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Daily forward looking import matrices.  Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day.   Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day.  Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector.  Malappuram District City Gas Distribution Project.  Palakkad & Thrissur Districts City Gas Distribution Project.  Oil price, September 3: Crude oil flat at $96 as traders weigh fresh US-Iran attacks. What are experts saying?.  HOEC has no prompter: The management has been revamped.  Private E&P outfit: A debt free E&P company now wants Rs 1000 crore in loan.  This oil services company is absorbing its own promoter at a valuation set by the promoter.  OIL gives Andaman drillship bidders more time but keeps 120-day mobilization risk untouched.  OIL cuts workover rig load thresholds sharply in third Assam-Arunachal corrigendum.  OIL raises DP-3 drillship price-bid gate to 60 after fixing QCBS mismatch.  ONGC draws six offshore drillers into jack-up rig contest without reopening core risk terms.  IOCL gives consultants more to price an unusually broad project-development mandate.  Bina sustainable aviation fuel search tests whether non-Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids technologies are genuinely commercial.  IOC’s petrochemical consultancy accumulates 181 days of bidding time without extending its core execution clocks.  IOCL’s Cumene and Phenol consultancy has accumulated 169 days of tender slippage.  IGL: All kinds of red flags.  Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day.   Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day.  Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector.  E&P contracting brief: Part I.  E&P contracting brief: Part II.  Downstream contracting briefs.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  ONGC Videsh eyes Venezuela oil assets after US green light.  Vedanta turns Rajasthan pressure decline into a rental compression opportunity.  "Energy security is national defence," says Deep Industries. ONGC put out its fire..  Why Mumbai High's real test starts in 7 months.  Rs 1,613-crore Mumbai refinery revamp pulled out of appraisal.  Made-in-India premium casing: A first.  Oil & gas pipeline producer runs into big money.  One in three institutional votes went against ONGC's board picks. .  E&P: A 20% jump on one letter.  Another oil major eyes urea.  FSRU gets two bids.  Ex-ONGC chairman reaches near cult status.  This continuous catalyst regeneration package throws up a startling Rs 484 crore pricing gulf.  Sustainable aviation fuel survey tender extended while two-site execution risk stays intact.  

Daily forward looking import matrices

Sep 04: 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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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Sep 04: 8Get all the latest tenders announced across the oil and gas industry today.
8Discover new procurement opportunities from key public and private sector players.
Also click on the Tenders section for more detailed documentation
Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day

Sep 04: 8A daily roundup of tender results in the oil and gas sector.
8Stay informed about contract awards, winning bidders, and project allocations over all oil & gas contracts.
Click on Reports for more. Details

Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Sep 04: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Malappuram District City Gas Distribution Project

Sep 04: 8Project Name: Malappuram District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 350 crore Click here for more details Details

Palakkad & Thrissur Districts City Gas Distribution Project

Sep 04: 8Project Name: Palakkad & Thrissur Districts City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

Oil price, September 3: Crude oil flat at $96 as traders weigh fresh US-Iran attacks. What are experts saying?

Sep 04: For reference purposes the website carries here the following Newsclips (These are public domain newsclips and the website is not responsible for their content):
 8U.S. diesel prices surge toward all-time high Details
 8Russia says oil output drop is temporary as refineries restart Details
 8Russia says oil output drop is temporary as refineries restart Details
 8Nikkiso to provide pumps for German LNG import terminal Details
 8Fire at Nayagarh ethanol plant injures 4 workers Details
 8Adani Total Gas appoints Preyash Jhaveri as chief financial officer Details
 8Engineers India extends additional charge for director (commercial) role Details
 8Petronet LNG to attend J.P. Morgan India Conference 2026 in Mumbai Details
 8E20 petrol starts impacting secondhand vehicle market across India Details
 8Goa to provide 3 free LPG cylinders to citizens annually, beneficiaries to get Rs 3,000 under scheme Details
 8Goa earmarks Rs.100 crore for Ujjwala LPG cylinder scheme Details
 8LPG consumption falls 16% as govt steps up piped gas push amid energy supply disruptions Details
 8Indian Army targets PNG conversion across 41 establishments by FY27 Details
 8MNGL reaches 9 lakh households in Pune, launches special drive to activate connections by Sept-end Details
 8West Bengal Transport Minister warns Bengal Gas over CNG supply Details
 8Oil importers are learning to live with a new reality as old routes of business fall apart Details
 8Russia largest supplier of crude in Aug, US tops LPG, LNG volumes Details
 8Oil price, September 3: Crude oil flat at $96 as traders weigh fresh US-Iran attacks. What are experts saying? Details
 8US oil giant Chevron confirms it will expand operations in Venezuela Details
 8US struck 60 targets as 40 vessels, 18mn barrels of oil crossed Hormuz in record day: Report Details
 8Oil edges down as investors weigh uncertainty over U.S.-Iran strikes Details
 8Iraq oil exports surge, India set to benefit as Hormuz flows ease Details
 8Iran-US attacks restart: Refiners in the crosshairs again as some Gulf cargoes stand delayed, cancelled Details
 8Supreme Court allows OIL to file fresh plea on DibruSaikhowa project Details
 8NRDC, ONGC sign MoU to take energy technologies from laboratory to market Details
 8Iraq oil exports surge, India set to benefit as Hormuz flows ease Details
 8Shell joins BP exploration projects offshore Brazil, US Details
 8Texas oil regulator hails 'oil theft bust' Details
 8Asia oil buying spree sends ME crude prices soaring Details
 8Chevron announces JV plans to invest $7B in Venezuela Details
 8Brent could hit $100 soon Details
 8MOL completes unification of ship management units Details
 8Inox Wind secures Rs.755-crore turnkey project from Indian Oil Details
 8Faster EV transition could cut India’s oil, battery import bill by USD 125 bn annually by 2050: ICCT Details
 8'Conflict will be solved by dialogue': India as US weighs sanctions on Russian oil buyers Details
 8BPCL plans CNG, PNG expansion across 15 Kashmir districts as J&K pushes cleaner energy Details
 8GAIL (India) Ltd to hire executive trainee through GATE-2027, graduate engineers to check details now Details
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HOEC has no prompter: The management has been revamped

Sep 03: So who calls the shots?
8We found out more
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Private E&P outfit: A debt free E&P company now wants Rs 1000 crore in loan

Sep 03: 8What has changed for the company?
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This oil services company is absorbing its own promoter at a valuation set by the promoter

Sep 03: 8The stock fell 13% the day it was announced. Nine months later shareholders voted 99.99% for it.
8So what really is going on? Details

OIL gives Andaman drillship bidders more time but keeps 120-day mobilization risk untouched

Sep 03: 8OIL has pushed its Andaman offshore drillship tender, handing contractors a lot of legroom to lock down a rig, AHTS, OSV and supporting offshore services.
8The extension is substantial for a package demanding operations to 450 m water depth, minimum 5,000 m drilling capability and a tightly specified marine spread.
8But OIL has changed none of the post-award terms, leaving the critical question of whether extra bidding time can produce firmer asset commitments without merely compressing the campaign schedule.
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OIL cuts workover rig load thresholds sharply in third Assam-Arunachal corrigendum

Sep 03: 8OIL’s third amendment to its six-rig Assam-Arunachal workover tender cuts several of the package’s most important mechanical thresholds, including static rotary capacity from 250 tons to 138 tons.
8The revision also lowers the BOP test-bench rating, relaxes handling-tool capacities and strips selected instrumentation and protection language from the specification.
8The unanswered question is whether OIL is correcting an over-specified tender or materially widening the equipment pool after bidder feedback.
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OIL raises DP-3 drillship price-bid gate to 60 after fixing QCBS mismatch

Sep 03: 8OIL has corrected a consequential QCBS inconsistency in its two-DP-3-drillship tender, lifting the commercial-opening threshold from a residual 50 technical marks to 60.
8The change aligns the price-bid clause with Amendment No. 3 while leaving the 70% commercial weightage and 15 September deadline untouched.
8The deeper issue is how much of the prospective ultra-deepwater rig pool survives once OIL’s widened entry conditions meet the tougher quality gate.
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ONGC draws six offshore drillers into jack-up rig contest without reopening core risk terms

Sep 03: 8ONGC’s three-year jack-up rig tender has attracted six bidders and they face a 180-day mobilisation clock, annual-value-linked delay damages and a contract rule that can force overlapping operating states onto the lower applicable day rate.
8The unanswered question is how much of that contractual downside each driller has absorbed before the price bids are opened.
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IOCL gives consultants more to price an unusually broad project-development mandate

Sep 03: 8Consultants still face responsibility extending from feasibility and front-end engineering into procurement, construction and commissioning.
8Whether additional preparation time is enough to reconcile that breadth remains unanswered.
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Bina sustainable aviation fuel search tests whether non-Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids technologies are genuinely commercial

Sep 03: 8The questionnaire reaches well beyond technology descriptions into plant operating certificates, run lengths, feedstocks and commissioning history.
8That gives Engineers India Limited a mechanism to separate process concepts from technologies with demonstrable operating evidence.
8Whether enough suppliers can clear that evidentiary threshold is not yet disclosed.
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IOC’s petrochemical consultancy accumulates 181 days of bidding time without extending its core execution clocks

Sep 03: 8The growing mismatch between procurement time and execution time is becoming the tender's most consequential schedule signal.
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IOCL’s Cumene and Phenol consultancy has accumulated 169 days of tender slippage

Sep 03: 8The original 6 April closing date has now been pushed through nine extensions.
8Individual movements may look procedural, but their cumulative duration is difficult to dismiss as routine tender housekeeping.
8What Indian Oil Corporation Limited is still waiting to resolve before opening technical bids is not stated.
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IGL: All kinds of red flags

Sep 03: Three chairmen in twelve months, a new MD, a repatriated CFO — and two years of exchange fines for board composition.
8It sold more gas than ever and made less money out of it
8The parent that sells it gas, then collects the dividend
8Betting on solar as EVs eat the core
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Sep 03: 8Get all the latest tenders announced across the oil and gas industry today.
8Discover new procurement opportunities from key public and private sector players.
Also click on the Tenders section for more detailed documentation
Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day

Sep 03: 8A daily roundup of tender results in the oil and gas sector.
8Stay informed about contract awards, winning bidders, and project allocations over all oil & gas contracts.
Click on Reports for more. Details

Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Sep 03: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Sep 03: 1) OIL puts six high-pour-point wells behind specialised downhole chemistry contract
8OIL is moving a six-well Assam-Arunachal production programme onto specialised downhole chemical injection after high-pour-point crude previously constrained well activation.
8Two wells are already producing, while four equipped with injection mandrels remain under testing across gas-lift and SRP configurations.
8The deeper contest is over which vendor can turn 356,484 litres of projected chemistry into sustained production without controlling the entire dosing chain.
 
2) OIL puts Madhuban’s expanding crude tank farm through worst-case surge test
8OIL is commissioning a system-wide transient study around ROSOVs, MOVs, pumps and crude-transfer operations at its Madhuban secondary tank farm.
8The consultant must test sudden valve closure, pump trips and emergency shutdown scenarios using licensed hydraulic-modelling software while independently closing gaps in operating data.
8The deeper issue is whether the modelling exposes a need to rethink the tank farm's existing isolation and protection philosophy.
 
3) ONGC’s offshore Production Testing award exposes a 358.5% L1-L3 pricing gulf as Eagle Offshore wins at Rs 19.93 crore
8ONGC’s five-set 10K offshore production-testing contest has produced a commercial spread far wider than its tightly controlled technical qualification regime would suggest.
8Eagle Offshore’s Rs 19.93-crore L1 is 25.2% below SES Energy’s offer, while Almansoori sits 358.5% above the winner despite bidders pricing the same consolidated three-year deployment.
8The deeper issue is whether the gulf reflects aggressive asset utilisation assumptions at L1 or fundamentally different views of standby, maintenance and offshore risk.
 
4) ONGC awards Damoh drilling-gas contract to Nidhi as L3 lands 142.5% higher
8Nidhi Sales Corporation has emerged L1 for ONGC’s three-year industrial-gas supply package supporting Frontier Basins drilling operations.
8Ashrafi Construction sits only 1.6% higher, but Shri Ji Gases has priced the same evaluated package at more than twice the winning level.
8The divergence puts the spotlight on how bidders have valued cylinder inventory, emergency replenishment and an unusually elastic contract duration.
 
5) ONGC Tripura WSS race narrows to three as two oilfield bidders fail technical gate
8ONGC has qualified MRA Oil Field Services, Satya Oil Field Services and Svl Engineering Services while eliminating two of five participants from its three-year Tripura WSS O&M contest.
8The surviving bidders face a contract where manpower shortages can erase maintenance and operation day rates, while driving-competency gaps must be covered with additional personnel at the contractor’s own cost.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Sep 03: 1) OIL cuts seven-bidder water-disposal rig contest to five after technical qualification
8OIL has qualified five of seven participants for its four-year workover-rig O&M package covering shallow water-disposal drilling in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
8MRD Enterprises and South Asia Consultancy have fallen out before financial evaluation, shrinking the field by 28.6% while the contract still places broad drilling, maintenance and residual-scope responsibility on the service provider.
8The unanswered question is whether the two eliminations expose a hard technical capability threshold or a narrower compliance failure hidden inside OIL's evaluation process.
 
2) ONGC rewires MSME payments in Rajahmundry bunk-house tender while pushing GST call back to bidders
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum leaves the drilling-rig bunk-house repair scope intact but materially changes how MSME invoices and one GST line must be handled.
8Mandatory TReDS routing now sits alongside optional receivables discounting, while financing charges and platform risks remain vendor-side.
8The bigger question is whether this payment-system overhaul meaningfully improves contractor liquidity in a rate contract where ONGC guarantees no minimum workload.
 
3) OIL rewrites cementing qualification and staggers four-unit mobilisation as bid moves to a later date
8OIL has used its fifth corrigendum to do far more than add another 14 days to its four-unit cementing tender.
8The company has dismantled the 1,500 m drift-based experience test, doubled permitted surface-equipment vintage and stretched the fourth unit's mobilisation window to 150 days.
8The deeper question is how much these relaxations will widen the competitive field without weakening control over technically demanding directional and gas-well cementing.
 
4) ONGC pushes integrated CBM CTU-HF tender after repeated corrigendum resets
8ONGC has pushed its integrated CTU-HF tender for CBM well hydro-fracturing further following repeated corrigenda and a later rewrite of bid-security and performance-security provisions while the two-year service scope and 25% option exposure remain in place.
8What the tender does not disclose is whether the extra runway reflects competition pressure, documentation restructuring or difficulty locking specialised stimulation capacity.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Sep 03: 1) Numaligarh Refinery Polypropylene Unit puts licensed process confidentiality ahead of open pump competition
8The API 675 metering-pump tender is accessible only after bidders execute the prescribed non-disclosure agreement, while participation itself is already limited to invited indigenous suppliers.
8The confidentiality gate protects technical information tied to the polypropylene project before suppliers can even reach the full technical package.
8The sharper question is how much competition remains after technology protection and procurement eligibility are layered together.

2) BPCL keeps engineering approval risk inside the eight-month aviation turbine fuel pipeline execution clock
 8The contractor gets eight months to complete and commission the electrical and instrumentation works, but that period also absorbs 15 days of mobilisation and intervening drawing and document approvals.
8That means time consumed outside physical construction can directly eat into the contractor’s execution window.
8The clause raises a sharper question over how much schedule contingency bidders will need to build into two terminal packages with multiple system interfaces.

3) Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project pump tender stretches 74 days despite tightly controlled bidding rules
 8BPCL and Engineers India Limited have repeatedly moved the closing date for special-purpose centrifugal pumps serving the Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project, taking the listed further away.
8The nine-date sequence sits awkwardly beside an RFQ that says technical and commercial queries are not envisaged and explicitly rejects portal-related difficulties as grounds for extension.
8Whether the extra window reflects vendor appetite, engineering-interface pressure or something deeper inside the ethylene-cracker procurement remains the key unanswered issue.

4) BPCL extends Mahul wet gas compressor tender after major technical clarifications
 8Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited has moved the Mahul wet gas compressor tender away after a wide-ranging clarification exercise covering seals, rotor dynamics, testing, spares and package geometry.
8The additional time give OEMs more bid-engineering time, but the 16-month indigenous and 15-month foreign delivery clocks remain unchanged in the available documents.
8The deeper issue is whether bidders can absorb the clarified technical risk without weakening either their efficiency guarantees or their commercial competitiveness.

5) IOCL’s packed bed catalytic reactor tender turns software architecture into a technical qualification issue
 8The latest corrigendum goes beyond requiring bidders to fund their own modelling infrastructure.
8It now defines minimum characteristics of the software environment itself and demands licence details at tender submission.
8That could reshape the practical bidder universe before numerical capability is even tested.

6) GAIL Cauvery Basin pipeline inspection keeps four bidders alive despite a demanding dual magnetic flux leakage technology gate
 8Five companies entered, but only Athena Powertech, Kinben Innovation, Lin Scan Advanced Pipeline And Tank Services and Wegauge Pipeline Inspection & Services remain technically qualified.
8The tender demands previous inspection experience on pipelines of 8 inches or smaller using both axial and circumferential magnetic flux leakage tools, making this more than a conventional intelligent-pigging qualification.
8The financial opening will show whether maintaining four technically acceptable specialists translates into meaningful price tension.

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Daily forward looking import matrices

Sep 03: 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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ONGC Videsh eyes Venezuela oil assets after US green light

Sep 03: For reference purposes the website carries here the following Newsclips (These are public domain newsclips and the website is not responsible for their content):
 8Iran assures safe passage for Bangladesh LNG ships Details
 8Equinor in the US Details
 8IEEFA: Australian domestic gas demand continuing to fall Details
 8Subsea7 wins ‘sizeable’ contract for Who Dat project in US Details
 8Chinese shipbuilder taps GTT for tank design of four LNG carriers Details
 8Oil holds above $90 as fighting flares Details
 8SOCAR to invest in Haynesville with nearly $1.7B Comstock partnership Details
 8Texas oil regulator names new oil, gas director Details
 8Methanex to halt NZ production indefinitely over gas supply uncertainty Details
 8China maintains stable refined fuel exports under relaxed controls, sources say Details
 8Oil shipments to India face delivery hurdles on West Asia snarls Details
 8ONGC Videsh eyes Venezuela oil assets after US green light Details
 8Welspun, Perma-Pipe ink pact to set up pipe manufacturing, coating facilities in Jordan Details
 8South Korea, Japan discuss cooperation on emergency energy supply Details
 8Oil prices extend gains as US and Iran trade fresh strikes Details
 8US energy chief says Venezuela oil output to more than double in next few years Details
 8Windfall tax slashed on fuel exports Details
 8Chevron to expand Venezuela operations: US official confirms new investments and visit Details
 8Pakistan’s LNG dilemma deepens as Middle East energy crisis hits power supply Details
 8Rare ship-to-ship LNG transfers conducted outside Hormuz Details
 8US LNG exports surge 23% in H1 2026 as new capacity boosts shipments: EIA Details
 8CNG availability, fare hike among issues raised by app cab operators at meeting with Bengal minister Details
 8India boosts Far East Russian oil imports as war upends trade routes Details
 8Kazakhstan to double oil refining capacity by 2040 Details
 8The suspicious timing behind Trump's “biggest oil deal in history” Details
 8India's diesel, petrol demand rises in Aug as economic activity grows Details
 8HPCL launches 10kg composite LPG cylinder in Nagpur at Rs 1,725 Details
 8Indian markets open lower as geopolitical tensions fuel crude oil prices Details
 8Oil shipments to India face delivery hurdles on Mideast snarls Details
 8Supreme Court allows Oil India to file plea on rejection of drilling proposal at Assam’s Dibru-Saikhowa National Park Details
 8SC allows Oil India to file fresh plea over ERD project beneath Dibru-Saikhowa Details
 8IndianOil refineries to build an energy-secure and self-reliant India, says Director (Refineries) Arvind Kumar Details
 8ONGC extends flood relief in Assam; supports 10,700 families with Rs. 1.51 Cr assistance Details
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Vedanta turns Rajasthan pressure decline into a rental compression opportunity

Sep 02: 8The deeper question is how much production responsibility will ultimately travel with the rental model.
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"Energy security is national defence," says Deep Industries. ONGC put out its fire.

Sep 02: 8It seeks "defence-style" valuation eight months after the Mori-5 blowout.
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Why Mumbai High's real test starts in 7 months

Sep 02: 8Watch out for April next year
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Rs 1,613-crore Mumbai refinery revamp pulled out of appraisal

Sep 02: 8What really happened?
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Made-in-India premium casing: A first

Sep 02: 8An Indian company just did what only Tenaris and Vallourec used to do in Indian wells
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Oil & gas pipeline producer runs into big money

Sep 02: It paid $102 million for a company sitting on $83 million of cash. It is debt-free, made $38 million profit in 2025 and came with a $120 million order book.
8It is now shipping its idle mills abroad
8And its Mumbai real estate may earn it more money than its pipes Details

One in three institutional votes went against ONGC's board picks.

Sep 02: 8The government's 59% made it moot.
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E&P: A 20% jump on one letter

Sep 02: 8How DSF-IV is reaching the market
Investors are learning them in a different way these days Details

Another oil major eyes urea

Sep 02: 8And it has quietly taken the first step
8Yet another oil & gas heavyweight is studying a fertilizer plant under the new urea policy.
8GAIL is already building two, and OIL has also shown an interest
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FSRU gets two bids

Sep 02: 8The two-company field emerged despite global bidding, consortium permission, repeated deadline extensions and material revisions to long-duration security and liability provisions.
8The sharper story lies in what the tender still demands from whichever bidder survives technical evaluation.
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Ex-ONGC chairman reaches near cult status

Sep 02: 8He has a squabble with the minister and quit
8But the company thinks  he was the best chairman it ever had
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This continuous catalyst regeneration package throws up a startling Rs 484 crore pricing gulf

Sep 02: 8That makes the rival offer 52.7% higher than L1 on the same technically evaluated package.
8What produced such radically different valuations of engineering, procurement and execution risk is the issue worth examining.
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Sustainable aviation fuel survey tender extended while two-site execution risk stays intact

Sep 02: 8The winner must investigate refinery utilities and subsurface conditions while also pricing a second site that may not be handed over for a year or more.
8The more consequential issue is how much of that land, mobilisation and quantity uncertainty Indian Oil Corporation Limited has left sitting with the contractor.
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Sep 04: 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
Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Sep 04: 8Get all the latest tenders announced across the oil and gas industry today.
8Discover new procurement opportunities from key public and private sector players.
Also click on the Tenders section for more detailed documentation
Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day

Sep 04: 8A daily roundup of tender results in the oil and gas sector.
8Stay informed about contract awards, winning bidders, and project allocations over all oil & gas contracts.
Click on Reports for more. Details

Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Sep 04: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
Click on Reports for more Details Details

Malappuram District City Gas Distribution Project

Sep 04: 8Project Name: Malappuram District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 350 crore Click here for more details Details

Palakkad & Thrissur Districts City Gas Distribution Project

Sep 04: 8Project Name: Palakkad & Thrissur Districts City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

Oil price, September 3: Crude oil flat at $96 as traders weigh fresh US-Iran attacks. What are experts saying?

Sep 04: For reference purposes the website carries here the following Newsclips (These are public domain newsclips and the website is not responsible for their content):
 8U.S. diesel prices surge toward all-time high Details
 8Russia says oil output drop is temporary as refineries restart Details
 8Russia says oil output drop is temporary as refineries restart Details
 8Nikkiso to provide pumps for German LNG import terminal Details
 8Fire at Nayagarh ethanol plant injures 4 workers Details
 8Adani Total Gas appoints Preyash Jhaveri as chief financial officer Details
 8Engineers India extends additional charge for director (commercial) role Details
 8Petronet LNG to attend J.P. Morgan India Conference 2026 in Mumbai Details
 8E20 petrol starts impacting secondhand vehicle market across India Details
 8Goa to provide 3 free LPG cylinders to citizens annually, beneficiaries to get Rs 3,000 under scheme Details
 8Goa earmarks Rs.100 crore for Ujjwala LPG cylinder scheme Details
 8LPG consumption falls 16% as govt steps up piped gas push amid energy supply disruptions Details
 8Indian Army targets PNG conversion across 41 establishments by FY27 Details
 8MNGL reaches 9 lakh households in Pune, launches special drive to activate connections by Sept-end Details
 8West Bengal Transport Minister warns Bengal Gas over CNG supply Details
 8Oil importers are learning to live with a new reality as old routes of business fall apart Details
 8Russia largest supplier of crude in Aug, US tops LPG, LNG volumes Details
 8Oil price, September 3: Crude oil flat at $96 as traders weigh fresh US-Iran attacks. What are experts saying? Details
 8US oil giant Chevron confirms it will expand operations in Venezuela Details
 8US struck 60 targets as 40 vessels, 18mn barrels of oil crossed Hormuz in record day: Report Details
 8Oil edges down as investors weigh uncertainty over U.S.-Iran strikes Details
 8Iraq oil exports surge, India set to benefit as Hormuz flows ease Details
 8Iran-US attacks restart: Refiners in the crosshairs again as some Gulf cargoes stand delayed, cancelled Details
 8Supreme Court allows OIL to file fresh plea on DibruSaikhowa project Details
 8NRDC, ONGC sign MoU to take energy technologies from laboratory to market Details
 8Iraq oil exports surge, India set to benefit as Hormuz flows ease Details
 8Shell joins BP exploration projects offshore Brazil, US Details
 8Texas oil regulator hails 'oil theft bust' Details
 8Asia oil buying spree sends ME crude prices soaring Details
 8Chevron announces JV plans to invest $7B in Venezuela Details
 8Brent could hit $100 soon Details
 8MOL completes unification of ship management units Details
 8Inox Wind secures Rs.755-crore turnkey project from Indian Oil Details
 8Faster EV transition could cut India’s oil, battery import bill by USD 125 bn annually by 2050: ICCT Details
 8'Conflict will be solved by dialogue': India as US weighs sanctions on Russian oil buyers Details
 8BPCL plans CNG, PNG expansion across 15 Kashmir districts as J&K pushes cleaner energy Details
 8GAIL (India) Ltd to hire executive trainee through GATE-2027, graduate engineers to check details now Details
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HOEC has no prompter: The management has been revamped

Sep 03: So who calls the shots?
8We found out more
Click on Details for more Details

Private E&P outfit: A debt free E&P company now wants Rs 1000 crore in loan

Sep 03: 8What has changed for the company?
Click on Details for more Details

This oil services company is absorbing its own promoter at a valuation set by the promoter

Sep 03: 8The stock fell 13% the day it was announced. Nine months later shareholders voted 99.99% for it.
8So what really is going on? Details

OIL gives Andaman drillship bidders more time but keeps 120-day mobilization risk untouched

Sep 03: 8OIL has pushed its Andaman offshore drillship tender, handing contractors a lot of legroom to lock down a rig, AHTS, OSV and supporting offshore services.
8The extension is substantial for a package demanding operations to 450 m water depth, minimum 5,000 m drilling capability and a tightly specified marine spread.
8But OIL has changed none of the post-award terms, leaving the critical question of whether extra bidding time can produce firmer asset commitments without merely compressing the campaign schedule.
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OIL cuts workover rig load thresholds sharply in third Assam-Arunachal corrigendum

Sep 03: 8OIL’s third amendment to its six-rig Assam-Arunachal workover tender cuts several of the package’s most important mechanical thresholds, including static rotary capacity from 250 tons to 138 tons.
8The revision also lowers the BOP test-bench rating, relaxes handling-tool capacities and strips selected instrumentation and protection language from the specification.
8The unanswered question is whether OIL is correcting an over-specified tender or materially widening the equipment pool after bidder feedback.
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OIL raises DP-3 drillship price-bid gate to 60 after fixing QCBS mismatch

Sep 03: 8OIL has corrected a consequential QCBS inconsistency in its two-DP-3-drillship tender, lifting the commercial-opening threshold from a residual 50 technical marks to 60.
8The change aligns the price-bid clause with Amendment No. 3 while leaving the 70% commercial weightage and 15 September deadline untouched.
8The deeper issue is how much of the prospective ultra-deepwater rig pool survives once OIL’s widened entry conditions meet the tougher quality gate.
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ONGC draws six offshore drillers into jack-up rig contest without reopening core risk terms

Sep 03: 8ONGC’s three-year jack-up rig tender has attracted six bidders and they face a 180-day mobilisation clock, annual-value-linked delay damages and a contract rule that can force overlapping operating states onto the lower applicable day rate.
8The unanswered question is how much of that contractual downside each driller has absorbed before the price bids are opened.
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IOCL gives consultants more to price an unusually broad project-development mandate

Sep 03: 8Consultants still face responsibility extending from feasibility and front-end engineering into procurement, construction and commissioning.
8Whether additional preparation time is enough to reconcile that breadth remains unanswered.
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Bina sustainable aviation fuel search tests whether non-Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids technologies are genuinely commercial

Sep 03: 8The questionnaire reaches well beyond technology descriptions into plant operating certificates, run lengths, feedstocks and commissioning history.
8That gives Engineers India Limited a mechanism to separate process concepts from technologies with demonstrable operating evidence.
8Whether enough suppliers can clear that evidentiary threshold is not yet disclosed.
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IOC’s petrochemical consultancy accumulates 181 days of bidding time without extending its core execution clocks

Sep 03: 8The growing mismatch between procurement time and execution time is becoming the tender's most consequential schedule signal.
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IOCL’s Cumene and Phenol consultancy has accumulated 169 days of tender slippage

Sep 03: 8The original 6 April closing date has now been pushed through nine extensions.
8Individual movements may look procedural, but their cumulative duration is difficult to dismiss as routine tender housekeeping.
8What Indian Oil Corporation Limited is still waiting to resolve before opening technical bids is not stated.
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IGL: All kinds of red flags

Sep 03: Three chairmen in twelve months, a new MD, a repatriated CFO — and two years of exchange fines for board composition.
8It sold more gas than ever and made less money out of it
8The parent that sells it gas, then collects the dividend
8Betting on solar as EVs eat the core
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Sep 03: 8Get all the latest tenders announced across the oil and gas industry today.
8Discover new procurement opportunities from key public and private sector players.
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Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day

Sep 03: 8A daily roundup of tender results in the oil and gas sector.
8Stay informed about contract awards, winning bidders, and project allocations over all oil & gas contracts.
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Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Sep 03: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
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E&P contracting brief: Part I

Sep 03: 1) OIL puts six high-pour-point wells behind specialised downhole chemistry contract
8OIL is moving a six-well Assam-Arunachal production programme onto specialised downhole chemical injection after high-pour-point crude previously constrained well activation.
8Two wells are already producing, while four equipped with injection mandrels remain under testing across gas-lift and SRP configurations.
8The deeper contest is over which vendor can turn 356,484 litres of projected chemistry into sustained production without controlling the entire dosing chain.
 
2) OIL puts Madhuban’s expanding crude tank farm through worst-case surge test
8OIL is commissioning a system-wide transient study around ROSOVs, MOVs, pumps and crude-transfer operations at its Madhuban secondary tank farm.
8The consultant must test sudden valve closure, pump trips and emergency shutdown scenarios using licensed hydraulic-modelling software while independently closing gaps in operating data.
8The deeper issue is whether the modelling exposes a need to rethink the tank farm's existing isolation and protection philosophy.
 
3) ONGC’s offshore Production Testing award exposes a 358.5% L1-L3 pricing gulf as Eagle Offshore wins at Rs 19.93 crore
8ONGC’s five-set 10K offshore production-testing contest has produced a commercial spread far wider than its tightly controlled technical qualification regime would suggest.
8Eagle Offshore’s Rs 19.93-crore L1 is 25.2% below SES Energy’s offer, while Almansoori sits 358.5% above the winner despite bidders pricing the same consolidated three-year deployment.
8The deeper issue is whether the gulf reflects aggressive asset utilisation assumptions at L1 or fundamentally different views of standby, maintenance and offshore risk.
 
4) ONGC awards Damoh drilling-gas contract to Nidhi as L3 lands 142.5% higher
8Nidhi Sales Corporation has emerged L1 for ONGC’s three-year industrial-gas supply package supporting Frontier Basins drilling operations.
8Ashrafi Construction sits only 1.6% higher, but Shri Ji Gases has priced the same evaluated package at more than twice the winning level.
8The divergence puts the spotlight on how bidders have valued cylinder inventory, emergency replenishment and an unusually elastic contract duration.
 
5) ONGC Tripura WSS race narrows to three as two oilfield bidders fail technical gate
8ONGC has qualified MRA Oil Field Services, Satya Oil Field Services and Svl Engineering Services while eliminating two of five participants from its three-year Tripura WSS O&M contest.
8The surviving bidders face a contract where manpower shortages can erase maintenance and operation day rates, while driving-competency gaps must be covered with additional personnel at the contractor’s own cost.
 
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E&P contracting brief: Part II

Sep 03: 1) OIL cuts seven-bidder water-disposal rig contest to five after technical qualification
8OIL has qualified five of seven participants for its four-year workover-rig O&M package covering shallow water-disposal drilling in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
8MRD Enterprises and South Asia Consultancy have fallen out before financial evaluation, shrinking the field by 28.6% while the contract still places broad drilling, maintenance and residual-scope responsibility on the service provider.
8The unanswered question is whether the two eliminations expose a hard technical capability threshold or a narrower compliance failure hidden inside OIL's evaluation process.
 
2) ONGC rewires MSME payments in Rajahmundry bunk-house tender while pushing GST call back to bidders
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum leaves the drilling-rig bunk-house repair scope intact but materially changes how MSME invoices and one GST line must be handled.
8Mandatory TReDS routing now sits alongside optional receivables discounting, while financing charges and platform risks remain vendor-side.
8The bigger question is whether this payment-system overhaul meaningfully improves contractor liquidity in a rate contract where ONGC guarantees no minimum workload.
 
3) OIL rewrites cementing qualification and staggers four-unit mobilisation as bid moves to a later date
8OIL has used its fifth corrigendum to do far more than add another 14 days to its four-unit cementing tender.
8The company has dismantled the 1,500 m drift-based experience test, doubled permitted surface-equipment vintage and stretched the fourth unit's mobilisation window to 150 days.
8The deeper question is how much these relaxations will widen the competitive field without weakening control over technically demanding directional and gas-well cementing.
 
4) ONGC pushes integrated CBM CTU-HF tender after repeated corrigendum resets
8ONGC has pushed its integrated CTU-HF tender for CBM well hydro-fracturing further following repeated corrigenda and a later rewrite of bid-security and performance-security provisions while the two-year service scope and 25% option exposure remain in place.
8What the tender does not disclose is whether the extra runway reflects competition pressure, documentation restructuring or difficulty locking specialised stimulation capacity.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Sep 03: 1) Numaligarh Refinery Polypropylene Unit puts licensed process confidentiality ahead of open pump competition
8The API 675 metering-pump tender is accessible only after bidders execute the prescribed non-disclosure agreement, while participation itself is already limited to invited indigenous suppliers.
8The confidentiality gate protects technical information tied to the polypropylene project before suppliers can even reach the full technical package.
8The sharper question is how much competition remains after technology protection and procurement eligibility are layered together.

2) BPCL keeps engineering approval risk inside the eight-month aviation turbine fuel pipeline execution clock
 8The contractor gets eight months to complete and commission the electrical and instrumentation works, but that period also absorbs 15 days of mobilisation and intervening drawing and document approvals.
8That means time consumed outside physical construction can directly eat into the contractor’s execution window.
8The clause raises a sharper question over how much schedule contingency bidders will need to build into two terminal packages with multiple system interfaces.

3) Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project pump tender stretches 74 days despite tightly controlled bidding rules
 8BPCL and Engineers India Limited have repeatedly moved the closing date for special-purpose centrifugal pumps serving the Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project, taking the listed further away.
8The nine-date sequence sits awkwardly beside an RFQ that says technical and commercial queries are not envisaged and explicitly rejects portal-related difficulties as grounds for extension.
8Whether the extra window reflects vendor appetite, engineering-interface pressure or something deeper inside the ethylene-cracker procurement remains the key unanswered issue.

4) BPCL extends Mahul wet gas compressor tender after major technical clarifications
 8Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited has moved the Mahul wet gas compressor tender away after a wide-ranging clarification exercise covering seals, rotor dynamics, testing, spares and package geometry.
8The additional time give OEMs more bid-engineering time, but the 16-month indigenous and 15-month foreign delivery clocks remain unchanged in the available documents.
8The deeper issue is whether bidders can absorb the clarified technical risk without weakening either their efficiency guarantees or their commercial competitiveness.

5) IOCL’s packed bed catalytic reactor tender turns software architecture into a technical qualification issue
 8The latest corrigendum goes beyond requiring bidders to fund their own modelling infrastructure.
8It now defines minimum characteristics of the software environment itself and demands licence details at tender submission.
8That could reshape the practical bidder universe before numerical capability is even tested.

6) GAIL Cauvery Basin pipeline inspection keeps four bidders alive despite a demanding dual magnetic flux leakage technology gate
 8Five companies entered, but only Athena Powertech, Kinben Innovation, Lin Scan Advanced Pipeline And Tank Services and Wegauge Pipeline Inspection & Services remain technically qualified.
8The tender demands previous inspection experience on pipelines of 8 inches or smaller using both axial and circumferential magnetic flux leakage tools, making this more than a conventional intelligent-pigging qualification.
8The financial opening will show whether maintaining four technically acceptable specialists translates into meaningful price tension.

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Daily forward looking import matrices

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ONGC Videsh eyes Venezuela oil assets after US green light

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 8The suspicious timing behind Trump's “biggest oil deal in history” Details
 8India's diesel, petrol demand rises in Aug as economic activity grows Details
 8HPCL launches 10kg composite LPG cylinder in Nagpur at Rs 1,725 Details
 8Indian markets open lower as geopolitical tensions fuel crude oil prices Details
 8Oil shipments to India face delivery hurdles on Mideast snarls Details
 8Supreme Court allows Oil India to file plea on rejection of drilling proposal at Assam’s Dibru-Saikhowa National Park Details
 8SC allows Oil India to file fresh plea over ERD project beneath Dibru-Saikhowa Details
 8IndianOil refineries to build an energy-secure and self-reliant India, says Director (Refineries) Arvind Kumar Details
 8ONGC extends flood relief in Assam; supports 10,700 families with Rs. 1.51 Cr assistance Details
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Vedanta turns Rajasthan pressure decline into a rental compression opportunity

Sep 02: 8The deeper question is how much production responsibility will ultimately travel with the rental model.
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"Energy security is national defence," says Deep Industries. ONGC put out its fire.

Sep 02: 8It seeks "defence-style" valuation eight months after the Mori-5 blowout.
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Why Mumbai High's real test starts in 7 months

Sep 02: 8Watch out for April next year
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Rs 1,613-crore Mumbai refinery revamp pulled out of appraisal

Sep 02: 8What really happened?
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Made-in-India premium casing: A first

Sep 02: 8An Indian company just did what only Tenaris and Vallourec used to do in Indian wells
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Oil & gas pipeline producer runs into big money

Sep 02: It paid $102 million for a company sitting on $83 million of cash. It is debt-free, made $38 million profit in 2025 and came with a $120 million order book.
8It is now shipping its idle mills abroad
8And its Mumbai real estate may earn it more money than its pipes Details

One in three institutional votes went against ONGC's board picks.

Sep 02: 8The government's 59% made it moot.
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E&P: A 20% jump on one letter

Sep 02: 8How DSF-IV is reaching the market
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Another oil major eyes urea

Sep 02: 8And it has quietly taken the first step
8Yet another oil & gas heavyweight is studying a fertilizer plant under the new urea policy.
8GAIL is already building two, and OIL has also shown an interest
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FSRU gets two bids

Sep 02: 8The two-company field emerged despite global bidding, consortium permission, repeated deadline extensions and material revisions to long-duration security and liability provisions.
8The sharper story lies in what the tender still demands from whichever bidder survives technical evaluation.
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Ex-ONGC chairman reaches near cult status

Sep 02: 8He has a squabble with the minister and quit
8But the company thinks  he was the best chairman it ever had
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This continuous catalyst regeneration package throws up a startling Rs 484 crore pricing gulf

Sep 02: 8That makes the rival offer 52.7% higher than L1 on the same technically evaluated package.
8What produced such radically different valuations of engineering, procurement and execution risk is the issue worth examining.
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Sustainable aviation fuel survey tender extended while two-site execution risk stays intact

Sep 02: 8The winner must investigate refinery utilities and subsurface conditions while also pricing a second site that may not be handed over for a year or more.
8The more consequential issue is how much of that land, mobilisation and quantity uncertainty Indian Oil Corporation Limited has left sitting with the contractor.
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