Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector. Oil India’s 700-camera surveillance is met with sullen response from staff. ONGC wants to own deepwater drill ships. Emerson gets beaten by a massive in 81.8% for ONGC’s Mumbai High order. ASAP Fluids wins Oil India’s Rajasthan mud engineering contract with a 17.9% price advantage. ONGC’s zero-bid verdict turns the N-25 cancellation into a market warning. IPA/propane/sulphuric acid/wax: Refiner looks at new units in these segments. Rs 20,000 crore project review: Cancelled. GAIL makes regulatory delay a contractor risk as Skp Projects wins pan-India pipeline permission mandate. IOCL-BPCL-HPCL biodiesel award puts capacity allocation, not L1 pricing, at the centre of the Rs 1,397.72 crore procurement. MRPL Bio-ATF project draws four global instrumentation vendors into a tightly controlled limited-bid contest. 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: Part I. E&P contracting brief: Part II. E&P contracting brief: Part III. E&P contracting brief: Part IV. Trump puts 81 million Gulf acres up for oil and gas auction. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. GE Shipping Sitting on $700 million in cash: But will not do much with it . Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. Daily forward looking import matrices. Downstream contracting briefs: Results. Downstream contracting briefs: Part I. Downstream contracting briefs: Part II. Downstream contracting briefs: Part III. Downstream contracting briefs: Part IV. Patna sees rising CNG demand as network expands to 41 stations and over 60,000 vehicles. South Goa District City Gas Distribution Project. 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. Oil rises as Iran tempers hopes for swift Hormuz reopening. 18 MMTPA of new refining capacity lands in two months. EV economics don't work without cheap financing: CNG bets on buses. How 13.6% of CGD's volume delivered 100% of its profit growth. CGD major's battery bet broke because batteries got cheaper.
Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector
Aug 13: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section Click on Reports for more DetailsDetails
Oil India’s 700-camera surveillance is met with sullen response from staff
Aug 13: 8The move by the oil major to get all the cameras under an edge-to-cloud AI backbone has set the cat among the pigeons in the company 8Core detection cases include missing PPE, entry into prohibited zones, mobile-phone use in restricted areas, unidentified persons, slips, trips, falls, work at height without a harness, and fire or smoke. 8But employees are saying this is nothing else but surveillance in the name of safety Click on Details for moreDetails
ONGC wants to own deepwater drill ships
Aug 13: 8It is looking at owning vessels or getting in JVs for them 8This is a big opportunity for many Click on Details for moreDetails
Emerson gets beaten by a massive in 81.8% for ONGC’s Mumbai High order
Aug 13: 8The difference is unusually wide for a common, non-splittable scope. 8 L1’s price now provides a visible benchmark for a technically broad offshore audit. 8Whether that benchmark fully reflects the required field effort remains unanswered. Click on Details for moreDetails
ASAP Fluids wins Oil India’s Rajasthan mud engineering contract with a 17.9% price advantage
Aug 13: 8The spread creates a sharp commercial contrast within Oil India’s technically integrated three-year package. Click on Details for moreDetails
ONGC’s zero-bid verdict turns the N-25 cancellation into a market warning
Aug 13: 8ONGC cancelled the N-25 conductor-supported platform tender after receiving no bids at the technical bid opening on 4 August 2026. 8The outcome followed repeated deadline extensions and several technical and contractual amendments. 8The silence from contractors raises a sharper question about whether the final package remained commercially executable. Click on Details for moreDetails
IPA/propane/sulphuric acid/wax: Refiner looks at new units in these segments
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Rs 20,000 crore project review: Cancelled
Aug 13: 8Was the refinery unwilling to face some harsh truths? Click on Details for more
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GAIL makes regulatory delay a contractor risk as Skp Projects wins pan-India pipeline permission mandate
Aug 13: 8Bidders asked GAIL to soften deductions where forest, highway, wildlife and other approvals stall for reasons outside their control. GAIL refused, leaving the Rs 13.07 crore winner exposed to a risk it cannot entirely manage. Click on Details for more
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IOCL-BPCL-HPCL biodiesel award puts capacity allocation, not L1 pricing, at the centre of the Rs 1,397.72 crore procurement
Aug 13: 8The distribution exposes a different competitive hierarchy than an ordinary lowest-price tender. Click on Details for more
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MRPL Bio-ATF project draws four global instrumentation vendors into a tightly controlled limited-bid contest
Aug 13: 8Emerson, Endress + Hauser, Honeywell and Yokogawa are recorded as participants in the field-instrument tender. The enquiry was restricted to eligible EIL-enlisted suppliers and required zero deviation. Whether the four-bid field survives detailed technical scrutiny remains undisclosed. Click on Details for more
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day
Aug 13: 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
Aug 13: 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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Daily forward looking import matrices
Aug 13: 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
E&P contracting brief: Part I
Aug 13: 1) ONGC tests an eight-day advanced separator-cleaning model for Mumbai High offshore vessels 8ONGC is testing whether advanced chemistry and hybrid cleaning can compress a complex separator intervention into an eight-day offshore window. 8The Mumbai High pilot gives specialists method flexibility but exposes them to uncertain deposits, constrained deck space and demanding waste logistics. 8The unresolved performance boundary will determine whether the experiment can reshape vessel maintenance across the asset.
2) ONGC awards Rs 50.84 crore workover-rig O&M package across Western Region and Tripura Asset 8ONGC’s split award places six workover rigs under contractor-led operations while retaining tight control over personnel, maintenance KPIs and HSE performance. 8The Rs 50.84 crore outcome also sits atop a revised price structure designed around a potentially uneven fair-wage reimbursement burden. 8What the two winning values reveal about operational risk and bidder positioning depends on details absent from the public award summary.
3) Two of four bidders clear ONGC’s high-liability rig-carrier maintenance screen 8ONGC’s three-year under-chassis maintenance bid has reduced a four-company field to two technically qualified contenders. 8Bhupendra House Crane Service Private Limited and Hindustan Auto Engineering remain, while Alpine Engineering and Jaya Corporation have been disqualified without reasons in the supplied records. 8The missing evaluation trail conceals whether capability, documentation or ONGC’s layered performance exposure decided the screen.
4) Pawan Hans clears Oil India’s Andaman offshore helicopter bid as Thumby Aviation exits at the technical gate 8Oil India relaxed three operational constraints in its Andaman offshore helicopter tender, but the technically responsive field still contracted to one bidder. 8Pawan Hans qualified while Thumby Aviation was disqualified, with the decisive failed clause absent from the supplied record. 8The undisclosed evaluation trail leaves a larger question over whether the outcome reflects offshore-safety discipline or a procurement barrier that the corrigenda did not resolve.
5) ONGC extends MH and NH produced-water package after ten deadline shifts 8ONGC has moved its offshore PWC tender by another 25 days, taking the cumulative slippage from the original deadline to 159 days. 8The delay follows repeated changes to technical requirements, BOQs and bid-security mechanics for a package carrying six years of operating responsibility. 8What the extension reveals about bidder appetite and ONGC’s execution risk remains the decisive question.
Aug 13: 1) ONGC turns Hazira transport hiring into a five-year digital logistics control mandate 8ONGC’s Hazira tender makes fleet mobilisation, live GPS oversight and round-the-clock dispatch part of one operational architecture. 8The contractor must fund the digital platform while carrying broad shift, destination and surge-demand exposure. 8The clauses reveal where an apparently routine transport contract could acquire plant-level reliability consequences.
2) ONGC makes live-tank sludge conversion the performance test in Uran’s five-tank online recovery tender 8ONGC wants 35,010.65 m3 of surveyed sludge attacked without taking a single Uran crude-oil tank offline. 8The winning process must work through existing access, protect floating roofs and turn sludge into dispatchable hydrocarbon under tight quality limits. 8The real contest will be decided by how measurement risk and fragmented operating windows interact.
3) ONGC shifts Rajahmundry cementing risk into a digitally monitored HPHT service package 8ONGC is asking one contractor to carry the engineering, equipment and readiness burden across a technically diverse Rajahmundry well programme. 8Real-time MPD data sharing and HPHT slurry validation move cementing beyond conventional pumping support. 8The decisive exposure lies in how dedicated capacity, uncertain utilisation and performance deductions interact.
4) Ambika Minerals sets Rs 55.04 crore benchmark as Oil India Limited prepares split award for Duliajan barytes supply 8Oil India Limited’s five barytes bids are packed within a 5.0% range, but the lowest quote controls more than Ambika Minerals’ own allocation. 8The six-rake balance depends on a price-matching sequence that could move from L2 to L3 without reopening the tender. Inspection costs, field-trial eligibility and rail execution determine where the apparent pricing comfort may begin to fracture.
5) Bharti Industrial Safety Services leads ONGC Hazira pressure-vessel inspection award at amid a 259.7% bid spread 8ONGC’s six-cycle inspection mandate covers approximately 1,115 pressure vessels, yet L1 has priced the three-year assignment at a small value. 8The 8.5% gap to L2 contrasts sharply with L3’s 259.7% premium, exposing radically different readings of the same statutory workload. 8The decisive issue lies inside the scope clauses governing authorised-person attendance, indicative quantities and certification delivery.
Aug 13: 1) Allied exits as Solas and Spa clear ONGC’s three-year H2S services technical evaluation 8ONGC’s H2S services competition has narrowed from three bidders to two after Allied Corporation failed the technical stage. 8Solas and Spa qualified after a tender lifecycle that relaxed training language but retained a consolidated per-rig-day manpower model. 8The undisclosed disqualification ground leaves a critical question over whether offshore capability or bid responsiveness decided the cut.
2) ONGC narrows Western Offshore pipeline integrity contest to Apave TIV and CEIL after DN MES disqualification 8ONGC has reduced a three-company contest for safety-critical assessment of its Western Offshore pipelines to two technically qualified bidders.
3) ONGC’s nine-bidder CTU contest keeps Jorhat volume risk intact while selective clarifications loosen equipment barriers 8ONGC has removed a same-make tool restriction and deleted a disputed equipment-shortage deduction after bidders challenged the five-year CTU package. 8Yet the sharper commercial risks around Jorhat’s unguaranteed call-out workload, one-day mobilisation and cancellation recovery remain substantially untouched. 8The resulting bidder field reveals where ONGC has widened competition—and where it has refused to surrender control.
4) ONGC holds the commercial line as four mud-service bidders confront security, currency and split-award constraints 8ONGC’s clarification record leaves the 869-phase mud-engineering scope intact while refusing requests that could have reduced guarantee and currency exposure. 8Four participating bidders now face a two-winner structure, stringent inventory obligations and an unresolved contradiction over SFMS bank guarantees. 8The decisive competitiveness impact lies in how these risks are priced rather than in any visible relaxation of technical scope.
5) ONGC’s PMP-II bidders expose a widening gap between 42-platform execution risk and an unchanged 2028 deadline 8Three offshore contractors converged on vessel scarcity, capital blockage and insufficient working seasons in ONGC’s 42-platform makeover tender. 8ONGC widened the experience window but refused to shift the completion date, restore steel escalation or reduce performance security. 8The decisive question lies in what that selective flexibility does to competition and execution pricing.
Aug 13: 1) ONGC extends integrated SJS and SHD seismic tender but retains the up-hole cost-risk architecture 8ONGC has given seismic contractors 14 additional days, but the corrigendum leaves the tender’s most consequential electronic-detonator exposure intact. 8A separate payment clarification improves recovery for up-hole drilling without removing the 2% ceiling on the associated SJS charge. 8The resulting split between technical discretion and contractor cost responsibility will shape who finally bids.
2) ONGC extends Kathana sucker-rod facility tender after rewriting inspection and rod-level pricing terms 8ONGC has given bidders 23 additional days after changing how coupling work, SMG installation and inspection technology will be measured. 8The revisions remove some billing ambiguity but leave the contractor carrying five-year readiness, volume and KPI-linked payment risks. 8The most consequential commercial shift lies inside the revised rod-level price architecture.
3) OIL extends Baghewala SAGD directional-drilling and ranging tender after recasting consortium and mobilisation rules 8OIL’s 70-day deadline movement follows a substantial rewrite of how scarce SAGD ranging tools, personnel and consortium partners can be mobilised for Baghewala. 8The amendments ease entry barriers but simultaneously cap Set-2 standby and preserve cost-free access to supporting-company personnel. 8Whether that trade-off expands serious competition or merely shifts the premium into operating rates lies inside the revised clauses.
4) ONGC extends Ahmedabad workover-rig HVAC services tender as OEM-only procurement faces a seven-day reset 8ONGC has added seven days to an OEM-only tender protecting HVAC reliability on mobile AHWR workover rigs in Ahmedabad. 8The unchanged contract still combines rapid breakdown response with firm three-year pricing and revenue exposure when units are unavailable. 8A quiet inconsistency between visit frequency and billable jobs leaves the extension carrying more weight than its one-line notice suggests.
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