New Page 18NGC enters ethane shipping through joint venture with MOL, Japan [OPAL] Details 8Request for proposal (RFP) for sale of natural gas from CB-ONN-2002/3 block (Manipur Field) through e-bidding [DGH] Details 8Request for proposal (RFP) for sale of crude oil from Ravva and ONGC blocks through e-bidding [DGH] Details 8Clarification on news report regarding alleged receipt of Russian oil at Jamnagar refinery [RIL] Details 8Update on well Mori-5 – Mori field operated by Deep Industries Limited [ONGC] Details 8Change in senior management personnel [IOCL] DetailsDetails
8The 76.2% gap between L1 and L2 is large enough to raise a technical question: did bidders price the same audit effort and deliverable obligations. The real story now shifts from “who won” to “what is locked in the clauses” to protect certification timelines and audit depth. Click on Details for more
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IOCL’s Mathura refinery topo survey technical stage filters hard, with only six of 17 bidders clearing 8IOCL’s Mathura refinery has framed a “survey” tender like a design-grade digital engineering package, not a map-making exercise — IOCL/Mathura refinery. The technical bar sits as much in calibration proofs, control networks, and raw-data handover as in field execution. The technical qualification split hints at a procurement strategy that narrows the vendor pool before price ever comes into play. Click on Details for moreDetails
8This is a performance-led EPCC, not a routine environmental add-on. The tender language quietly shifts the hardest risks—brownfield integration, safety governance, and residual emissions outcomes—onto the contractor. The technical bid field is active, but the acceptability bar will decide whether this turns into a price contest or a compliance filter. Click on Details for more
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1) PBFS dryer and purification study bid rolls three times 8The bid timeline tells its own story: the due date shifts in a neat weekly cadence. The bigger question for bidders is whether the underlying scope and governance stack are as clean as the platform workflow suggests.
2) IOCL’s Paradip refinery uses auto-extensions to keep the SADC/DCU mechanical shutdown job alive 8The bid settings reveal a participation threshold and a three-step auto-extension design that can materially reshape competition without rewriting the tender. The most consequential line may be the one that freezes PQC evaluation to the original deadline even as dates move.
3) Owner extends panipat 2G ethanol feed dust removal LSTK tender 8The owner has not however softened any of the underlying tender conditions. The extension quietly preserves a key control lever: PQC experience is still judged against the original submission date, not the extended one.
4) MRPL extends GeM tender timeline for co-processing/AFR processing of solid waste 8MRPL’s 10-day extension is less about time and more about forcing a compliance-ready bidder pool into a tight, auditable waste disposal chain. The tender’s 60:40 split award at matched L1 pricing quietly rewires bidder strategy and margin tolerance. The real risk sits in measurement control and dispute posture, not in the trucking headlines.
5) CBG feasibility tender extended 8This CBG feasibility tender is not a desk study; it is forcing bidders to earn their conclusions with NABL-backed MSW sampling, and it treats that field evidence as pass-fail.
6) GAIL tightens red-card durations and deletes suspension procedure in LLDPE and new Butene handling contract 8GAIL’s latest corrigendum rewires the bidder-governance playbook more than the plant-handling scope. Repeat “instances” now map into fixed red-card timelines, while the suspension pathway is removed altogether. The bigger story is how this shifts the balance between interim control and terminal penalties in a 24-month petrochemical handling service.
7) HPCL extends nitrogen PSA AMC bid by five days as single-seller structure tightens competition 8HPCL has pushed the closing date on its Molsieves-make nitrogen PSA AMC, but the real story sits inside the bid mechanics.
1) Gail tightens the vendor funnel for RT Bidadi–Poonapalli pipeline EIA tapoff 8GAIL is buying more than an EIA report, it is buying regulatory resilience through who it allows to bid and how it locks them into the lifecycle. The tender’s credential gates and post-bid evidence discipline quietly shrink the playing field before pricing even begins.
2) HPCL LMBU bearing cooling water tender tightens site-control and JV risk backstops 8It is written as an execution-governed tender, not just an equipment buy. The tender pack quietly turns access control and safety readiness into enforceable commercial levers that can decide who mobilises fastest and who bleeds time at the gate
3) Indian oil’s panipat PBR E&I tender pairs reverse auction with an explicit “no interest” dispute stance 8The bid is structured to force speed-to-site and shrink the eligible vendor pool before price even comes into play. A standalone clause quietly rewrites dispute economics by trying to erase the time-value of money on claims, even if disputes drag. The technical undercurrent is hazardous-area and interface discipline—where one missing certificate or battery-limit ambiguity can turn a three-month promise into a commissioning trap.
4) Bid due date extended as EIL tightens zero-deviation pump sourcing for NRL’s polypropylene unit project at Numaligarh refinery 8The clarifications show a procurement team willing to accept some standardisation moves, while shutting down operating-window deviations that often slip through in low-flow service. The real story is what the extension is buying—time to clean the datasheets, or time to rescue participation under a narrowed, local-supplier-only gate.
5) Corrigendum tightens flexibility levers for IOCL leadership competency framework 8IOCL has used a late-stage GeM corrigendum to introduce contract elasticity and a second billing lane that most QCBS bidders won’t model by default. The changes look procedural, but they materially reshape how five-year resourcing, invoicing discipline, and scope drift risk will be priced. The real signal sits in how these levers interact with IOCL’s tool-provenance demands and schedule-control rewrite.
1) Mehsana asset’s CSS wells EOI turns hollow glass sphere buying into a lab-gated well integrity screen 8They are using a hollow glass sphere EOI to pre-wire cement slurry performance into vendor eligibility for css wells, not just to collect quotes. 8The published HPHT conditioning gates and particle-size caps quietly decide who can even compete once the real tender lands. 8What looks like a routine market check is setting up a technical choke-point that could reshape the domestic vendor pool.
2) Shreeji Construction wins ONGC Cambay asset rig-site civil works rate contract as L1, with L2 only 6.9% higher 8ONGC’s Cambay asset has awarded the rig-enablement civil rate contract to Shreeji construction, but the real story is in how the bid curve splits after L2. 8The tender structure hard-shifts inflation and multi-site execution risk onto contractors through firm pricing and work-order level schedule enforcement. 8The award numbers hint at one aggressive price cluster and a second tier that priced a very different risk reality.
3) Foam concentrate and UPS scope contradictions sharpen bidder risk in ONGC’s Ahmedabad asset fire protection revamp 8Participating bidders are flagging scope drift that changes the engineering basis of the foam system and the pump house footprint. 8ONGC’s answers keep pointing back to discipline documents rather than issuing a clean “in/out” confirmation, leaving interpretation risk inside the bid. 8With bid dates stretching into January 2026, the vendor pool is being tested on document-control discipline as much as on pricing.
4) Qualified–disqualified split hardens after spec reset on top drive torque in 1000 HP mobile drilling rig charter hire 8Oil india limited has quietly softened a critical top drive performance point, but it has not diluted the electrical-only philosophy that drives capex and compliance cost. 8The participated bidder pool now shows a clean qualification split, with disqualification reasons still opaque in the published lifecycle extracts. 8The unanswered “will review” items are where the next risk-transfer surprise can still land for bidders.
5) ONGC tightens bid governance for coil tubing services across three basins 8ONGC’s latest corrigendum rewrites the controlling buyer-added terms layer and pulls integrity pact compliance into the bid submission itself. 8The technical tender underneath is already high-friction, with five-year coil tubing charter expectations blended with real-time monitoring and vehicle tracking requirements. 8The real question is whether the corrigendum’s overwritten terms and unseen attachments quietly change risk allocation more than bidders expect.
8ONGC’s helicopter charter tender looks standard on paper, until bidder clarifications expose leasing-market constraints and DGCA-linked operational limits. 8The most consequential shift is not in aircraft specs, but in contract architecture—where a 3-year plan gives way to a 5-year reality. 8The remaining answers show where ONGC holds firm and where operators may still be carrying execution ambiguity. Click on Details for moreDetails
8OIL’s Baghewala drilling tender didn’t just qualify bidders; it exposed how the promoter is engineering the vendor pool through consortium and sister-subsidiary gateways. 8Behind the “qualified vs disqualified” split sits a clause stack that widens eligibility but tightens recourse through agreements, security undertakings, and payment governance. 8The real story is how participation pressure reshaped the bid architecture without softening the technical control points Click on Details for moreDetails
8The operator has quietly re-cut the clock on helicopter mobilisation, compressing readiness from 90 to 60 days while keeping LD teeth intact. 8That one-month squeeze reshapes which operators can credibly price the job without betting on post-award fixes. 8Pawan hans remains qualified, but the real story is how the amended timelines re-draw the risk map Click on Details for moreDetails
8Behind the calendar shift sits a tougher message: bidders can clarify scope edges, but the standard risk clauses are largely non-negotiable. 8One technical line in the replies—internal FBE not being envisaged—could quietly reshape pipelay pricing and execution logic in a package already heavy on interfaces. Click on Details for moreDetails
8They are being sold as a standard offshore EPC, but the real action sits in how ONGC is hard-wiring compliance rejections and design-finality risk into the bid. 8Platform tie-backs and multi-length export lines set up an interface-heavy schedule game, while “tentative” protection parameters are left for contractors to lock during detail engineering. 8The bidders who price this like a routine fabrication-installation job may discover the real margin erosion only after vendor packages and shutdown logic collide offshore. Click on Details for moreDetails
8Private developers hold 26,660 MW Pumped Storage Projects (PSP) versus 13,273.5 MW HEP. That’s a +100.9% PSP over HEP within private portfolios. The buildout implies a merchant and ancillary bias where storage can monetise peak spreads and system services. Grid operators should plan for fast-ramping private PSP commanding dispatch at peak. Click on Details for moreDetails
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