IGX says its new platform is not a gas exchange product. Shell wins battle to quadruple capacity. Swan LNG gets its second jetty. Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. IOCL turns feasibility studies into a refinery-wide project screening engine. GAIL’s admits complexity in building a nationwide pipeline engineering bench. Lubricants consultancy is turned into a 10% cost-reduction delivery contract. Permanent engineering gatekeeper before every future refinery project: Timemines extended. OIL ties its Andaman drilling push to an eight-point mooring spread as contractors absorb integrated rig and marine-logistics risk. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. Downstream contracting briefs: Awards. Downstream contracting briefs. E&P contracting brief: Part I. E&P contracting brief: Part II. Daily forward looking import matrices. ONGC starts India's first deepwater exploration well off Odisha coast. Jhansi District City Gas Distribution Project. Lucknow District City Gas Distribution Project. The end of the LNG story for gas-based power?. Two prices for the same gas, on the same exchange, on the same day. E&P provision comes to bite: Arbitration can kill your business. GAIL's Rs 4,664-crore LPG expansion hinges on just 25 km of wildlife corridor. BPCL's refinery-led SAF strategy runs into roadblock. Coal gasification may be the technology: But permitting is becoming the bigger risk Heading. Rs. 2,051-crore gas pipeline back for ToR name amendment. PNGRB is holding 428 bank guarantees: And they have delivered under one per cent. 400 KLPD SAF option inside a distillery, but capacity trail raises questions. ONGC’s 114-platform health-assessment tender leaves only one technically qualified bidder . OIL returns to Sadiya with a 6,550 m replacement well after three bore paths ended in abandonment. Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. Daily forward looking import matrices. E&P contracting brief for the day. New 136 KTA Toluene unit: Agency has to aim low and then high. GAIL’s global LNG spread: Its desk has to reach out across multiple ports. How to scale an in-house refinery additive build-up: Here is how. Alert: GAIL major initiates an entirely new way of building a gas pipeline. Downstream contracting briefs: Part I.
IGX says its new platform is not a gas exchange product
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Shell wins battle to quadruple capacity
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Swan LNG gets its second jetty
Jul 27: 8But there is a hard line around LPG expansion Click on Details for more
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector
Jul 27: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section Click on Reports for more DetailsDetails
IOCL turns feasibility studies into a refinery-wide project screening engine
Jul 27: 8This gives the company a standing mechanism to test process, utility and offsite concepts before projects reach heavier engineering stages. The bigger question is whether a centralised framework can maintain study quality across sharply different refinery configurations. 8Clearly, there may be four consultants under one feasibility agreement 8What is sought is the industrialization of the feasibility-study stage. Project screening is being converted from a sequence of one-off consultancy tenders into a standing refinery-wide service architecture with predetermined rates, schedules and contractual controls. Click on Details for moreDetails
GAIL’s admits complexity in building a nationwide pipeline engineering bench
Jul 27: 8The tender is not for one project but for a two-year pipeline and GPU engineering platform covering integrity, HDD, repairs, crossings and station modifications. The deeper question is whether India’s consulting market has enough firms with the breadth, software and references needed to score strongly across the entire mandate. Click on Details for moreDetails
Lubricants consultancy is turned into a 10% cost-reduction delivery contract
Jul 27: 8The consultant must move beyond benchmarking and implement measurable savings across the owner’s lubricants supply chain. The target excludes internally sourced base-oil procurement cost, concentrating pressure on other operating cost pools. The unresolved issue is whether those remaining levers are large enough to deliver the stated reduction within nine months. Click on Details for more
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Permanent engineering gatekeeper before every future refinery project: Timemines extended
Jul 27: 8This is not a consultancy tender. It is building a three-year engineering gate through which future FEED, BDEP, flare studies, furnace studies and residual engineering assignments will flow. The repeated deadline extensions raise the question of whether enough firms can actually satisfy the qualification architecture. Click on Details for moreDetails
OIL ties its Andaman drilling push to an eight-point mooring spread as contractors absorb integrated rig and marine-logistics risk
Jul 27: 8OIL is seeking an anchor-moored floater capable of drilling to at least 5,000 m in water depths up to 450 m across its Andaman offshore blocks. 8The package combines an eight-point mooring system with four additional piggyback anchors, a high-bollard-pull AHTS, an offshore supply vessel and ROV support. 8Whether the available global fleet can meet that configuration within the 120-day mobilisation ceiling remains the decisive question. Click on Details for moreDetails
Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day
Jul 27: 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.
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Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day
Jul 27: 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.
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Downstream contracting briefs: Awards
Jul 27: 1) HPCL turns a slope study into the design gate for pipeline protection at Khandala 8S & R Geotechniques has not merely won a geological survey. The consultant must convert rock-mass data, borehole evidence and failure modelling into construction-ready stabilisation drawings, BOQ and cost estimates. The award will shape HPCL’s next spending decision on protecting the Mumbai–Pune–Solapur Pipeline corridor.
2) GAIL’s geotechnical award is the first risk gate in its plan to double JLPL capacity 8Winner emerges in an eight-way Rajasthan investigation package supporting GAIL’s proposed expansion of the Jamnagar-Loni LPG pipeline from 3.25 MMTPA to 6.5 MMTPA. The contract will generate the subsurface data needed for crossings, stations and detailed engineering. The bigger story is how a relatively small survey award can influence the design risk of a major pipeline expansion.
3) CPCL discovers the real price of Refinery-III shutdown risk 8It is Rs 17.35 crore
4) IOCL’s KASPL security award turns line walkers into the last-mile verification layer for pipeline integrity 8The contractor is not being hired merely to patrol the ROW. Its personnel must verify PIDWS alerts, gather local intelligence, use GPS-enabled applications and support drone-based surveillance across a 212 km pipeline stretch. The larger question is whether a manpower agency can consistently deliver information at the standard expected from an integrity-management system.
Jul 27: 1) HPCL’s plastic pyrolysis oil trial is trapped inside an alumina-ball tender template 8HPCL is seeking 20 ton of ISCC-certified plastic pyrolysis oil that must clear a seven-parameter laboratory gate before its commercial bid is considered.
2) CBG tender turns electricity consumption into a competitive weapon 8Bid evaluation includes the electricity consumption guaranteed by each contractor, valued at Rs 8 per kWh with annual escalation. A lower consumption promise can improve bid ranking, but excess usage during operations may invite recovery from the contractor. The tender therefore rewards aggressive efficiency commitments before testing whether they remain commercially survivable.
3) IOCL turns pipeline HAZOP consultancy into a two-agency safety capacity pool 8IOCL is not hiring a consultant for one defined pipeline project; it is creating a two-year pool for projects that are yet to mature. The 60:40 split gives the Pipelines Division parallel HAZOP capacity without committing the full workload upfront. The real test is whether specialist agencies will reserve senior safety personnel when call-up volumes remain uncertain.
4) IOCL extends Barauni’s 33 kV islanding bid by seven days but leaves the eight-month execution clock unchanged 8The verified submission deadline has moved. No corresponding extension has been made to the eight-month period after site handover. The project may therefore lose procurement time without gaining execution contingency.
5) BPCL shifts the real qualification test to after price opening in Kochi hydrogen tender 8BPCL has removed the need for all bidders to submit TPIA-verified qualification documents upfront. Only the successful bidder must produce authenticated records, and it gets five days to do so. The change may widen competition, but it also creates a new risk of an L1 bidder failing after commercial opening.
Jul 27: 1) ONGC ties payment for 869 offshore WBM phases to mud performance while laboratory checks can only push award values downward 8ONGC has linked the full value of each offshore mud phase—including consumed chemicals and engineering charges—to a 100-point performance score. 8The three-year programme combines laboratory-validated WBM formulations, digital fluid modelling and three-day offshore call-outs across 869 phases. 8But the interaction between geological uncertainty, adjustable phase deployment and deductions down to 80% creates a deeper risk that only the detailed clauses reveal.
2) ONGC ties Rajahmundry logging support to strict monthly KPIs as one contractor absorbs field, transport and HSE coordination 8ONGC is consolidating well-site logging assistance, explosive transportation and base support under a single three-year performance framework at Rajahmundry. 8The contractor must support jobs that can continue beyond 24 hours while monthly scores fall sharply when completion, turnaround or availability slips below defined thresholds. 8Whether the reporting system can isolate contractor failures from well, rig and departmental-equipment delays remains the tender’s critical operational question.
3) OIL makes site, land and grid verification the gatekeeper for NRL’s approximately 300 MW group-captive solar project 8OIL is commissioning a single technical adviser to take NRL’s approximately 300 MW solar project from a location-agnostic DPR through EPC selection and initial operations. 8The EPC partner must bring land and evacuation connectivity, forcing competing sites, yield claims and transmission arrangements into the same evaluation. 8How the consultant converts these unlike offers into a defensible project choice will shape the risk carried into execution.
4) OIL turns workover rig into four-year water-disposal drilling platform while crew and crane failures threaten contractor revenue 8OIL plans to use a company-provided workover rig to drill 1,600–1,900 metre associated-water disposal wells across Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. 8The contractor must integrate round-the-clock drilling, minor maintenance, well-control support and inter-location logistics around an asset it does not own. 8A severe interaction between crane availability, crew payment and movement deductions places the real operating risk deeper inside the package.
5) ONGC awards Mission Anveshan’s 10,875 LKM seismic processing race to Samit 8ONGC has placed Samit Spectrum at the front of a six-sector seismic processing and interpretation programme where raw data will arrive in staggered batches. 8Samit’s offer is 13.1% below L2 and 46.0% below L4, creating a striking divergence in how bidders priced the same technical and schedule exposure. 8The decisive test lies inside the contract’s full-fold payment rule, compressed execution window and reduction in rates for delayed work.
Jul 27: 1) OIL awards Unchawas forecasting mandate to Tata Power Trading at a 32.4% discount to Manikaran’s bid 8OIL has selected Tata Power Trading for the regulatory forecasting interface at its 25.2 MW Unchawas wind plant. 8Manikaran Analytics priced the same three-year mandate 32.4% higher, exposing sharply different assumptions about data, equipment and deviation-settlement risk. 8The decisive issue lies in how the amended ABT and SCADA allocation reshaped what each bidder believed it was accepting.
2) ONGC keeps four bidders in Western Offshore pigging race after rejecting wider interpretation of pipeline experience 8ONGC has technically qualified Bscc Offshore, Carlton Industrial Engineers, Das Offshore and V Tech Offshore Services while disqualifying Priserve Infrastructure. 8Its pre-bid ruling refused to equate corrosion-monitoring access-fitting work with valve or pig-barrel installation, preserving a narrow experience gate. 8The unresolved question is whether Priserve fell on this exact boundary or on another undisclosed compliance failure.
3) ONGC shifts Kathana sucker-rod guide work from per-guide to per-rod billing in latest corrigendum 8ONGC has recast three SMG price items around complete rods while retaining the same numerical quantities. 8The amendment also cuts the guide requirement from five to four and widens full-length inspection technology subject to ONGC approval. 8The unresolved issue is how bidders will price variable stripping effort inside a single rod-level rate.
4) OIL extends four-unit cementing tender but leaves fleet, laboratory and penalty burdens unchanged 8OIL has granted bidders another 14 days for its three-year cementing-services package covering four operational units. 8The extension follows challenges to fleet size, equipment vintage, laboratory deployment, fuel exposure and overlapping downtime consequences, yet none is relaxed 8Whether extra preparation time can overcome the unchanged cost of readiness remains the question behind the revised deadline.
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ONGC starts India's first deepwater exploration well off Odisha coast
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