bidder discipline in ONGC’s 250 mw captive ists-connected wind LSTK tender
8ONGC’s corrigendum does not loosen project risk; it reallocates it with sharper governance levers.
8The headline changes look procedural, but the hidden impact is in how land and wind-data flexibility is permitted only under owner-controlled validation and benefit capture.
8Bidder strategies will hinge less on pricing creativity and more on document provability and execution architecture.
 
3) ONGC extends mumbai high MOPU EOI deadline to 30 January 2026
8ONGC’s mumbai high MOPU push is now running on a revised clock, with the EOI deadline extended to 30 January 2026 against an originally stated 09 January close.
8The timing creates a sequencing puzzle because ONGC’s capability-presentation meeting is scheduled for 22–23 January, potentially before the new close unless reworked.
8Behind the date change sits a high-bar offshore package—90–100 bar compression, bridge-linked tie-in scope, and “no dry dock due”—that could be compressing the eligible vendor pool.
 
4) ONGC’s directional drilling services tender on GeM is extended to 30 January 2026, keeping high-spec MWD-SDMM compliance in play
8ONGC has pushed its directional drilling services bid deadline out to 30 January 2026 after a visible extension trail.
8Beneath the calendar move sits a tender that hard-wires OEM refurbishment proof, standby tooling redundancy, and penalty-backed real-time data delivery.
8The extension gives bidders more time, but it also exposes where cost, logistics, and compliance risk are clustering in this package.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards

Jan 16: 1) BPREP pump package hardens NPSH and PPP-MII enforcement, squeezing flexibility in API 610 compliance
8BPCL and EIL have boxed bidders into a tight API 610 corner for BPREP’s special purpose process pumps, with NPSH, impeller diameter, and EOC margin acting as a three-way choke point. Pre-bid traffic shows vendors trying to swap OH2 for BB2 and relax hydraulic limits, but the owner response stays largely uncompromising. A new PPP-MII execution clause turns local content into a cashflow lever, reshaping who can bid aggressively without liquidity strain.
 
2) IGGL awards DDPL feeder lines and Baihata compressor-despatch EIA package
8L2 is 85.2% above L1, hinting at either sharp undercutting or fundamentally different effort assumptions.
 
3) MRPL bio-ATF pump award
8Find out who won the deal
 
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Technical bid opens with three compressor OEMs in BPCL’s Bina BPREP PIAS package

Jan 16: 8The real filter is not EMD or headline eligibility, but the NDA-gated access and the compliance burden baked into deviation formats, spares schedules and ITP discipline. What gets rejected or loaded in technical evaluation will decide how many of these three actually reach the priced-bid stage.
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PNGRB's LPG pipeline contracting briefs

Jan 16: 1) Paradip–Raipur LPG pipeline: Potential bidders raise a loud protest
8Paradip is a “source” on paper, but the refinery and import terminal are flagged as captive. IOCL warns that Paradip refinery and Paradip import terminal cannot be used as a source by non-IOCL bidders. That creates an immediate asymmetry in how bidders can underwrite supply. Also, spur lines move from “obligation” to “bidder choice,” blurring what the corridor is actually authorizing
 
2) PNGRB’s Jhansi–Sitarganj LPG pipeline bid rewrites origin and length, then pushes key data risk back onto bidders
8The regulator has turned a “Gwalior–Sitarganj” concept into a Jhansi-origin trunk-and-spur system and extended the bid calendar into late January 2026. But when bidders asked for coordinates, source parameters and RoU specifics, the clarifications largely redirected them to “bid terms” and self-diligence. The real fight will be over who can privately de-risk interfaces and throughput economics before committing to a 605 km corridor.
 
3) PNGRB’s Ennore–Puducherry LPG pipeline bid saw a 160 km to 200 km reset before cancellation
8This leaves the real question: was the corridor definition too unstable to award cleanly?
 
4) PNGRB’s Ennore–Gummidipoondi LPG pipeline authorisation bid is cancelled
8This leaves bidders with sunk compliance prep and locked-up securities
8The unresolved question is whether this is a corridor rethink or a process reset that will reappear with tougher or softer entry bars.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Jan 16: 1) Composite works for a PP plant: An update
8This tender pack is less about what gets built and more about how every weld, pour, and loop will be policed on paper and in the field. The drawing workflow forces engineering depth before fabrication momentum. The hidden competition is documentation stamina: hold points, punch lists, PMI, calibration trails, and permit-to-work discipline decide who survives execution.
 
2) BPREPP pressure vessel RFQ tightens the gate with zero deviation bidding and NDa-first access
8The package looks routine until you track how it removes the oxygen from the clarification cycle. The tender pairs zero deviation evaluation with an NDA regime that can control who even gets to see the technical bundle in time. The real competition may hinge less on shop capability and more on compliance throughput and confidentiality governance.
 
3) EIL extends NRL’s PPU SPP pump bid clock as “revised PDS” technical amendments tighten API 610 compliance
8EIL’s PPU pump package looks like a standard API 610-driven procurement, but bidder questions show the hydraulic basis is still being stabilised through “revised PDS” amendments. At the same time, “zero deviation” is being enforced hard, with operating-window arguments rejected as non-acceptable deviations.
 
4) IOCL’s Paradip refinery mechanical shutdown services bid stretches through five extensions
8But without relaxing the original PQC anchor
 
5) MRPL pushes co-processing/AFR solid waste package to 19 Jan close
8This is while keeping two-contractor 60:40 split pressure intact
 
6) NRL extends bid timeline for ABEPL bioethanol EU REACH registration
8This is as bidders flag GeM onboarding and EU-entity frictions.
8What’s left unsaid is whether the 3-month REACH completion expectation is realistically priced when MSDS creation and data defensibility sit upfront. Only two prospective bidders are recorded as attending the pre-bid meeting.
 
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Air Separation Unit BOO tender: An Update

Jan 16: 8The 56-day push suggests bidders needed more runway to close bankability, OEM alignment, and interface clarity without any term relief. The unanswered question is whether the underlying issues were technical, commercial, or both.
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Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Jan 16: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
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BPCL leads nationwide push to expand PNG and CNG adoption

Jan 16: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Hiring of 32 nos. of LCV for carrying of CNG mobile cascade from mother station to daughter / daughter booster stations on annual rate contract basis for a period of 5 years for CGD project Details
8Supply of non-sparking tools and hammers for Group-B Details
8Providing revenue assistance services (other than retired land acquisition staff) and other associated service Details
8Comprehensive AMC of UPS installed Details
8Procurement of portable mass flow meter kit Details
8Purchase of 75 kVA servo system Details
8Last mile connectivity (LMC) work Details
8Appointment of agency for M&I with decontamination of HP separator 05VV03 vessel in OHCU unit Details
8Hiring of consultants for topographical & soil investigation surveys and permanent benchmark construction Details
8Supply, retrofitting and installation of 1000 A ACB Details
8Hot repair of 5kg, 35kg, and 47kg cylinders Details
8Procurement of spares for transmitters Details
8Supply of nylon threads, lot & hippo seals, caps and O-rings at LPG terminal Details
8Procurement of pigtails for fiber optic cable connections Details
8Annual maintenance contract (AMC) for chiller machine Details
8Procurement of tamper-evident seals for LPG cylinders Details
8Procurement of centrifugal pump set Details
8Procurement of Coperion make spares Details
8Procurement of gearbox spares Details
8Hiring of event management agency for Saksham 2025–26 events Details
8Procurement of carbon steel pressure vessel Details
8Mechanical works for execution of bio-ATF project Details
8Composite works at PPU offsite area for polypropylene project Details
8Annual rate contract for procurement of pulleys for CNG compressor packages Details
8Repair and servicing of IPC make high pressure (HP) hot water cleaning machine Details
8Constructing racks for storage using NDT rejected tubings Details
8Procurement of Eagle make seal spares Details
8Procurement of pilot shaft for impregnator screw Details
8Procurement of deluge valves Details
8Procurement and installation of online partial discharge monitoring system Details
8Procurement of density cum viscosity meter Details
8Miscellaneous area cleaning, ground preparation, and related works Details
8Procurement of compressor spares Details
8Procurement of actuator gearbox spares for coker valves in delayed coker unit Details
8Procurement of airtight electrochemical cell with accessories Details
8Providing services for hiring of PIDS operators at Thamna PS & Vadinar DT Details
8Procurement of FRP manhole cover with frame for underground storage tanks Details
8Annual maintenance contract for Emerson DCS system for 3 years Details
8Procurement of AFFF fire fighting foam concentrate Details
8Dismantling of old naphtha tanks and unused pipeline assets Details
8Procurement of DCU bridge crane spares on OEM basis Details
8Procurement of closed sampling system Details
8Annual maintenance contract for diesel engines of fire water pumps Details
8Procurement of fuel gas compressor oil top-up pump Details
8Statutory safety audit Details
8Supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of dual fuel kit for DG sets Details
8Supply of valves Details
8Supply, installation, and commissioning of servo level gauge Details
8Supply of sand filter, carbon filter, and associated accessories Details
8Procurement of industrial tray dryer Details
8Supply of LED lights for SV/RT/IPS stations Details
8Hiring of support and peripheral manpower Details
8Supply of class-A power quality meter with accessories Details
8Supply of potable water (UV & RO treated) through tankers Details
8Hiring of catering services for canteen Details

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8EIA: Henry Hub natural gas spot prices to fall in 2026 before rising in 2028 Details
8When oil falls but Exxon and Chevron don’t Details
8Russia’s oil revenue slump hits budget where it hurts Details
8Lake Charles cancellation shifts tide in US LNG wave Details
8MOL Global Ship Management deploys predictive engine maintenance for 12 LNG carriers Details
8Wärtsilä lines up decade-long deal for 12 LNG vessels with MOL Details
8Larsen & Toubro wins large order from Petronet LNG for storage tank project at Dahej complex Details
8Global clean fuel investment worth $100-bn annually needed by 2030: WEF Details
8NTPC Green Energy to form 50:50 JV with GAIL for setting up renewable energy projects Details
8Oil settles down 4% as Trump comments ease Iranian supply concerns Details
8Budget 2026: Oil industry seeks abolition or review of OID cess on pre-NELP and nomination blocks Details
8Russia bets big on non-energy JVs with India Details
8‘Oil is everything for the Iranian economy — it fuels power, protests and the paradoxes of Iran’ Details
8Abolish OID cess on pre-NELP, nomination blocks: Oil industry's Budget wishlist Details
8Iran tensions and Trump’s threats trigger fresh volatility in global oil markets Details
8India’s Russia oil trade may dip again, stranding cargoes at sea Details
8BP flags up to $5 billion in low-carbon energy impairments Details
8Woodside to supply LNG to JERA during Japan's winter peak Details
8LNG conversion contract signed by Drydocks World Details
8Can Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, set oil prices on fire? Details
8IndianOil chairman meets British Columbia premier to deepen India–Canada energy ties Details
8BPCL leads nationwide push to expand PNG and CNG adoption Details
8OMCs likely to register strong Q3FY26 on higher refining margins Details
8India fuel rates today: Petrol, Diesel prices show minor fluctuations Details
8India cuts Russian oil imports and seeks new suppliers - Bloomberg Details
8India has found an alternative to Russian oil: imports of raw materials from Russia are decreasing Details
8India maintains diversified oil procurement strategy across traditional and new suppliers Details
8India’s oil economy defies geopolitical shocks as sanctions deepen discounts and keep prices in check: Report Details
8How every $1 rise in crude oil prices boosts ONGC and Oil India revenues? Details
8OPEC regains share in India as Russian oil imports slump in December Details
8NTPC Green Energy and GAIL sign agreement to launch renewable energy JV Details
8Fluid Quip Technologies expands deployment of Low Energy Distillation™ technology at United Ethanol Details
8Nordsol chosen to power Norway’s new bioLNG plant Details
8India's green hydrogen sector pushes for policy shift in Budget 2026 Details
8India's chemical market pegged at $300 billion by 2030: BCG report Details
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Announcements

Jan 16: New Page 1 8Woodside executes five-year winter LNG supply agreement with JERA commencing 2027 [Woodside] Details
8PNGRB monthly bulletin for November 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Clarifications on petroleum and LPG pipeline from Jhansi to Sitarganj [PNGRB] Details
8Additional clarifications on petroleum and LPG pipeline from Paradip (Odisha) to Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [PNGRB] Details
8Extension of timeline for submission of views/comments on PNGRB Access Code Regulations, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Application by Asian Paints (Polymers) Private Limited for authorization to lay, build and operate a dedicated gaseous ethylene pipeline under PNGRB regulations [PNGRB] Details
8Intimation of board meeting for approval of unaudited financial results and trading window closure [JD] Details
8Assignment of “Excellent” ESG rating to the company [Adani Port] Details
8Intimation of schedule of investor/analyst call for Q3 and nine months ended December 31, 2025 financial results [ATGL] Details
8Intimation of board meeting to consider unaudited financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 [Selan] Details
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Three-way race opens for ONGC’s ADR-I & NLM-14 package

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s international competitive bid for additional development of these fields has drawn tbidders.
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Record trades put IGX on the map — but not yet on a curve

Jan 15: Record trading of 11.2 mmbtu and record monthly volume of in April 2025 in IGX does mean a stable forward curve yet
8The volatility in delivery-day volumes (ranging from ~5 to over 17 MMSCMD) suggests that seasonal and event-driven procurement still dominates, rather than continuous baseload optimisation through the exchange. Details

The Mori-5 blow out: ONGC has no time to pause

Jan 15: 8In the wake of the blowout of of the Mori-5 well was run privately under a Production Enhancement Contract, the market expected some recalibration of the programme by ONGC.
8But there is likely to be no pause by the public sector E&P major
8In fact, ONGC plans to give out more wells under the same PEC regime. Details

From open bidding to restricted access: ONGC narrows the vendor universe

Jan 15: The move to shortlist vendors for limited tenders marks a structural tightening of ONGC’s procurement philosophy, privileging predictability and control over broader competition in high-impact services.
8Find out the list of these items
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Who is going to be the next boss of this PSU refinery?

Jan 15: 8Find out what is going on at the helm of this public sector refiner
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The DGH: Government is for more control than autonomy

Jan 15: 8Find out why this is so
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Crude price becomes HR policy in this PSU

Jan 15: 8This is an unusual internal decision
 8The move marks a sharp departure from traditional PSU compensation logic tied to performance or profitability.
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Jan 15: 1) ONGC Rajahmundry’s ILM tender hardens bid compliance and compresses mobilisation timelines
8ONGC’s Rajahmundry ILM package is being framed less as a routine service hire and more as a compliance-stress test for rig-ready vendors.
8The tender’s schedule architecture and 45-day mobilisation ceiling quietly reshuffle who can credibly bid across HP/NG-2000 versus NG-1500 classes.
 
2) Cygnus edges Silver Touch by 0.1% in ONGC’s WON basin IT resources megabundle award
8The award spread is razor-thin, hinting that bidders converged on a similar risk view despite the heavy OEM-control and acceptance regime.
8The real story sits in what the documents force the winner to absorb—completeness risk, security posture, and the operational cutover burden.
 
3) Seven qualify as ONGC’s GST compliance platform
8ONGC’s Noida shared finance tender is shaping into a tool-first GST control-room procurement, not a routine compliance retainer.
8Ten bidders entered, but only seven cleared technical qualification—leaving a narrowed field where mobilisation speed and SAP-linked reconciliation credibility will matter as much as brand weight.
8The missing piece is what participating bidders tried to renegotiate after submission, and whether ONGC’s responses shifted risk boundaries or simply reinforced standard PSU discipline.
 
4) ONGC’s industrial gases supply tender for rigs E-2000-8 and E-2000-6 is extended
8The industrial gases supply requirement supports two active drilling rigs across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
8The tender’s acceptance mechanics are unusually unforgiving for a routine supply package, with pressure-linked pro-rata payments and a hard 48-hour fulfilment expectation baked into operations.
8The extension shifts bidder strategy, but the document set provided still leaves the underlying “why now” unanswered.
 
5) Ovlsc’s CPO-05 workover rig tender closing pushed to 19 January 2026 — ongc videsh/cpo-05 workover rig
8ONGC videsh’s Colombia arm has moved the CPO-05 workover rig bid deadline, buying the market extra days to assemble a compliance-heavy two-bid submission.
8The underlying tender structure tightly constrains pricing behaviour through explicit standby/non-operating caps and a quote-all-items rejection trigger.
8What the promoter has not yet put beyond doubt in the shared pack is the exact corrigendum wording that reconciles the new timeline with the original 14 January 2026 close.
 
6) ONGC’s offshore 3d broadband seismic package gets a second date push
8The tender architecture remains uncompromising: integrated acquisition plus processing, strict deviation discipline, and a “no consortium” market filter.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Jan 15: 1) Refiner tightens open access power buying IEX trader-only, 5 MW track record gate
8The eligibility filter is not symbolic: Category-I cERC licensing, IEX membership, and a quantified 5 mw execution benchmark compress the bidder universe before pricing even begins. The most consequential lever sits in the structure, not the BoQ: a client-controlled extension at the same rates quietly reshapes how traders price risk and desk coverage
 
2) Ambient air heater tender makes electrical contractors own PMCC integration risk
8The package quietly shifts the hardest work into brownfield integration—breaker changes, feeder interfaces, and protection coordination inside the existing lt/pmcc ecosystem. The tender bundle also carries date and timing contradictions that can turn compliance into a bidder-selection lever unless corrected in writing.
 
3) FRE revamp BDEP study bid sees deadline pushed twice
8This is as scope deepens into existing equipment validation. The study is less like a concept study and more like a brownfield validation package once existing exchangers and utility updates enter the deliverable frame.
 
4) IOCL extends ZWTL empanelment
8Find out what is going on
 
5) Petronet LNG’s Dahej water block package locks in fixed-price risk as EIL rejects schedule relief and escalation
8Petronet LNG’s Dahej water block package is pushing bidders into detailed-engineering liability for battery limit pressures, pump head, and pipe class choices. EIL’s replies show a consistent “follow tender” posture even where bidders flag mismatches and downstream redesign impacts. The bigger story is how commercial rigidity and ground-risk disclaimers are being stacked on top of technical ambiguity.
 
6) IOCL keeps tight PQCs as MSW-based CBG feasibility bid timeline extended
8Bidder pleas to relax PQCs, timelines, and cashflow milestones are repeatedly shut down.
 
7) GAIL’s Karaikal pipeline O&M support ARC vanishes from site after publication
8The tender’s reported cancellation now leaves the market reading signals from what was published, not from what was awarded.
 
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ONGC Columbia: The company is still actively tendering away

Jan 15: 8What is going on
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Batch transport of green ammonia with LPG through a pipeline: Is it feasible?

Jan 15: 8The consultancy tender turns a pipeline study into a full supply-chain proof exercise, from producer injection to consumer receipt, with compliance sign-off embedded in the scope.
8The unusual catch is that bidders must build the demand evidence themselves through EOIs, even as critical “as-built” baselines are deferred until after award.
8What looks like a feasibility brief is quietly a template for how legacy LPG corridors could be repurposed into green-molecule logistics without committing to capex too early.
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ONGC reservoir field services call-out: Update

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s latest corrigendum does not rewrite the downhole scope, but it rewires how bidders survive evaluation and fund the risk.
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This toluene extraction unit tender tightens licensor liability while pulling battery-limit operability into the BDEP contract

Jan 15: 8It is structured less like a license purchase and more like an operability warranty, with early PGTR timing and explicit recovery expectations.
8The battery-limit language quietly drags solvent systems, effluent interfaces, and safety philosophy into the licensor’s accountability envelope.
8The real story is how the liability cap and “no extra payment” engineering posture could reshape who bids and how aggressively they qualify performance.
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ONGC’s ADR-I and NLM-14 EPC clarifications shut down bidder attempts to reprice liability, tax and offshore weather risk

Jan 15: 8Participating bidders tried to reopen the usual offshore EPC pressure points—arbitration seat, liability cap, payment speed, insurance placement, and “export” tax framing.
8ONGC’s replies repeatedly force bidders back into standardised tender terms, turning pre-bid into a compliance gate more than a negotiation forum.
8The real story is which risks ONGC refused to dilute—and which technical clarifications quietly change how the pipelines and metering package must be built.
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Downstream contracting briefs: Award

Jan 15: IndianOil picks a transaction advisor for vessel acquisition
8IndianOil’s vessel acquisition advisory award is less about powerpoint structuring and more about controlling post-close cashflows and governance risk. The corrigendum quietly rewrites diligence expectations and forces transfer pricing and takeover planning into the advisory core. The bid spread between L1 and the rest tells its own story about how aggressively firms priced this specialised, time-bound mandate.
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ONGC’s 20 kw solar relocation at new Nandasan GGS hardens scope and pricing risk onto the contractor

Jan 15: 8ONGC’s Mehsana asset is treating a 2 x 10 kw solar relocation like a compliance-heavy electrical works package, not a simple shift-and-hook-up job.
8Internal inconsistencies around bid validity and integrity-pact language create procedural risk that can quietly decide responsiveness outcomes before pricing is even compared.
8The real margin tension sits in the “good engineering practice” obligation that can expand scope on site without extra cost or time.
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BPCL advances in unconventional oil with Abu Dhabi discovery

Jan 15: 8Bharat PetroResources Limited, the exploration arm of BPCL, has made a breakthrough with the discovery of unconventional oil in Abu Dhabi's Onshore Block 1
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Jan 15: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Jan 15: 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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8Crude
8Chemicals
8Fertilizers
8LPG
8Ammonia
8Coal & Coke
8All tankers
8Bulk and Dry cargo
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Unified tariff protects households: Gas allocation protects favourites - and power markets absorb the distortion

Jan 15: 8PNGRB’s unified tariff makes the protection hierarchy explicit: CNG and PNG-D pay Zone-1 even beyond 300 km, while industry, fertiliser and power remain exposed.
 8In this state's generation data, a similar hierarchy is visible: One unit is locked into imported RLNG economics (at Rs 44.2/SCM), while another remains largely domestic (at Rs 26.5/SCM). The result is not “cheaper gas” or “cheaper transport”.
8It is cost pooling and ring-fencing, with non-protected segments becoming the balancing item.
8Households are insulated by design. Certain generators are protected by allocation. Power markets absorb the distortion — quietly, efficiently, and without a budget line. Details

Coimbatore District City Gas Distribution Project

Jan 15: 8Project Name: Coimbatore District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

India has achieved milestone in energy self-sufficiency with crude oil discovery in Abu Dhabi, says petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Jan 15: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Procurement of rated blinds for routine maintenance at process plants Details
8Tender for simulator-based defensive driving training for TT drivers Details
8Tender for procurement of gelling agent Details
8Procurement of octane booster additive Details
8Supply and fixing of vinyl stickering, SOP boards, banners, and iron standees Details
8Three-year AMC of Shinkhawa vibration monitoring system for MMBPL and MUPL Details
8Procurement of Instonnic glass tube rotameter spares for HCU, MSB, and DCU Details
8Procurement of spare vibration probes for LP air compressor Details
8Tender for procurement of soft soap Details
8Tender for operation of in-house statutory testing and painting services of LPG cylinders Details
8Tender for geotechnical investigation and topographical survey for master plan and DPR Details
8Tender for electrical and associated works for ambient air heater project Details
8Tender for refurbishment of three Rochem DT modules at NWISR platform (2025–26) Details
8Tender for Allen Bradley (Rockwell) PLC I/O modules for BLQ3 hypo-chlorinator package Details
8EOI for hiring/owning of FPSO for project Details
8Tender for EPC of lightning protection system for drilling and hydraulic workover rigs Details
8Procurement of IoT data logger for Thermofisher stack analyzers Details
8Fabrication, supply, and installation of manhole covers and nameplates for process units Details
8Supply and installation of double block and bleed (DBB) system in KRU furnace fuel gas lines Details
8Procurement of Bender make NGR monitoring relay Details
8Procurement of MS Maspero elevator spare on priority for NQL lift Details
8Hiring of turnkey contract services for ILM of HP NG 2000 rigs and NG 1500 rigs for three years Details
8Tender for relocation and commissioning of 20 kW solar power system Details
8Tender for CSR construction work for school Details
8Supply of piping material at CPF Bhaskar oil and gas field Details
8Rate contract for piping, flowlines, and mechanical works Details
8Rate contract for mechanical construction and maintenance work for Hazira field Details
8Procurement of digital EPABX system for PDH-PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of on-off valves for polypropylene project Details
8Tender for coalescer for PDH-PP plant with ethane and propane handling facilities Details
8Procurement of motor-operated gate valves and spares Details
8Rate contract for procurement of thio urea (TU) for one year Details
8Two-year annual maintenance contract for Yokogawa DCS systems Details
8Procurement of safety caps for self-closing valves of LPG cylinders (V2) Details
8Tender for hiring of security services Details
8Tender for engagement of agency to supply inspection personnel during boilers/HRSG shutdown Details
8Tender for internal coating of carbon steel fire water and cooling water pipelines and fittings Details
8Procurement of V-belt disc pack and taper lock Details
8Tender for supply of TSV and PSV Details
8Tender for operation, monitoring, chemical handling, cleaning, and miscellaneous jobs in CWTP Details
8Tender for supply of studs and bolts Details
8Procurement of Xtragreen HSD for fire engine and DG set Details
8Procurement of Anabond thread locker Details
8Supply of mandatory spares for group 03 Details
8Procurement of spare canopies for field instruments Details
8Procurement of spares for Levelstate make level indication system Details
8Supply of AFFF 3% concentration, UL listed and ISI marked Details
8Tender for supply, installation, and commissioning of CCTV backup storage system Details
8Procurement of chlorine dioxide precursor Details
8Procurement of 18-inch magnetic flow meter for water service Details
8Supply and installation of network infrastructure and cabling for vehicle access management system Details
8Annual rate contract for Swelore make positive displacement pumps Details
8Procurement of ethylene diamine and salicylaldehyde Details
8Tender for conceptualization, designing, fabrication, and management of thematic pavilion “India Net Zero” Details
8Tender for engineering support services for restoration of HOJ-III SCADA and LDS systems Details
8Tender for testing services for on-board/commissioned plant equipment and instruments Details
8Procurement of 3-inch ATG riser cap Details
8Supply of various equipment for QC field laboratory Details
8Tender for hiring of vehicle with driver for pipeline patrolling and general use Details
8Procurement of Mather & Platt make pump spares Details
8Procurement of pressure control valves for Vizag LPG DESP Details
8Procurement of digital signature certificates (DSC) Details
8Two-year rate contract for monitoring and maintenance of cathodic protection and associated systems Details
8Procurement of GPS-enabled PSP surveyor kits (data loggers) for pipe-to-soil potential monitoring Details

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8Banks in talks to lend $1B for Argentina gas pipeline Details
8GasBuddy reveals 2026 USA gasoline price forecast Details
8BP flags up to $5 billion in low-carbon energy impairments Details
8Essar Energy Transition posts record domestic sales at Stanlow refinery in 2025 Details
8Essar Energy Transition posts record domestic sales at Stanlow refinery in 2025 Details
8Rupee falls 6 paise to close at 90.29 against US dollar Details
8Dark fleet seeks Russian protection as US seizes oil tankers Details
8CM Naidu to inaugurate green ammonia plant in Kakinada Details
8Shell and Exxon’s UK gas asset sale to Viaro Energy collapses Details
8EIA shows crude oil inventories continue to rise Details
8Shell and Exxon cancel North Sea gas asset sale to Viaro Energy Details
8China’s imports of Venezuelan oil set to crumble Details
8Kazakhstan cut December oil output by 230 kb/d Details
8Oil prices plunge 3% as Trump plays down prospect of war with Iran Details
8PNGRB restructures gas transportation tariffs to lower CNG and PNG costs Details
8Indofast Energy to install 23 battery swapping stations at Mumbai Metro Aqua Line 3 Details
8From access to adoption: how Ujjwala is changing India’s cooking habits Details
8India: diversifying LPG supply base and pricing implications Details
8Explained how political upheaval in Venezuela could impact India’s crude oil strategy Details
8Venezuela turmoil unlikely to materially impact India’s crude oil imports Details
8Russia-India oil trade continues despite sanctions, highlighting economic punishment limitations Details
8India LPG use soars: Ujjwala refills drive record consumption Details
8Indian Oil buys 2 million barrels of Ecuadorean oil via tender, sources say Details
8Indian Oil–BPCL JV makes twin oil discoveries in Abu Dhabi’s onshore block 1 Details
8Indian Oil targets 20–30% revenue from non-fuel business by 2030: AS Sahney, chairman Details
8India has achieved milestone in energy self-sufficiency with crude oil discovery in Abu Dhabi, says petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri Details
8MRPL Q3 and 9M FY 2025–26 results: net profit rises to Rs.1,445 crore in Q3 Details
8GAIL wins SKOCH ESG award 2025 for business agility and corporate performance Details
8WABAG secures large order from BPCL’s Bina refinery for industrial water treatment facilities Details
8CII urges government to issue directives and incentives to fuel India’s green hydrogen aspirations Details
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Announcements

Jan 15: New Page 1 8WABAG bags major BPCL contract for industrial water treatment facilities [WABAG] Details
8Intimation of oil discovery in onshore Block 1 Abu Dhabi  [BPCL] Details
8Essar energy transition delivers record sales  [Essar] Details
8Gas market insights CY 2025 [IGX] Details
8Extension of closing date for submission of comments on draft PNGRB consumer protection regulations 2025  [PNGRB] Details
8Trigeneration: a potential game changer for India  [PNGRB] Details
8Financial results for the quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2025 [MRPL] Details
8Approval of unaudited financial results for Q3 and nine months ended 31 December 2025 [ MRPL] Details
8Prior intimation of third meeting of the committee of creditors  [Aban] Details
8Notice of board meeting for consideration of unaudited financial results  [HPCL] Details
8Press release on oil discoveries in onshore Block 1 Abu Dhabi [IOCL] Details
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Energy storage: End of the road for gas-based power?

Jan 14: 8A governemnt report puts energy storage squarely into roles that have traditionally protected gas-based generation: peak-hour scarcity pricing and flexibility services.
8The document’s own language ties storage to time-shift (arbitrage), peak shaving, and even peak power for system adequacy—with clear implications for gas plant utilisation and revenue stacking. Details

Green ammonia: Export dreams meet grid math in government modelling

Jan 14: A government document quietly undercut the idea of green ammonia as an export-first fuel. Without sustained surplus electricity, electrolysis, air separation and synthesis together push utilisation — and costs — sharply against the system.
8Far from bypassing grid constraints, the document models green ammonia as one of the most power-intensive fuel pathways.
8Electrolysis dominates energy input, air separation adds load, and synthesis compounds losses — binding ammonia economics tightly to surplus power availability.
8So those who are thinking of exporting may have to think again. Details

Household gas gets relief; industry absorbs the distance penalty

Jan 14: While PNGRB’s unified tariff sharply reduces transportation charges for CNG and domestic PNG, the reform implicitly reallocates long-haul pipeline costs to non-priority consumers.
8The costs do not disappear; they are redistributed across the gas grid, implicitly loading industrial and bulk consumers while protecting CGD expansion in far-flung regions.
8The result is a cleaner fuel push that rests on internal cross-subsidisation rather than lower system costs. Details

Netzsch undercuts Boerger, Vogelsang by 25–29% on rotary lobe pump package

Jan 14: 8The tender’s OEM/SPRV and field-proven gating narrows the pool, but the “original due date counts even after extensions” clause quietly hardens competition control.
8The real question now is whether the low bid is true efficiency—or scope interpretation that will surface only after award.
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PBFS dryer and purification study tender is cancelled

Jan 14: 8This exposes single-tender fragility in a process-critical conditioning package.
8The next re-issue, if any, will reveal whether the owner is correcting governance optics or shifting to a bundled, vendor-led technical solution.
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Jan 14: 1) ONGC tightens multi-year oil well cement supply with first-pass testing economics and lot-cancellation teeth
8ONGC’s 3-year oil well cement buy is structured less like a commodity tender and more like a repeatable lab-gated supply system where “date of offering” can decide LD outcomes.
8The document quietly prices non-conformance through billable inspection days and keeps a second acceptance trapdoor open via destination sampling that becomes final and binding.
8The real contest will be which manufacturers can hold batch discipline across dozens of lots without triggering re-offers that convert quality variance into cashflow drag.
 
2) ONGC moves Dahej fire water lines pre-bid online with corrigendum
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum does not rewrite scope, but it rewires bidder access in a tender where pre-bid is the only real negotiation window.
 
3) ONGC extends Konaban GCS LP separation and compression hire
8Behind that calendar change is a technically dense package where battery limits, metering standards, and EPC-like obligations can quietly decide who can even bid credibly.
 
4) Owner extends RE and CBG technical consultant empanelment EOI submission deadline
8The scope is not generic PMC language but a data-heavy diligence posture that treats scada, yield benchmarking, and OEM bankability as screening-grade capability.
8What the extension is really buying — and which bidder archetypes it pulls into the funnel — becomes the sharper competitive story.
 
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  • Jan 14: E&P contracting brief: Part II:Details
  • Jan 14: LBP Mumbai IATF consultancy tender narrows to one qualified bidder after technical evaluation:Details
  • Jan 14: Failure investigation and FFS-RLA tender narrows to two qualified bidders as scope loads open-ended testing risk:Details
  • Jan 14: Owner tightens pellet-plant bidder pool with biomass-specific “similar work” gate and reverse auction:Details
  • Jan 14: Downstream contracting briefs: Part I:Details
  • Jan 14: Rs 2400 crore private E&P development: An update:Details