Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. Daily forward looking import matrices. ONGC’s pipeline laying project corrigendum hardens five-season rate contract risk. E&P contracting brief: Part I. E&P contracting brief: Part II. E&P contracting brief: Part III. IOCL’s Panipat HDPE EPCC tender stretches over a year as a hard-risk LSTK package struggles to close. Downstream contracting briefs: Results. Downstream contracting briefs: Part I. Downstream contracting briefs: Part II. Disruptive entry: IOCL transitions from project promoter to aggressive PMC bidder. Andhra refinery VCM licensor bid: BPCL-EIL play a game of Chinese checkers. Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. GAIL's ammonia gamble: The byproduct nobody noticed. BPCL Bargarh 2G: A case study on how a project should never be built. Announcements. India secures 70% of crude oil imports outside Strait of Hormuz: petroleum ministry. Dahej Vagra District City Gas Distribution Project. Dahod District City Gas Distribution Project. NRL: Sky high chemical produciton ambition. Paradip refinery petchem expansion: Final timelines. Refinery optimization: Why did a well known consultant did not make it. EIL is battle ready now. The story is about why IOCL is jostling for space for a small PMC job?. Andhra VCM licensing: Diluted conditions. The order that says the quiet part out loud. Day 12: The Hormuz crisis and India’s fertilizer sector, the largest consumer of gas in India. The FDI easing and oil & gas: Two frameworks, one missing conversation. Composite works for Bina revamp: Mandatory digital management systems shift information technology costs directly onto project contractors . Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Bvisahal only vendor among 5 to be disqualifed. ONGC’s offshore bundled drilling services: A maze of amendmends. Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. Announcements. Daily forward looking import matrices. India's Reliance to maximize LPG production at Jamnagar refinery. South Goa District City Gas Distribution Project. Bhavnagar District City Gas Distribution Project.
Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day
Mar 12: 8Get all the latest tenders announced across the oil and gas industry today. 8Discover new procurement opportunities from key public and private sector players. Click on Reports for more.
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Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day
Mar 12: 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
Mar 12: 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
Mar 12: 8ONGC’s pipeline laying project has surfaced as a revised five-season rate-contract package, but no technical bid opening sheet or admitted bidder list is visible in the document set. 8The real tension sits in ONGC’s attempt to disaggregate legacy LSTK execution while still making the marine spread contractor carry engineering, survey, FIM interface, shutdown and logistics risk. 8What remains unresolved is whether bidders will absorb that asymmetry cleanly or price it back through conservative offshore execution rates. Click on Details for moreDetails
E&P contracting brief: Part I
Mar 12: 1) ONGC’s NH, MH and B&S offshore flow arms tender packs supply, fabrication and instrumentation risk into one three-year ARC 8The contract tries to buy faster field response by forcing one vendor to own survey, fabrication, hookup, testing and reinstatement across live offshore assets. 8That may sharpen reliability execution, but it also raises the stakes on bidder depth, documentation discipline and contractual clarity.
2) Oil India Limited’s Assam-Arunachal SPF tender pushes wellsite production risk outward while tightening the field-operations entry bar 8It is outsourcing a large slice of remote wellsite production discipline in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. 8The tender ties 5,000 psi hardware, dual-fuel heating, metering, flare setup, on-site analysis, and continuous operations into one execution package that could narrow the real bidder pool fast.
3) Cairn Oil & Gas opens multi-asset intelligent pigging EOI with five-year execution flexibility 8The EOI separates MFL/conventional UT from HRUT and quietly introduces a five-year execution horizon that could reshape how specialist inspection vendors read capacity, sequencing and revenue visibility. 8The real test will emerge when the later tender converts this broad technical ambition into enforceable scope, interface and risk language.
4) Rajasthan-Gujarat core services extends the bid clock, rewrites the price format and keeps the risk-loaded service bundle intact 8The structure still forces bidders to price an integrated coring, handling, preservation and onsite analysis package under a hard buyer-controlled commercial frame.
5) OIL India extends 3000 HP drilling rig O&M after scope wording and price-bid revisions 8Find out more
Mar 12: 1) OIL Rajasthan’s mobile steam generator tender raises entry barriers with a high-security, crew-inclusive service model 8OIL Rajasthan is not merely hiring steam units; it is structuring a tightly controlled upstream field-services contract that rewards only balance-sheet-ready operators.
2) Only one bidder cleared OIL’s integrated workover HSE screen as bundled compliance scope tightened entry barriers 8OIL’s workover HSE tender looks less like a routine safety consultancy package and more like a field-control contract with embedded statutory and operational obligations. 8That may explain why only one of four participating bidders qualified, even though the available documents do not disclose the rejection grounds.
3) Oil India Limited’s latest corrigendum keeps Andaman imaging tender under buyer-drafted ATC supremacy 8Oil India Limited has issued the latest corrigendum for its Andaman offshore seismic imaging consultancy tender, with revised ATC documents again placed at the centre of bid compliance. 8The structure keeps price firm, personnel continuity tight and contractor-side execution risk broad, even as the visible corrigendum text does not spell out every underlying clause revision.
4) ONGC Ahmedabad-Mehsana artificial lift services tender : Update 8ONGC’s Ahmedabad Asset and Mehsana Asset artificial lift services tender has moved into corrigendum mode and now stands extended. 8The real shift is not the date extension alone but the rewrite of mobilization into a 60-day obligation tied to different not-before dates for the two assets.
5) Oil India extends core cutting and onsite analysis tender after repeated pre-bid calendar resets 8Oil India did not change the risk spine of its four-year core cutting services tender, but it kept stretching the calendar around bidder engagement.
Mar 12: 1) ONGC Assam Asset ties compressor uptime to contractor-led maintenance discipline under a tightly supervised three-year O&M model 8ONGC’s Assam Asset is not just hiring operators for a mobile air compressor; it is outsourcing uptime stewardship on an owned high-pressure package with a dense maintenance script.
2) ONGC tests a rate-contract model for offshore scrap evacuation at Nhava and Pipavav supply bases 8ONGC’s scrap EOI is really a yard-throughput document aimed at unclogging two western offshore logistics nodes before accumulation turns into an operational drag. 8The interesting twist is that the corporation is floating a long-term rate-contract idea while still keeping annual material allocation tied to open MSTC e-auctions.
3) ONGC’s latest WSS Ahmedabad corrigendum drops a qualification gate but keeps the three-year execution regime tight 8Find out more
4) SunPetro’s Bhaskar-1 field O&M tender stretches to 06 April 2026 a 8SunPetro has not merely pushed back a deadline on Bhaskar-1. 8The bulletin trail points to a deeper rewrite of who controls key operating decisions and how reimbursable field inputs will flow through the contract.
IOCL’s Panipat HDPE EPCC tender stretches over a year as a hard-risk LSTK package struggles to close
Mar 12: 8IOCL’s Panipat HDPE package was never a routine petrochemical bid, and its 18 extensions show why. Click on Details for moreDetails
Downstream contracting briefs: Results
Mar 12: 1) Kirloskar wins BPCL Kochi polypropylene cooling water pump package 8What the award reveals about vendor shaping, execution pressure, and hidden schedule risk sits beneath the surface.
2) Friends Earth Movers wins IOCL Haldia Refinery LRVP project and DMF facility installation award 8What kind of spread did it have against its competitors?
3) Hexane project: Why did just one bidder qualify? 8Find out more Click on Details for moreDetails
Downstream contracting briefs: Part I
Mar 12: 1) Biomass pellets: Getting them for ethanol plants is not that easy 8As IOCL is finding out to its chagrin
2) IOCL specialty chemicals and pharma KSM/API TEFS EOI ties refinery feedstocks to higher-value molecules 8But timing drift now clouds sequencing
3) GMPL extends asset valuation and impairment support tender but holds firm on chartered accountant-led eligibility 8Click on Details for more
4) BPCL’s BPREP LV electric heater tender uses zero-deviation discipline, NDA-gated technical access and a service-floor pricing trap 8Find out more
5) HPCL’s Mumbai Refinery biodiversity tender puts a specialist EIA-critical study through reverse auction discipline 8That mismatch between ecological complexity and platform-style price discovery could shape who bids, and how aggressively they price, long before fieldwork begins.
Mar 12: 1) BPCL’s crude-unit RTO tender pushes bidders from model supply into APC-linked performance risk 8BPCL is not buying another refinery dashboard. It is asking vendors to carry the integration burden from historian to APC, and then prove 2.0 cents/bbl value without any upside share.
2) HPCL’s Mangalore-Hassan-Cherlapalli G-NH3 pipeline study slips as a three-extension bid tests market appetite 8The repeated deferral suggests the real contest is not over timeline alone, but over who is willing to underwrite a still-fluid technical scope. 3) IOCL extends PRPC Toluene extraction licensor tender twice as scope rigidity meets a specialist bidder market 8Underneath, the bid record shows a specialist market testing a wide licensor scope against an owner that has largely refused to reopen commercial and technical risk boundaries.
4) IOCL R&D extends specialty chemicals, API and KSM vendor-identification EOI 8The extra window raises questions about bidder depth, document burden, and how quickly IOCL can build a usable specialty-manufacturing panel.
5) CPCL’s digital logbooks tender for CPCL Manali extended 8This tests the depth of the refinery-operations software market
6) GSPL’s Mundra-Mandvi & other connectivity RoU/RoW tender gets extension 8The extension is not just a calendar tweak; it lands on a corridor-readiness package that mixes survey, land, statutory, environmental, and legal burden in one bid. Bidder queries show discomfort with how the qualification and scoring architecture shapes the field.
Disruptive entry: IOCL transitions from project promoter to aggressive PMC bidder
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Andhra refinery VCM licensor bid: BPCL-EIL play a game of Chinese checkers
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Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector
Mar 12: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section Click on Reports for more DetailsDetails
GAIL's ammonia gamble: The byproduct nobody noticed
Mar 12: 8India's gas giant wants to make ammonia at a scale that defies logic. 8So why is GAIL building an under-sized ammonia unit? Click on Details for moreDetails
BPCL Bargarh 2G: A case study on how a project should never be built
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Announcements
Mar 12: New Page 18Manali Petro halts Plant-1 after CPCL stops propylene supply under government LPG priority order [MPL] Details 8Policy and Economic Report: Oil & Gas Market- February 2026 [FIPI] Details 8Petroleum products pipeline MIS - Month of December 2025 [PNGRB] Details 8PNGRB floats tender for 12 tablet kits with Pencil Pro and Smart Folio via GeM [PNGRB] Details 8ATGL flags gas supply curbs as government order prioritises CNG, PNG and fertilizers [ATGL] Details 8Appointment of Shri Bhupinder Kumar as Government Nominee Director [OIL] Details 8Government prioritises natural gas supply to fertilizer plants at 70% of past use [MGL] Details 8Eastspring crosses 5% stake in Mahanagar Gas through open market purchase [MGL] Details 8HOEC says it is unaware of any reason behind recent share price movement [HOEC] Details 8Jindal Drilling says no undisclosed event behind recent surge in trading volume [JD] Details 8CareEdge Global assigns BBB+/Stable foreign currency issuer rating to Adani Ports [Adani Ports] Details 8Desco Infratech promoter Pankaj Desai buys shares via open market transaction [Desco] DetailsDetails
India secures 70% of crude oil imports outside Strait of Hormuz: petroleum ministry
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