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Daily forward looking import matrices.  Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day.  Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day.  Heated prebid standoff: Jack-up tender collapses after technical opening.  ONGC’s seismic services award shows razor-thin reverse auction gaps.  Critical infrastructure at the edge: managing design-life extensions.  E&P contracting brief for the day.  Tractebel clinches BPCL Bina Refinery energy optimization contract.  Behera wins IOCL Paradip refinery DCU SADC shutdown job.  Winner emerges to lead on CPCL transformation office.  Downstream contracting briefs.  Integration or isolation? The technical hurdles behind the manali refinery digital roadmap.  The refrigeration challenge: Scale and precision in Pata that a clarification does not address.  The Dindori cryogenic fabrication race: Five firms move to technical clearance.  BPCL awards Malkapur Hyderabad ATF pipeline permissions package.  New bunker pipeline to link JNPT terminal: massive 427% spread between L1 and L3.  BPCL SAF project at Mumbai Refinery sees three bid extensions.  CPCL’s Manali refinery QRA tender stretches forward.  Announcements.  A native desalter technology is being put to test.  IOCL locks in Valmet as sole-source partner for 2G ethanol maintenance.  GAIL launches specialized sub-river pipeline re-routing project.  Scaling to 325 KTPA: The technical hurdle of single-train LDPE dominance.  Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector.  Jamshedpur - East Singhbhum District City Gas Distribution Project.  ONGC issues $20 billion global tender for deepwater rigs.  Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day.  Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day.  Five Extensions in 64 Days: The Struggle to Keep a Global Tender Alive.  The 15-year gag: How Lummus Technology’s Novolen IP is guarded by NRL’s multi-decade NDA.  The multi-million dollar dust: Paradip Refinery’s platinum secret beneath the "spent catalyst" label lies a lucrative recovery operation.  Single bidder response tests IOCL Gujarat Refinery’s DMDS localisation push.  IOCL’s nano-scale gambit: Inside the high-stakes build of the BUP.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Downstream contracting briefs: Awards.  E&P contracting brief for the day.  Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids.  Downstream contracting briefs.  Announcements.   Parliyamentary Briefs.  

Daily forward looking import matrices

Mar 25: 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
8All tankers
8Bulk and Dry cargo
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Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day

Mar 25: 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

Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Mar 25: 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

Heated prebid standoff: Jack-up tender collapses after technical opening

Mar 25: 8Find out what really happened in the owners’ revolt
Click on Details for more Details

ONGC’s seismic services award shows razor-thin reverse auction gaps

Mar 25: 8ONGC’s latest seismic services award was not just a price race; it was a stress test of who could underwrite field risk most aggressively.
8The reverse auction spreads were tiny at the top in two contests, yet the published schedule values do not line up cleanly with the visible L1 figures.
Click on Details for more Details

Critical infrastructure at the edge: managing design-life extensions

Mar 25: 8With key offshore process complexes like BPA and BPB already exceeding their design life, and others like Tapti nearing the end, how does a global energy giant maintain safety?
8Find out ONGC’s granular engineering strategy used to keep aging offshore assets functional
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Mar 25: 1) ONGC revitalizes Kalol field with strategic LSTK tender
8ONGC is moving aggressively to upgrade its Ahmedabad Asset, launching a comprehensive Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK) project to handle peak oil and gas production.
8This 13-month fast-track initiative targets critical infrastructure, including new storage capacity and effluent handling, to meet long-term liquid gain profiles.
 
2) ONGC shifts to bespoke logistics to solve Assam rig movement crisis
8ONGC Assam Asset is abandoning conventional low bed trailers after repeated tender failures and persistent operational bottlenecks.
 
3) Cairn tests vendor depth for Rajasthan ALS support through a tightly screened EOI
8Cairn’s Rajasthan ALS EOI looks modest on the surface, but the real story is how it filters technical dependency before the bid stage.
8The notice separates hydraulic oil, HRP spares, and cylinder refurbishment into distinct capability lanes while forcing bidders to disclose whether competence sits in-house, in a consortium, or with subcontractors.
 
4) Oil India’s Rajasthan coring tender: a study in shifting requirements
8When OIL first launched the bid on 17 February 2026, it sought “oriented conventional cores.” By March, the “oriented” requirement was scrapped.
8Was this a strategic simplification to widen the bidder pool, or a reaction to technical feedback from the front lines?
 
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Tractebel clinches BPCL Bina Refinery energy optimization contract

Mar 25: 8Kavin Engineering sidelined
Click on Details for more Details

Behera wins IOCL Paradip refinery DCU SADC shutdown job

Mar 25: 8Know more
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Winner emerges to lead on CPCL transformation office

Mar 25: 8Know more
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Downstream contracting briefs

Mar 25: 1) API 675 standards: The backbone of NRL’s new PPU project but why are there repeated extensions?
8Precision is non-negotiable. With rated flows and pressures up to 38.22 KG/CM2G, the hunt for Double Diaphragm Controlled Volume Pumps is on. We analyze the "Proven Track Record" requirements that are sidelining all but the most established OEMs.
8No wonder the bidding process got extended
 
2) EIL extends extruder vacuum unit tender twice
8This is not a loose-battery buy but a tightly qualified polypropylene package built around proven liquid ring vacuum equipment and single-point package responsibility.
 
3) BPCL Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project raw water pump tender gets two deadline extensions without visible technical relaxation
8As BPCL ramps up the Bina refinery to 11 MMTPA, EIL is holding a hard line on technical deviations. When a bidder challenged the "General Purpose Process" (GPP) classification for raw water pumps—citing industry-standard GWS/LCWS categories—the response was a blunt "No deviation acceptable". Is this rigid adherence ensuring quality, or is it sidelining specialized vendors in a tightening market?
 
4) BPCL Mumbai Refinery TA 2026 piping packages slip 14 days as three linked shutdown contracts move from 14 March to 28 March
8BPCL has not changed the three-package shutdown logic. It has changed the clock twice. That usually means the market needed more room than the promoter first assumed.

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Integration or isolation? The technical hurdles behind the manali refinery digital roadmap

Mar 25: 8CPCL is demanding a "truly integrated" solution that bridges SAP, Aspen IP21, and SQL databases across five processing units in a single order.
8Why is the company finding it difficult to close the tender?
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The refrigeration challenge: Scale and precision in Pata that a clarification does not address

Mar 25: 8With an estimated weight reaching up to 1,250 MT, the new refrigeration package at GAIL Pata represents a massive logistical and engineering undertaking. This package includes a 3.5 MW screw compressor and critical static equipment positioned at elevations up to 30 m, demanding rigorous structural integrity and OEM-supervised installation.
8A clarification does not seem to say much
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The Dindori cryogenic fabrication race: Five firms move to technical clearance

Mar 25: 8Five engineering firms into the technical evaluation phase for its strategic LNG fuel tank fabrication project in Dindori.
Click on Details for more Details

BPCL awards Malkapur Hyderabad ATF pipeline permissions package

Mar 25: 8An unusually wide 81.5% gap over L2
Click on Details for more Details

New bunker pipeline to link JNPT terminal: massive 427% spread between L1 and L3

Mar 25: 8Find out more
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BPCL SAF project at Mumbai Refinery sees three bid extensions

Mar 25: 8This is as EPCM package complexity tests front-end readiness
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CPCL’s Manali refinery QRA tender stretches forward

Mar 25: 8The tender may be modest in value, but its outcome could shape how refiners convert new layout rules into actionable plant risk decisions.
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Announcements

Mar 25: New Page 1 8Today's update in E&P, midstream-downstream & CGD sector Details
8Centre rolls out landmark pipeline order with deemed approvals to turbocharge PNG expansion and ease of doing business [PIB] Details
8India steps up LPG, PNG and shipping safeguards as West Asia crisis strains energy supply lines [PIB] Details
8Centre issues sweeping 2026 pipeline order to fast-track gas access and phase out LPG in PNG-covered areas [Gazette] Details
8Gujarat Natural Resources closes trading window from April 1 ahead of Q4 and FY26 audited results Details
8NCLT clears Deep Industries’ merger with wholly owned arm Kandla Energy and Chemicals Details
8BPCL commissions 2G bioethanol refinery at Bargarh to boost E20 blending push [BPCL] Details
8BPCL-Sembcorp JV bags Numaligarh Refinery’s 10,000 TPA green hydrogen mandate at record-low tariff [BPCL] Details
8HOEC names Allen Joseph Andrade as CFO from April 1 after N Sivalai Senthilnathan resigns [HOEC] Details
8Welspun Corp shifts 22% EPIC stake between wholly owned arms in SAR 979.9 million intragroup deal [Welspun] Details
8Sealmatic India shuts trading window from April 1 ahead of H2 and FY26 audited results [Sealmatic] Details
8MRPL closes trading window from April 1 ahead of Q4 and FY26 audited results [MRPL] Details
8Hazoor Multi extends Rs 25 crore OCD tenure in shipyard arm by one year, tweaks security structure [HMPL] Details Details

A native desalter technology is being put to test

Mar 25: 8The owner now wants a controlled package supplier capable of reproducing the technology module
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IOCL locks in Valmet as sole-source partner for 2G ethanol maintenance

Mar 25: 8There is a total lack of alternative sources, is what is said
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GAIL launches specialized sub-river pipeline re-routing project

Mar 25: 8It is seeking PMC services for a complex re-routing of the 18" Khanna Nangal Pipeline (KNPL).
8The project requires micro-tunnelling at depths exceeding 6m beneath the Soan River as a permanent mitigation measure against pipeline exposure or damage
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Scaling to 325 KTPA: The technical hurdle of single-train LDPE dominance

Mar 25: 8The tender is going through its fifth extension
8This is because BPCL is pushing the limits of single-train capacity. With a 325 KTPA nameplate target and a modified 36-week BEDP schedule, the technical specifications demand a licensor with a proven 150 KTPA+ track record. For executives, the question is clear: Who has the commercially proven "Film and Injection Molding" technology to handle Ramayapatnam's massive throughput?
8This is even as the risk matrix is re-written to bring in bidders
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Mar 25: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Jamshedpur - East Singhbhum District City Gas Distribution Project

Mar 25: 8Project Name: Jamshedpur - East Singhbhum District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

ONGC issues $20 billion global tender for deepwater rigs

Mar 25: 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 war pushes India to accelerate ethanol adoption as alternative fuel Details
 8Hormuz crisis highlights deep structural weaknesses in India’s energy sector Details
 8Industry demands removal of additional VAT on regasified LNG to ease costs Details
 8Damage to Qatar’s gas terminal may impact India for years due to supply constraints Details
 8CNG shortage hits cities like Hyderabad, disrupting transport services Details
 8Mahanagar Gas assures uninterrupted PNG and CNG supply in Maharashtra and Karnataka Details
 8Panic buying triggers rush at Mumbai petrol pumps despite sufficient stocks Details
 8Government advances National Green Hydrogen Mission to boost clean energy Details
 8Delhi allocates Rs.260 crore for free LPG cylinders during Holi and Diwali Details
 8India explores ethanol as a substitute for LPG for cooking solutions Details
 8Commercial LPG supply relief linked to PNG shift, but infrastructure gaps remain Details
 8Government assures adequate petrol, diesel, and LPG supply amid concerns Details
 8Rising demand and limited storage pose risks to India’s LPG supply Details
 8Hormuz tensions drive fuel price increases across Pakistan, China, and Sri Lanka Details
 8Reliance secures Iran oil deal after US waiver approval Details
 8India’s strategic oil reserves sufficient for only about six days Details
 8Experts suggest Russia should increase oil supply to India Details
 8Government assesses India’s preparedness for potential crude shortages Details
 8NeuEN JV wins green hydrogen supply deal from Numaligarh Refinery Details
 8Industry reiterates call to remove VAT on regasified LNG Details
 8TotalEnergies shifts $1 billion investment from offshore wind to US oil and gas Details
 8India clarifies no permission needed for ships transiting Strait of Hormuz Details
 8Cabinet forms groups of secretaries for improved sector coordination Details
 8LPG supply may be restricted where PNG is available but not adopted Details
 8PM Modi calls for unified ‘Team India’ approach amid West Asia crisis Details
 8Nayara shutdown may reduce India’s refining capacity by 8% Details
 8ONGC issues $20 billion global tender for deepwater rigs Details
 8Government fast-tracks city gas infrastructure to boost PNG adoption Details
 8Leaders stress importance of keeping Strait of Hormuz open for global energy Details
 8India-US discussions highlight need to secure Hormuz transit routes Details
 8Gas shortages push low-income households back to traditional fuels Details
 8PNGRB mandates quick gas connections for institutions and community kitchens Details
 8Qatar gas infrastructure damage may increase costs for years Details
 8India plans to source crude and gas from all possible avenues amid crisis Details
 8Government assures strong preparedness with oil reserves and secure LPG shipments Details
 8Oil prices fall below $100 amid ceasefire optimism Details
 8US crude oil and product inventories show an increase Details
 8Saudi Arabia pushes US to extend Iran conflict amid rising oil prices Details
 8India’s petrol pricing system reflects significant tax-driven state differences Details
 8Oil majors are increasingly investing in Libya’s energy sector again Details
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Mar 24: 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

Mar 24: 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

Five Extensions in 64 Days: The Struggle to Keep a Global Tender Alive

Mar 24: 8This PVC licensor tender required five deadline pushes to remain viable, exposing a thin and negotiation-heavy technology market. The pattern suggests that the initial mix of strict qualification and technical demands may have pressed the global licensor pool too hard.
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The 15-year gag: How Lummus Technology’s Novolen IP is guarded by NRL’s multi-decade NDA

Mar 24: 8The legal fortress around Novolen technology
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The multi-million dollar dust: Paradip Refinery’s platinum secret beneath the "spent catalyst" label lies a lucrative recovery operation

Mar 24: 8Find out how legacy risk allocations and sampling protocols—not current market dynamics—might be deciding who wins the platinum.
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Single bidder response tests IOCL Gujarat Refinery’s DMDS localisation push

Mar 24: 8Why is Make in India-in-India not working here?
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IOCL’s nano-scale gambit: Inside the high-stakes build of the BUP

Mar 24: 8IOCL is moving beyond lab-scale experiments with a modular, 1000 L BUP designed for complex hydrocarbon and catalyst development.
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Daily forward looking import matrices

Mar 24: It is easy to get month-old import data but it is difficult to solicit forthcoming shipment information in India. We go through a laborious process of data collection to get you full import information, including company-wise, quantity-wise, port-wise, vessel-wise cargoes which are coming into India in the next 15-to30 days.
Get the daily updates for :
8LNG
8Crude
8Chemicals
8LPG
8Ammonia
8Coal & Coke
8All tankers
8Bulk and Dry cargo
Click on Reports for more. Details

Downstream contracting briefs: Awards

Mar 24: 1) CPCL’s UOP technical service extension lands as a Rs 48 lakh sole-bid award for Manali refinery process support
8Find out more
 
2) GAIL’s Vijaipur mechanical AMC award splits C2C3, LPG and HVJ packages across three winners
8GAIL’s Vijaipur AMC award is less about labour outsourcing and more about who is willing to price plant-risk into routine mechanical upkeep.
 
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Mar 24: 1) Rig owner creates a rig hire contract for itself: Pushes all responsibility the contractor
8Prabha Energy’s North Karanpura CBM package is not a plain rig hire but a tightly instrumented intervention contract built around measurable rig efficiency and surveillance-led control.
8The tender’s real innovation lies in how it hard-codes payable time, zero-rate exposure and field visibility into a shallow CBM workover campaign expected to run across multiple moves and standby windows
 
2) OIL India’s Duliajan API class G cement tender pushes quality surveillance and compliance deeper into a commodity drilling materials buy
8OIL India’s Duliajan cement tender is less a plain-volume buy and more a field-performance gate for a critical drilling consumable.
8The document hardwires sample-led approval, plant-level inspection rights and invoice-stage local-content discipline into a supply contract that still looks commodity-like on the surface.
 
3) ONGC tightens outcome-based fire and gas AMC at Mehsana CTFs around OEM-linked service control
8ONGC’s Mehsana fire and gas AMC is less a routine maintenance package than a hard-edged uptime contract for a safety-critical installed base.
8The tender narrows execution around Honeywell-linked expertise while loading the contractor with calibration integrity, breakdown response, and no-pay-until-rectification discipline.
 
4) Woodland Works wins OIL India slickline services bid after OIL widened mobilization window and narrowed selected contractor obligations
8OIL did not dilute the core well-intervention burden, but it quietly eased the bidder’s path on mobilization and selected scope edges.
8That made the tender more executable on paper, yet the final pricing spread remained unusually wide.
8The real story sits in what that gap says about vendor risk appetite in Assam-Arunachal field services.
 
5) ONGC’s corrigendum stretches bidder query window for Mumbai High produced-water-conditioning tender, without easing risk terms
8ONGC’s latest move on the Mumbai High produced-water-conditioning tender does not cut securities or relax qualifications.
8Instead, it widens the question window on a brownfield offshore package where the real risk sits in process uncertainty, integration and six-year operability.
 
6) SunPetro upstream business transformation corrigendum removes bid-stage implementation costing and shifts baseline discovery risk back to consultants
8SunPetro has softened the most difficult commercial demand in its upstream transformation tender, but only after bidders challenged how far the brief had run ahead of the facts.
8The corrigendum cuts out speculative implementation costing while making weak SOP maturity and incomplete IT baseline data the consultant’s problem anyway.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Mar 24: 1) Thirteen bidders enter BPCL’s Bina refinery expansion composite works race
8The 13-bidder turnout looks broad on paper, but the real contest may be far narrower.
 
2) CPCL’s UOP technical service extension lands as a Rs 48 lakh sole-bid award for Manali refinery process support
8Find out more
 
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Downstream contracting briefs

Mar 24: 1) BPCL Bina refinery expansion pump package slips by 55 days across six extensions
8A six-time extension on a process pump package is rarely just clerical drift.
 
2) Five extensions stretch IOCL Gujarat Refinery’s AU-I and AU-II corrosion control tender
8Bidders force clarity on tenure and process risk
 
3) Desalter revamp: A 9-day extension rarely matters in isolation
8But it matters when the package is brownfield, limited-circulation, and zero-deviation.
 
4) HPCL extends PMC bid for Visakh bitumen tank project
8The real issue is that core technical clarifications, equipment data and process documents landed late enough to force bidders to revisit execution risk and pricing.
 
5) BPCL’s BPREP LV electric heater tender gets one 8-day extension
8The package still sits inside a tightly controlled, zero-deviation procurement frame with a heavy technical-document burden. That combination can reveal more about bidder appetite and project pacing than the date revision alone.
 
6) HPCL’s Mangalore LPG pipeline pigging tender gets a six-day extension after query clarifications
8The extension is small, but the reason is not. Vendors pushed back on execution risk, defect-verification boundaries, and tool-performance liabilities embedded in HPCL’s Mangalore LPG pipeline pigging package.
 
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Announcements

Mar 24: New Page 1 8TotalEnergies exits U.S. offshore wind with Interior Department agreements [TotalEnergies] Details
8IRIS Carbon wins Brazil oil and gas ESG reporting mandate through MZ Consult [IRIS] Details
8SEPC enters oil and gas engineering with 90% acquisition of Abu Dhabi’s Avenir [Enters] Details
8PNGRB makes e-portal filings mandatory from April 1, ends physical applications [PNGRB] Details
8PNGRB prioritises PNG connections for hostel messes, college campuses and community kitchens [PNGRB] Details
8Working committee report on electrification of GTC-GAIL [PNGRB] Details
8Working committee report on electrification of GTC-PIL [PNGRB] Details
8Natural gas pipelines network in India as on December, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Swan Corp appoints Bhagwati Sharma as independent director for five-year term [Swan] Details
8HPCL names oil ministry joint secretary Alok Tripathi as government nominee director [HPCL] Details
8Vedanta says legal challenge in Jaiprakash matter has no material business impact [Vedanta] Details
8Veedol extends Andrew Yule loan repayment deadline by six months [Veedol] Details Details

Parliyamentary Briefs

Mar 24: 8Litigation cases involving oil PSUs pending for more than 10 years [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Mandatory pre-commissioning safety audits conducted by PNGRB [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Domestic natural gas pricing and affordability [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) and energy security [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Commissioning of CBG plants in UP under SATAT [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Subsidy on petroleum products [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Target set for ethanol blending and clean fuels policy [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Operationalization of PNG and CNG in Odisha [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Expansion of LPG coverage under PMUY in Maharashtra and Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Cooking gas connections in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana [Rajya Sabha] Details
8CNG and city gas distribution (CGD) networks in the state of Bihar [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Fire safety at petrol pumps and preventive measures in high-density urban areas [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Setting up of emergency response centre at Hazira in Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Strategic petroleum infrastructure and energy security in Maharashtra [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Expansion of CNG and CGD networks in Maharashtra and Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8India's crude oil reserves and import mix [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Storage capacity of strategic petroleum reserves [Rajya Sabha] Details Details

Daily forward looking import matrices

Mar 25: 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
8All tankers
8Bulk and Dry cargo
Click on Reports for more. Details

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

Mar 25: 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

Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Mar 25: 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

Heated prebid standoff: Jack-up tender collapses after technical opening

Mar 25: 8Find out what really happened in the owners’ revolt
Click on Details for more Details

ONGC’s seismic services award shows razor-thin reverse auction gaps

Mar 25: 8ONGC’s latest seismic services award was not just a price race; it was a stress test of who could underwrite field risk most aggressively.
8The reverse auction spreads were tiny at the top in two contests, yet the published schedule values do not line up cleanly with the visible L1 figures.
Click on Details for more Details

Critical infrastructure at the edge: managing design-life extensions

Mar 25: 8With key offshore process complexes like BPA and BPB already exceeding their design life, and others like Tapti nearing the end, how does a global energy giant maintain safety?
8Find out ONGC’s granular engineering strategy used to keep aging offshore assets functional
Click on Details for more Details

E&P contracting brief for the day

Mar 25: 1) ONGC revitalizes Kalol field with strategic LSTK tender
8ONGC is moving aggressively to upgrade its Ahmedabad Asset, launching a comprehensive Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK) project to handle peak oil and gas production.
8This 13-month fast-track initiative targets critical infrastructure, including new storage capacity and effluent handling, to meet long-term liquid gain profiles.
 
2) ONGC shifts to bespoke logistics to solve Assam rig movement crisis
8ONGC Assam Asset is abandoning conventional low bed trailers after repeated tender failures and persistent operational bottlenecks.
 
3) Cairn tests vendor depth for Rajasthan ALS support through a tightly screened EOI
8Cairn’s Rajasthan ALS EOI looks modest on the surface, but the real story is how it filters technical dependency before the bid stage.
8The notice separates hydraulic oil, HRP spares, and cylinder refurbishment into distinct capability lanes while forcing bidders to disclose whether competence sits in-house, in a consortium, or with subcontractors.
 
4) Oil India’s Rajasthan coring tender: a study in shifting requirements
8When OIL first launched the bid on 17 February 2026, it sought “oriented conventional cores.” By March, the “oriented” requirement was scrapped.
8Was this a strategic simplification to widen the bidder pool, or a reaction to technical feedback from the front lines?
 
Click on Details for  more Details

Tractebel clinches BPCL Bina Refinery energy optimization contract

Mar 25: 8Kavin Engineering sidelined
Click on Details for more Details

Behera wins IOCL Paradip refinery DCU SADC shutdown job

Mar 25: 8Know more
Click on Details for more Details

Winner emerges to lead on CPCL transformation office

Mar 25: 8Know more
Click on Details for more Details

Downstream contracting briefs

Mar 25: 1) API 675 standards: The backbone of NRL’s new PPU project but why are there repeated extensions?
8Precision is non-negotiable. With rated flows and pressures up to 38.22 KG/CM2G, the hunt for Double Diaphragm Controlled Volume Pumps is on. We analyze the "Proven Track Record" requirements that are sidelining all but the most established OEMs.
8No wonder the bidding process got extended
 
2) EIL extends extruder vacuum unit tender twice
8This is not a loose-battery buy but a tightly qualified polypropylene package built around proven liquid ring vacuum equipment and single-point package responsibility.
 
3) BPCL Bina Petchem and Refinery Expansion Project raw water pump tender gets two deadline extensions without visible technical relaxation
8As BPCL ramps up the Bina refinery to 11 MMTPA, EIL is holding a hard line on technical deviations. When a bidder challenged the "General Purpose Process" (GPP) classification for raw water pumps—citing industry-standard GWS/LCWS categories—the response was a blunt "No deviation acceptable". Is this rigid adherence ensuring quality, or is it sidelining specialized vendors in a tightening market?
 
4) BPCL Mumbai Refinery TA 2026 piping packages slip 14 days as three linked shutdown contracts move from 14 March to 28 March
8BPCL has not changed the three-package shutdown logic. It has changed the clock twice. That usually means the market needed more room than the promoter first assumed.

Click on Details for more Details

Integration or isolation? The technical hurdles behind the manali refinery digital roadmap

Mar 25: 8CPCL is demanding a "truly integrated" solution that bridges SAP, Aspen IP21, and SQL databases across five processing units in a single order.
8Why is the company finding it difficult to close the tender?
Click on Details for more Details

The refrigeration challenge: Scale and precision in Pata that a clarification does not address

Mar 25: 8With an estimated weight reaching up to 1,250 MT, the new refrigeration package at GAIL Pata represents a massive logistical and engineering undertaking. This package includes a 3.5 MW screw compressor and critical static equipment positioned at elevations up to 30 m, demanding rigorous structural integrity and OEM-supervised installation.
8A clarification does not seem to say much
Click on Details for more Details

The Dindori cryogenic fabrication race: Five firms move to technical clearance

Mar 25: 8Five engineering firms into the technical evaluation phase for its strategic LNG fuel tank fabrication project in Dindori.
Click on Details for more Details

BPCL awards Malkapur Hyderabad ATF pipeline permissions package

Mar 25: 8An unusually wide 81.5% gap over L2
Click on Details for more Details

New bunker pipeline to link JNPT terminal: massive 427% spread between L1 and L3

Mar 25: 8Find out more
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BPCL SAF project at Mumbai Refinery sees three bid extensions

Mar 25: 8This is as EPCM package complexity tests front-end readiness
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CPCL’s Manali refinery QRA tender stretches forward

Mar 25: 8The tender may be modest in value, but its outcome could shape how refiners convert new layout rules into actionable plant risk decisions.
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Announcements

Mar 25: New Page 1 8Today's update in E&P, midstream-downstream & CGD sector Details
8Centre rolls out landmark pipeline order with deemed approvals to turbocharge PNG expansion and ease of doing business [PIB] Details
8India steps up LPG, PNG and shipping safeguards as West Asia crisis strains energy supply lines [PIB] Details
8Centre issues sweeping 2026 pipeline order to fast-track gas access and phase out LPG in PNG-covered areas [Gazette] Details
8Gujarat Natural Resources closes trading window from April 1 ahead of Q4 and FY26 audited results Details
8NCLT clears Deep Industries’ merger with wholly owned arm Kandla Energy and Chemicals Details
8BPCL commissions 2G bioethanol refinery at Bargarh to boost E20 blending push [BPCL] Details
8BPCL-Sembcorp JV bags Numaligarh Refinery’s 10,000 TPA green hydrogen mandate at record-low tariff [BPCL] Details
8HOEC names Allen Joseph Andrade as CFO from April 1 after N Sivalai Senthilnathan resigns [HOEC] Details
8Welspun Corp shifts 22% EPIC stake between wholly owned arms in SAR 979.9 million intragroup deal [Welspun] Details
8Sealmatic India shuts trading window from April 1 ahead of H2 and FY26 audited results [Sealmatic] Details
8MRPL closes trading window from April 1 ahead of Q4 and FY26 audited results [MRPL] Details
8Hazoor Multi extends Rs 25 crore OCD tenure in shipyard arm by one year, tweaks security structure [HMPL] Details Details

A native desalter technology is being put to test

Mar 25: 8The owner now wants a controlled package supplier capable of reproducing the technology module
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IOCL locks in Valmet as sole-source partner for 2G ethanol maintenance

Mar 25: 8There is a total lack of alternative sources, is what is said
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GAIL launches specialized sub-river pipeline re-routing project

Mar 25: 8It is seeking PMC services for a complex re-routing of the 18" Khanna Nangal Pipeline (KNPL).
8The project requires micro-tunnelling at depths exceeding 6m beneath the Soan River as a permanent mitigation measure against pipeline exposure or damage
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Scaling to 325 KTPA: The technical hurdle of single-train LDPE dominance

Mar 25: 8The tender is going through its fifth extension
8This is because BPCL is pushing the limits of single-train capacity. With a 325 KTPA nameplate target and a modified 36-week BEDP schedule, the technical specifications demand a licensor with a proven 150 KTPA+ track record. For executives, the question is clear: Who has the commercially proven "Film and Injection Molding" technology to handle Ramayapatnam's massive throughput?
8This is even as the risk matrix is re-written to bring in bidders
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector

Mar 25: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section
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Jamshedpur - East Singhbhum District City Gas Distribution Project

Mar 25: 8Project Name: Jamshedpur - East Singhbhum District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details Details

ONGC issues $20 billion global tender for deepwater rigs

Mar 25: 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 war pushes India to accelerate ethanol adoption as alternative fuel Details
 8Hormuz crisis highlights deep structural weaknesses in India’s energy sector Details
 8Industry demands removal of additional VAT on regasified LNG to ease costs Details
 8Damage to Qatar’s gas terminal may impact India for years due to supply constraints Details
 8CNG shortage hits cities like Hyderabad, disrupting transport services Details
 8Mahanagar Gas assures uninterrupted PNG and CNG supply in Maharashtra and Karnataka Details
 8Panic buying triggers rush at Mumbai petrol pumps despite sufficient stocks Details
 8Government advances National Green Hydrogen Mission to boost clean energy Details
 8Delhi allocates Rs.260 crore for free LPG cylinders during Holi and Diwali Details
 8India explores ethanol as a substitute for LPG for cooking solutions Details
 8Commercial LPG supply relief linked to PNG shift, but infrastructure gaps remain Details
 8Government assures adequate petrol, diesel, and LPG supply amid concerns Details
 8Rising demand and limited storage pose risks to India’s LPG supply Details
 8Hormuz tensions drive fuel price increases across Pakistan, China, and Sri Lanka Details
 8Reliance secures Iran oil deal after US waiver approval Details
 8India’s strategic oil reserves sufficient for only about six days Details
 8Experts suggest Russia should increase oil supply to India Details
 8Government assesses India’s preparedness for potential crude shortages Details
 8NeuEN JV wins green hydrogen supply deal from Numaligarh Refinery Details
 8Industry reiterates call to remove VAT on regasified LNG Details
 8TotalEnergies shifts $1 billion investment from offshore wind to US oil and gas Details
 8India clarifies no permission needed for ships transiting Strait of Hormuz Details
 8Cabinet forms groups of secretaries for improved sector coordination Details
 8LPG supply may be restricted where PNG is available but not adopted Details
 8PM Modi calls for unified ‘Team India’ approach amid West Asia crisis Details
 8Nayara shutdown may reduce India’s refining capacity by 8% Details
 8ONGC issues $20 billion global tender for deepwater rigs Details
 8Government fast-tracks city gas infrastructure to boost PNG adoption Details
 8Leaders stress importance of keeping Strait of Hormuz open for global energy Details
 8India-US discussions highlight need to secure Hormuz transit routes Details
 8Gas shortages push low-income households back to traditional fuels Details
 8PNGRB mandates quick gas connections for institutions and community kitchens Details
 8Qatar gas infrastructure damage may increase costs for years Details
 8India plans to source crude and gas from all possible avenues amid crisis Details
 8Government assures strong preparedness with oil reserves and secure LPG shipments Details
 8Oil prices fall below $100 amid ceasefire optimism Details
 8US crude oil and product inventories show an increase Details
 8Saudi Arabia pushes US to extend Iran conflict amid rising oil prices Details
 8India’s petrol pricing system reflects significant tax-driven state differences Details
 8Oil majors are increasingly investing in Libya’s energy sector again Details
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Mar 24: 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

Mar 24: 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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Five Extensions in 64 Days: The Struggle to Keep a Global Tender Alive

Mar 24: 8This PVC licensor tender required five deadline pushes to remain viable, exposing a thin and negotiation-heavy technology market. The pattern suggests that the initial mix of strict qualification and technical demands may have pressed the global licensor pool too hard.
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The 15-year gag: How Lummus Technology’s Novolen IP is guarded by NRL’s multi-decade NDA

Mar 24: 8The legal fortress around Novolen technology
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The multi-million dollar dust: Paradip Refinery’s platinum secret beneath the "spent catalyst" label lies a lucrative recovery operation

Mar 24: 8Find out how legacy risk allocations and sampling protocols—not current market dynamics—might be deciding who wins the platinum.
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Single bidder response tests IOCL Gujarat Refinery’s DMDS localisation push

Mar 24: 8Why is Make in India-in-India not working here?
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IOCL’s nano-scale gambit: Inside the high-stakes build of the BUP

Mar 24: 8IOCL is moving beyond lab-scale experiments with a modular, 1000 L BUP designed for complex hydrocarbon and catalyst development.
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Daily forward looking import matrices

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

Mar 24: 1) CPCL’s UOP technical service extension lands as a Rs 48 lakh sole-bid award for Manali refinery process support
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2) GAIL’s Vijaipur mechanical AMC award splits C2C3, LPG and HVJ packages across three winners
8GAIL’s Vijaipur AMC award is less about labour outsourcing and more about who is willing to price plant-risk into routine mechanical upkeep.
 
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E&P contracting brief for the day

Mar 24: 1) Rig owner creates a rig hire contract for itself: Pushes all responsibility the contractor
8Prabha Energy’s North Karanpura CBM package is not a plain rig hire but a tightly instrumented intervention contract built around measurable rig efficiency and surveillance-led control.
8The tender’s real innovation lies in how it hard-codes payable time, zero-rate exposure and field visibility into a shallow CBM workover campaign expected to run across multiple moves and standby windows
 
2) OIL India’s Duliajan API class G cement tender pushes quality surveillance and compliance deeper into a commodity drilling materials buy
8OIL India’s Duliajan cement tender is less a plain-volume buy and more a field-performance gate for a critical drilling consumable.
8The document hardwires sample-led approval, plant-level inspection rights and invoice-stage local-content discipline into a supply contract that still looks commodity-like on the surface.
 
3) ONGC tightens outcome-based fire and gas AMC at Mehsana CTFs around OEM-linked service control
8ONGC’s Mehsana fire and gas AMC is less a routine maintenance package than a hard-edged uptime contract for a safety-critical installed base.
8The tender narrows execution around Honeywell-linked expertise while loading the contractor with calibration integrity, breakdown response, and no-pay-until-rectification discipline.
 
4) Woodland Works wins OIL India slickline services bid after OIL widened mobilization window and narrowed selected contractor obligations
8OIL did not dilute the core well-intervention burden, but it quietly eased the bidder’s path on mobilization and selected scope edges.
8That made the tender more executable on paper, yet the final pricing spread remained unusually wide.
8The real story sits in what that gap says about vendor risk appetite in Assam-Arunachal field services.
 
5) ONGC’s corrigendum stretches bidder query window for Mumbai High produced-water-conditioning tender, without easing risk terms
8ONGC’s latest move on the Mumbai High produced-water-conditioning tender does not cut securities or relax qualifications.
8Instead, it widens the question window on a brownfield offshore package where the real risk sits in process uncertainty, integration and six-year operability.
 
6) SunPetro upstream business transformation corrigendum removes bid-stage implementation costing and shifts baseline discovery risk back to consultants
8SunPetro has softened the most difficult commercial demand in its upstream transformation tender, but only after bidders challenged how far the brief had run ahead of the facts.
8The corrigendum cuts out speculative implementation costing while making weak SOP maturity and incomplete IT baseline data the consultant’s problem anyway.
 
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Downstream contracting briefs: Technical bids

Mar 24: 1) Thirteen bidders enter BPCL’s Bina refinery expansion composite works race
8The 13-bidder turnout looks broad on paper, but the real contest may be far narrower.
 
2) CPCL’s UOP technical service extension lands as a Rs 48 lakh sole-bid award for Manali refinery process support
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Downstream contracting briefs

Mar 24: 1) BPCL Bina refinery expansion pump package slips by 55 days across six extensions
8A six-time extension on a process pump package is rarely just clerical drift.
 
2) Five extensions stretch IOCL Gujarat Refinery’s AU-I and AU-II corrosion control tender
8Bidders force clarity on tenure and process risk
 
3) Desalter revamp: A 9-day extension rarely matters in isolation
8But it matters when the package is brownfield, limited-circulation, and zero-deviation.
 
4) HPCL extends PMC bid for Visakh bitumen tank project
8The real issue is that core technical clarifications, equipment data and process documents landed late enough to force bidders to revisit execution risk and pricing.
 
5) BPCL’s BPREP LV electric heater tender gets one 8-day extension
8The package still sits inside a tightly controlled, zero-deviation procurement frame with a heavy technical-document burden. That combination can reveal more about bidder appetite and project pacing than the date revision alone.
 
6) HPCL’s Mangalore LPG pipeline pigging tender gets a six-day extension after query clarifications
8The extension is small, but the reason is not. Vendors pushed back on execution risk, defect-verification boundaries, and tool-performance liabilities embedded in HPCL’s Mangalore LPG pipeline pigging package.
 
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Announcements

Mar 24: New Page 1 8TotalEnergies exits U.S. offshore wind with Interior Department agreements [TotalEnergies] Details
8IRIS Carbon wins Brazil oil and gas ESG reporting mandate through MZ Consult [IRIS] Details
8SEPC enters oil and gas engineering with 90% acquisition of Abu Dhabi’s Avenir [Enters] Details
8PNGRB makes e-portal filings mandatory from April 1, ends physical applications [PNGRB] Details
8PNGRB prioritises PNG connections for hostel messes, college campuses and community kitchens [PNGRB] Details
8Working committee report on electrification of GTC-GAIL [PNGRB] Details
8Working committee report on electrification of GTC-PIL [PNGRB] Details
8Natural gas pipelines network in India as on December, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Swan Corp appoints Bhagwati Sharma as independent director for five-year term [Swan] Details
8HPCL names oil ministry joint secretary Alok Tripathi as government nominee director [HPCL] Details
8Vedanta says legal challenge in Jaiprakash matter has no material business impact [Vedanta] Details
8Veedol extends Andrew Yule loan repayment deadline by six months [Veedol] Details Details

Parliyamentary Briefs

Mar 24: 8Litigation cases involving oil PSUs pending for more than 10 years [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Mandatory pre-commissioning safety audits conducted by PNGRB [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Domestic natural gas pricing and affordability [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) and energy security [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Commissioning of CBG plants in UP under SATAT [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Subsidy on petroleum products [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Target set for ethanol blending and clean fuels policy [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Operationalization of PNG and CNG in Odisha [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Expansion of LPG coverage under PMUY in Maharashtra and Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Cooking gas connections in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana [Rajya Sabha] Details
8CNG and city gas distribution (CGD) networks in the state of Bihar [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Fire safety at petrol pumps and preventive measures in high-density urban areas [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Setting up of emergency response centre at Hazira in Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Strategic petroleum infrastructure and energy security in Maharashtra [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Expansion of CNG and CGD networks in Maharashtra and Gujarat [Rajya Sabha] Details
8India's crude oil reserves and import mix [Rajya Sabha] Details
8Storage capacity of strategic petroleum reserves [Rajya Sabha] Details Details
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