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IndianOil's Hopetown LNG: A never-before incident happened.  Pay for the grid, without the grid: Gas regulator’s tariff plan draws industry backlash.  Gas demand stood high as the gulf crisis esclated and prices skyrocketed: Does it prove the hypothesis wrong?.  Fresh impetus: One ammonia-urea unit gets going.  Speciality chemicals is where IOCL is going: Maleic anhydride, butanediol and tetrahydrofuran.  OIL's Beicip-Franlab H1 bid puts four ultra-deepwater blocks under scrutiny.  FACT's caprolactam plant: Who will take on an obsolete technology?.  Our E&P briefs.  Our Downstream briefs: Part I.  Our Downstream briefs: Part II.  Daily forward looking import matrices.   Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day.  Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day.  Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector.  Another fire incident at Tengakhat: LPG cylinder explosion at Oil India's No. 4 Kharikatia oil well canteen.  The Rs 7,615 crore gas question.  BP influence evident: ONGC's three-design project requirement puts early engineering effort under scrutiny.  Rs 800 crore in offshore vessel and rig awards for ONGC work.  Spot the difference: How LNG sourcing split India’s two biggest city gas players.  Adani's hell-for-leather run: An insatiable capacity to take risks.  Rajasthan refinery: A return to active tendering.  Coal India Gasification Project: Updates.  E&P outfit with 100 million barrels in reserve: One lost year.  BPCL's KPMG award: Who carries the real risk?.  ONGC's Rs 76.18 crore CBM fracturing L1 exposes a 45% bidding divide.  BPCL Kochi turnaround: Has Jecon priced the risk too low?.  ONGC's Rs 50.50 crore Mumbai High L1 bid exposes 194% pricing gulf.  Indian Oil's toluene extraction award: How did Toyo get it so wrong?.  BPCL's Kochi biogas project: Who pays for contractor failure?.  ONGC's 225°C casing requirement narrows the field for HPHT drilling under Samudra Manthan.  Biogas tenders: Unable to decide which feedstock will work.  HPCL plastic pyrolysis oil: Did tender conditions invite cancellation?.  IndianOil's biomass extruder: Who guarantees performance after technology transfer?.  Our E&P briefs: Part I.  Our E&P briefs: Part II.  Our E&P briefs: Part III.  Our E&P briefs: Part IV.  Our Downstream briefs: Part I.  Our Downstream briefs: Part II.  Lubricant revamp: One hand tied.  

IndianOil's Hopetown LNG: A never-before incident happened

Nov 10: 8And it has got the industry buzzing
8What really happened that caused such a massive distortion?
8In what is a massive A 25-year gamble?
Click on Details for more
Details

Pay for the grid, without the grid: Gas regulator’s tariff plan draws industry backlash

Nov 10: In one crucial spot, that would lift the cost of moving gas from about Rs 6 to Rs 54 per unit
8Unconstitutional, screams one complainant
Click on Details for more Details

Gas demand stood high as the gulf crisis esclated and prices skyrocketed: Does it prove the hypothesis wrong?

Nov 10: Does this mean that "unaffordability" was an aritifical notion created by analysts
8No quite, it seems
Can we write this through? Details

Fresh impetus: One ammonia-urea unit gets going

Nov 10: 8The investment process has started
8Find out more
Click on Details
Details

Speciality chemicals is where IOCL is going: Maleic anhydride, butanediol and tetrahydrofuran

Nov 10: 8So find out more on what the company’s plans are
8Hopefully like they started doing with new projects, they will not mess up the run up this time in too much of fine print
Click on Details for more
Details

OIL's Beicip-Franlab H1 bid puts four ultra-deepwater blocks under scrutiny

Nov 10: 8Price raises a larger question about the cost of delivering such an integrated subsurface study.
Click on Details for more
Details

FACT's caprolactam plant: Who will take on an obsolete technology?

Nov 10: 8It wants a takeover of a 50,000 MTA unit
8But will there be enough takers?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs

Nov 10: 8ONGC's twin CBG projects carry a 13-year gap in operating obligations
8OIL extends 27,000-shot seismic tender to 16 November, retains 45-day mobilisation trap
8OIL extends 15-site gas monitoring tender by seven days, retains 72-hour acceptance trap
8ONGC extends Mumbai High TTBP tender by 56 days, retains offshore standby risk
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part I

Nov 10: 8IndianOil's biogas project: Is 10% cost accuracy realistic in the first feasibility attempt? And there is a feedstock gamble there too
8Bharat Petroleum's Bina catalyst tender: Can the lowest bidder still lose?
8BPCL's reactor-regenerator tender: Why is the company softening its terms?
8BPCL's pipeline augmentation: Why restrict competition and then extend deadlines?
8CPCL's heater tender: Why does EIL restrict competition?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part II

Nov 10: 8Numaligarh Refinery's coke evacuation gamble: Is a logistics crisis brewing?
8BPCL's international LPG consultancy: Is the experience bar too high?
8BPCL Kochi HAZOP study: Is the consultant being asked to price the unknown?
8200 TPD Gorakhpur CBG: Two bidders, for which the deadline had to be extended five times
Click on Details for more
Details

Daily forward looking import matrices

Nov 10: 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

Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Nov 10: 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

Nov 10: 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

Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Nov 10: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
Click on Reports for more Details Details

Another fire incident at Tengakhat: LPG cylinder explosion at Oil India's No. 4 Kharikatia oil well canteen

Nov 10: For reference purposes the website carries here the following Newsclips (These are public domain newsclips and the website is not responsible for their content):
8Croatia pipeline damage disrupts oil supply to Serbia Details
8Trump says he backs energy permitting bill on eve of vote Details
8Strathcona, Greenfire agree to oil sands merger Details
8ADNOC, SNOC to explore gas partnership Details
8Which US oil major produced the most in Q3 2026? Details
8QatarEnergy, Chevron expand exploration partnership offshore Namibia Details
8Hungary's MOL Group sees profit surge on bumper refining margins Details
8Oil experiences sharpest weekly decline in months Details
8Trump hints US is holding back from striking Iran Details
8Bond yields fall as oil prices soften amid easing geopolitical concerns Details
8Stock markets end higher amid easing crude oil prices and buying in banks Details
8New Delhi wakes to toxic smog after Diwali as firecrackers add to seasonal pollution crisis Details
8US crude oil imports from Venezuela hit a nine-year peak in July 2026 Details
8Trump seeks exit, Iran remains defiant: Key issues holding up peace deal as Qatar brokers talks Details
8Middle East oil price war heralds post-conflict glut: Bousso Details
8Govt extends OALP-X and XI bidding deadlines again to Dec 10 Details
856% of global business leaders expect disruptions to severely hit operations: KPMG Details
8US Secretary of State Rubio to discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and more with G7 allies in France Details
8Oil falls at open as Trump says fresh Iran attacks are 'unlikely' Details
8Saudi Aramco building in Riyadh suffers minor damage after Houthi attack Details
8Gas hunt: RIL, ONGC, BP may share $1-billion infrastructure facility Details
8Murphy Oil bets on Israeli gas near Leviathan Details
8Saudi pipeline attacked as OPEC output climbs to 90% of pre-war levels Details
8Europe's power prices jump to 2022 high as wind and solar falter Details
8COP31 opens in Antalya with a UN push for faster climate action Details
8Iran moves to control oil terminals in China, leak shows Details
8Oil sinks to $94 as Iran's $8 billion Hormuz deal heads to Trump Details
8IEA backs electrification efforts at COP31 climate summit Details
8Global LNG markets face a winter of extreme uncertainty Details
8Vedanta Oil and Gas advances exploration in KG deepwater block Details
8Commercial green methanol bunkering to begin at Indian port this month Details
8Another fire incident at Tengakhat: LPG cylinder explosion at Oil India's No. 4 Kharikatia oil well canteen Details
8LPG price hike adds to woes of Bengaluru auto drivers Details
8India's ONGC set to take control of two key Venezuelan oil projects Details
8Karnataka stands firm on ethanol row: Minister Rizwan Arshad says oil companies blended up to 31.2% in petrol, demands choice of E10, E20, E30 and pure petrol for consumers Details
8Indian Oil plans its own fleet amid global shipping disruptions Details
8Rs. 84,084 crore incentive on offer, but India's deep-sea oil exploration bids delayed again Details
8Oil India independent director Motilal Meena appointed to Numaligarh Refinery board Details
8EIL director highlights changing chemicals trade map at ADIPEC 2026 roundtable Details
You can also click on Newsclips for more Details

The Rs 7,615 crore gas question

Nov 09: 8A gas trading business nearly doubled its revenue while selling less to outside buyers.
How? Details

BP influence evident: ONGC's three-design project requirement puts early engineering effort under scrutiny

Nov 09: 8And the entry barriers have been raised sky high
8So a designer will stay independently with a PMC from here on
Click  on Details for more
Details

Rs 800 crore in offshore vessel and rig awards for ONGC work

Nov 09: 8Find out who won them and what the deals are about.
Click on Details for more Details

Spot the difference: How LNG sourcing split India’s two biggest city gas players

Nov 09: 8Both were hit by the West Asia LNG shock.
8How hard depended on choices made long before it. Details

Adani's hell-for-leather run: An insatiable capacity to take risks

Nov 09: No matter what, the group contines to mobilize big money and take big risks
8It may turn out to be a fail run eventually, but the group keeps moving at a furious rate
Click on Details for more Details

Rajasthan refinery: A return to active tendering

Nov 09: 8But why is it asking for a 9 MMTPA design for a VDU from people who are less experienced?
8And the package has crude distillation, deep-cut vacuum distillation and liquefied petroleum gas treating. Yet no consoritums are allowed to bid
8Also proven licensors may yet get disqualified for a number of reasons
8And there is a hidden challenge that not many will pass through, we tell you what it is
8It looks like it is aimed at a very select group of companies
Click on Details for more
Details

Coal India Gasification Project: Updates

Nov 09: 8Coal India's massive water gas shift tender: Is competition being restricted?
8Coal India's acid gas removal tender: Who carries the integration risk?
8Coal India's sulphur recovery unit: Can licensors guarantee an unsettled feed?
8Coal India's methanation tender: Why keep competition so narrow? Also is it a catalyst gamble?
Click on Details for more
Details

E&P outfit with 100 million barrels in reserve: One lost year

Nov 09: 8Drilling is being held back, and one of its offshore assets is malfunctioning
Click on Details for more Details

BPCL's KPMG award: Who carries the real risk?

Nov 09: 8KPMG has emerged as the reported top-ranked bidder for BPCL's lubricants supply chain consultancy at Rs 4.84 crore.
8But the contract makes part of the consultant's earnings dependent on savings from initiatives that BPCL must approve and implement.
8What happens when the consultant delivers the solution but the client controls whether it succeeds?
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's Rs 76.18 crore CBM fracturing L1 exposes a 45% bidding divide

Nov 09: 8Fracturing jobs: Seros is now plugging the gap with oil multinationals
8And this is remarkable progress
Click on Details for more
Details

BPCL Kochi turnaround: Has Jecon priced the risk too low?

Nov 09: 8What is unknown is whether the price difference evidence of superior execution efficiency, or has the contractor taken on more risk than the numbers suggest?
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's Rs 50.50 crore Mumbai High L1 bid exposes 194% pricing gulf

Nov 09: 8The deeper question is what the bidding spread reveals about the commercial risks of replacing critical process equipment.
Click on Details for more
Details

Indian Oil's toluene extraction award: How did Toyo get it so wrong?

Nov 09: 8Has the winner found an execution advantage, or will the winning price face a tougher test once detailed engineering begins?
Click on Details for more
Details

BPCL's Kochi biogas project: Who pays for contractor failure?

Nov 09: 8This now going to get common in biogas projects
8The tender explicitly attributes extended consultancy requirements to poor performance and financial difficulties involving the turnkey contractor.
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's 225°C casing requirement narrows the field for HPHT drilling under Samudra Manthan

Nov 09: 8And names seven technology providers
Click on Details for more
Details

Biogas tenders: Unable to decide which feedstock will work

Nov 09: 8So some have begun asking for two entirely different feedstock options
8These feedstocks require materially different preprocessing and residue-management arrangements.
8Clearly bio-gas is the buzzword but clarity is far from certain
Click on Details for more
Details

HPCL plastic pyrolysis oil: Did tender conditions invite cancellation?

Nov 09: 8This is an interesting case which needs further investigation
Click on Details for more
Details

IndianOil's biomass extruder: Who guarantees performance after technology transfer?

Nov 09: 8IndianOil has demonstrated its biomass extrusion technology at Gorakhpur and now wants external manufacturers to commercialise it.
8Yet the present documents do not specify binding guarantees for energy consumption, equipment durability or pretreatment performance.
8Who will carry the responsibility if commercial installations fail to deliver expected results?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs: Part I

Nov 09: 8ONGC's 20-year biogas contract shifts feedstock failure risk to contractors: Who will then guarantee that?
8OIL's wireline tender puts entire logging tool group under zero-payment threat
8ONGC's helicopter tender imposes 8,640-hour experience barrier on bidders and an age barrier
8OIL's Rs 7.99 crore drilling renovation tender hides a post-design payment trap
8OIL's three-year reservoir testing tender hides a costly re-survey trap
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs: Part II

Nov 09: 8OIL's Madhuban surge consultancy sees 286.4% bid gap as Elazra emerges L1
8ONGC's grid earthing contract goes 17.8% below estimate, but execution risks remain
8ONGC withdraws two compressor pricing formats as 13 November deadline approaches
8OIL's extended crude benchmarking tender demands independent Platts and Argus compatibility
8OIL extends eight-compressor tender amid zero-cost capacity expansion clause
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs: Part III

Nov 09: 8OIL extends 4.5 MMSCMD flare tender, retains Rs 69.37 crore eligibility barrier
8ONGC's Donaldson filter tender imposes part-number-specific price parity
8Difference between life and death: OIL's Rs 94.18 crore Pawan Hans award follows major Medevac concessions
8ONGC's rig walking plan: Is this a hair brained idea?
8Prabha Energy's CBM pipeline tender exposes two conflicting completion clocks, and a landowner trap
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Details

Our E&P briefs: Part IV

Nov 09: 8OTPC's 726.6 MW Palatana tender transfers river-water infrastructure risks to O&M contractor
8ONGC's 11-pipeline corrosion tender: Fresh developments
8OIL seismic digitalisation tender extended by 85 days without easing qualification barriers
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part I

Nov 09: 8BPCL heater revamp: Why only Engineers India Limited?
8BPCL Mumbai refinery turnaround: Who bears the downtime risk?
8IndianOil's Haldia steam project: Engineering before approvals?
8Hindustan Petroleum's global catalyst tender: Why restrict competition?
8IndianOil's multi-project supervision contract: Can pipeline specialists handle refinery and gas infrastructure?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part II

Nov 09: 8BPCL's reactor-regenerator tender: Who pays for faulty engineering?
8Bharat Coal Gasification's water tender: Underlying assumptions keep changing
8CPCL heater tender: Why contractors are questioning engineering and site risks set by EIL
8Indian Oil's inspection tool tender: Why extend deadlines without fixing eligibility contradictions?
8IndianOil's Guwahati petcoke boiler disposal: Why is an 80%-completed project being dismantled?
8Bharat Petroleum's Tuticorin project: Is 30 m drilling enough?
8IndianOil Paradip turnaround award: Why did two bidders quote almost identical prices?
Click on Details for more
Details

Lubricant revamp: One hand tied

Nov 09: 8The designer has to work with original information missing
8He must reconstruct the technical baseline while remaining exposed to penalties for serious design mistakes.
Click on Details for more
Details

IndianOil's Hopetown LNG: A never-before incident happened

Nov 10: 8And it has got the industry buzzing
8What really happened that caused such a massive distortion?
8In what is a massive A 25-year gamble?
Click on Details for more
Details

Pay for the grid, without the grid: Gas regulator’s tariff plan draws industry backlash

Nov 10: In one crucial spot, that would lift the cost of moving gas from about Rs 6 to Rs 54 per unit
8Unconstitutional, screams one complainant
Click on Details for more Details

Gas demand stood high as the gulf crisis esclated and prices skyrocketed: Does it prove the hypothesis wrong?

Nov 10: Does this mean that "unaffordability" was an aritifical notion created by analysts
8No quite, it seems
Can we write this through? Details

Fresh impetus: One ammonia-urea unit gets going

Nov 10: 8The investment process has started
8Find out more
Click on Details
Details

Speciality chemicals is where IOCL is going: Maleic anhydride, butanediol and tetrahydrofuran

Nov 10: 8So find out more on what the company’s plans are
8Hopefully like they started doing with new projects, they will not mess up the run up this time in too much of fine print
Click on Details for more
Details

OIL's Beicip-Franlab H1 bid puts four ultra-deepwater blocks under scrutiny

Nov 10: 8Price raises a larger question about the cost of delivering such an integrated subsurface study.
Click on Details for more
Details

FACT's caprolactam plant: Who will take on an obsolete technology?

Nov 10: 8It wants a takeover of a 50,000 MTA unit
8But will there be enough takers?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs

Nov 10: 8ONGC's twin CBG projects carry a 13-year gap in operating obligations
8OIL extends 27,000-shot seismic tender to 16 November, retains 45-day mobilisation trap
8OIL extends 15-site gas monitoring tender by seven days, retains 72-hour acceptance trap
8ONGC extends Mumbai High TTBP tender by 56 days, retains offshore standby risk
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part I

Nov 10: 8IndianOil's biogas project: Is 10% cost accuracy realistic in the first feasibility attempt? And there is a feedstock gamble there too
8Bharat Petroleum's Bina catalyst tender: Can the lowest bidder still lose?
8BPCL's reactor-regenerator tender: Why is the company softening its terms?
8BPCL's pipeline augmentation: Why restrict competition and then extend deadlines?
8CPCL's heater tender: Why does EIL restrict competition?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our Downstream briefs: Part II

Nov 10: 8Numaligarh Refinery's coke evacuation gamble: Is a logistics crisis brewing?
8BPCL's international LPG consultancy: Is the experience bar too high?
8BPCL Kochi HAZOP study: Is the consultant being asked to price the unknown?
8200 TPD Gorakhpur CBG: Two bidders, for which the deadline had to be extended five times
Click on Details for more
Details

Daily forward looking import matrices

Nov 10: 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

Click on Reports for more. Details

Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day

Nov 10: 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

Nov 10: 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

Today's update in E&P and Midstream-Downstream sector

Nov 10: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P and midstream-downstream section
Click on Reports for more Details Details

Another fire incident at Tengakhat: LPG cylinder explosion at Oil India's No. 4 Kharikatia oil well canteen

Nov 10: For reference purposes the website carries here the following Newsclips (These are public domain newsclips and the website is not responsible for their content):
8Croatia pipeline damage disrupts oil supply to Serbia Details
8Trump says he backs energy permitting bill on eve of vote Details
8Strathcona, Greenfire agree to oil sands merger Details
8ADNOC, SNOC to explore gas partnership Details
8Which US oil major produced the most in Q3 2026? Details
8QatarEnergy, Chevron expand exploration partnership offshore Namibia Details
8Hungary's MOL Group sees profit surge on bumper refining margins Details
8Oil experiences sharpest weekly decline in months Details
8Trump hints US is holding back from striking Iran Details
8Bond yields fall as oil prices soften amid easing geopolitical concerns Details
8Stock markets end higher amid easing crude oil prices and buying in banks Details
8New Delhi wakes to toxic smog after Diwali as firecrackers add to seasonal pollution crisis Details
8US crude oil imports from Venezuela hit a nine-year peak in July 2026 Details
8Trump seeks exit, Iran remains defiant: Key issues holding up peace deal as Qatar brokers talks Details
8Middle East oil price war heralds post-conflict glut: Bousso Details
8Govt extends OALP-X and XI bidding deadlines again to Dec 10 Details
856% of global business leaders expect disruptions to severely hit operations: KPMG Details
8US Secretary of State Rubio to discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and more with G7 allies in France Details
8Oil falls at open as Trump says fresh Iran attacks are 'unlikely' Details
8Saudi Aramco building in Riyadh suffers minor damage after Houthi attack Details
8Gas hunt: RIL, ONGC, BP may share $1-billion infrastructure facility Details
8Murphy Oil bets on Israeli gas near Leviathan Details
8Saudi pipeline attacked as OPEC output climbs to 90% of pre-war levels Details
8Europe's power prices jump to 2022 high as wind and solar falter Details
8COP31 opens in Antalya with a UN push for faster climate action Details
8Iran moves to control oil terminals in China, leak shows Details
8Oil sinks to $94 as Iran's $8 billion Hormuz deal heads to Trump Details
8IEA backs electrification efforts at COP31 climate summit Details
8Global LNG markets face a winter of extreme uncertainty Details
8Vedanta Oil and Gas advances exploration in KG deepwater block Details
8Commercial green methanol bunkering to begin at Indian port this month Details
8Another fire incident at Tengakhat: LPG cylinder explosion at Oil India's No. 4 Kharikatia oil well canteen Details
8LPG price hike adds to woes of Bengaluru auto drivers Details
8India's ONGC set to take control of two key Venezuelan oil projects Details
8Karnataka stands firm on ethanol row: Minister Rizwan Arshad says oil companies blended up to 31.2% in petrol, demands choice of E10, E20, E30 and pure petrol for consumers Details
8Indian Oil plans its own fleet amid global shipping disruptions Details
8Rs. 84,084 crore incentive on offer, but India's deep-sea oil exploration bids delayed again Details
8Oil India independent director Motilal Meena appointed to Numaligarh Refinery board Details
8EIL director highlights changing chemicals trade map at ADIPEC 2026 roundtable Details
You can also click on Newsclips for more Details

The Rs 7,615 crore gas question

Nov 09: 8A gas trading business nearly doubled its revenue while selling less to outside buyers.
How? Details

BP influence evident: ONGC's three-design project requirement puts early engineering effort under scrutiny

Nov 09: 8And the entry barriers have been raised sky high
8So a designer will stay independently with a PMC from here on
Click  on Details for more
Details

Rs 800 crore in offshore vessel and rig awards for ONGC work

Nov 09: 8Find out who won them and what the deals are about.
Click on Details for more Details

Spot the difference: How LNG sourcing split India’s two biggest city gas players

Nov 09: 8Both were hit by the West Asia LNG shock.
8How hard depended on choices made long before it. Details

Adani's hell-for-leather run: An insatiable capacity to take risks

Nov 09: No matter what, the group contines to mobilize big money and take big risks
8It may turn out to be a fail run eventually, but the group keeps moving at a furious rate
Click on Details for more Details

Rajasthan refinery: A return to active tendering

Nov 09: 8But why is it asking for a 9 MMTPA design for a VDU from people who are less experienced?
8And the package has crude distillation, deep-cut vacuum distillation and liquefied petroleum gas treating. Yet no consoritums are allowed to bid
8Also proven licensors may yet get disqualified for a number of reasons
8And there is a hidden challenge that not many will pass through, we tell you what it is
8It looks like it is aimed at a very select group of companies
Click on Details for more
Details

Coal India Gasification Project: Updates

Nov 09: 8Coal India's massive water gas shift tender: Is competition being restricted?
8Coal India's acid gas removal tender: Who carries the integration risk?
8Coal India's sulphur recovery unit: Can licensors guarantee an unsettled feed?
8Coal India's methanation tender: Why keep competition so narrow? Also is it a catalyst gamble?
Click on Details for more
Details

E&P outfit with 100 million barrels in reserve: One lost year

Nov 09: 8Drilling is being held back, and one of its offshore assets is malfunctioning
Click on Details for more Details

BPCL's KPMG award: Who carries the real risk?

Nov 09: 8KPMG has emerged as the reported top-ranked bidder for BPCL's lubricants supply chain consultancy at Rs 4.84 crore.
8But the contract makes part of the consultant's earnings dependent on savings from initiatives that BPCL must approve and implement.
8What happens when the consultant delivers the solution but the client controls whether it succeeds?
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's Rs 76.18 crore CBM fracturing L1 exposes a 45% bidding divide

Nov 09: 8Fracturing jobs: Seros is now plugging the gap with oil multinationals
8And this is remarkable progress
Click on Details for more
Details

BPCL Kochi turnaround: Has Jecon priced the risk too low?

Nov 09: 8What is unknown is whether the price difference evidence of superior execution efficiency, or has the contractor taken on more risk than the numbers suggest?
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's Rs 50.50 crore Mumbai High L1 bid exposes 194% pricing gulf

Nov 09: 8The deeper question is what the bidding spread reveals about the commercial risks of replacing critical process equipment.
Click on Details for more
Details

Indian Oil's toluene extraction award: How did Toyo get it so wrong?

Nov 09: 8Has the winner found an execution advantage, or will the winning price face a tougher test once detailed engineering begins?
Click on Details for more
Details

BPCL's Kochi biogas project: Who pays for contractor failure?

Nov 09: 8This now going to get common in biogas projects
8The tender explicitly attributes extended consultancy requirements to poor performance and financial difficulties involving the turnkey contractor.
Click on Details for more
Details

ONGC's 225°C casing requirement narrows the field for HPHT drilling under Samudra Manthan

Nov 09: 8And names seven technology providers
Click on Details for more
Details

Biogas tenders: Unable to decide which feedstock will work

Nov 09: 8So some have begun asking for two entirely different feedstock options
8These feedstocks require materially different preprocessing and residue-management arrangements.
8Clearly bio-gas is the buzzword but clarity is far from certain
Click on Details for more
Details

HPCL plastic pyrolysis oil: Did tender conditions invite cancellation?

Nov 09: 8This is an interesting case which needs further investigation
Click on Details for more
Details

IndianOil's biomass extruder: Who guarantees performance after technology transfer?

Nov 09: 8IndianOil has demonstrated its biomass extrusion technology at Gorakhpur and now wants external manufacturers to commercialise it.
8Yet the present documents do not specify binding guarantees for energy consumption, equipment durability or pretreatment performance.
8Who will carry the responsibility if commercial installations fail to deliver expected results?
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs: Part I

Nov 09: 8ONGC's 20-year biogas contract shifts feedstock failure risk to contractors: Who will then guarantee that?
8OIL's wireline tender puts entire logging tool group under zero-payment threat
8ONGC's helicopter tender imposes 8,640-hour experience barrier on bidders and an age barrier
8OIL's Rs 7.99 crore drilling renovation tender hides a post-design payment trap
8OIL's three-year reservoir testing tender hides a costly re-survey trap
Click on Details for more
Details

Our E&P briefs: Part II

Nov 09: 8OIL's Madhuban surge consultancy sees 286.4% bid gap as Elazra emerges L1
8ONGC's grid earthing contract goes 17.8% below estimate, but execution risks remain
8ONGC withdraws two compressor pricing formats as 13 November deadline approaches
8OIL's extended crude benchmarking tender demands independent Platts and Argus compatibility
8OIL extends eight-compressor tender amid zero-cost capacity expansion clause
Click on Details for more
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Our E&P briefs: Part III

Nov 09: 8OIL extends 4.5 MMSCMD flare tender, retains Rs 69.37 crore eligibility barrier
8ONGC's Donaldson filter tender imposes part-number-specific price parity
8Difference between life and death: OIL's Rs 94.18 crore Pawan Hans award follows major Medevac concessions
8ONGC's rig walking plan: Is this a hair brained idea?
8Prabha Energy's CBM pipeline tender exposes two conflicting completion clocks, and a landowner trap
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Our E&P briefs: Part IV

Nov 09: 8OTPC's 726.6 MW Palatana tender transfers river-water infrastructure risks to O&M contractor
8ONGC's 11-pipeline corrosion tender: Fresh developments
8OIL seismic digitalisation tender extended by 85 days without easing qualification barriers
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Our Downstream briefs: Part I

Nov 09: 8BPCL heater revamp: Why only Engineers India Limited?
8BPCL Mumbai refinery turnaround: Who bears the downtime risk?
8IndianOil's Haldia steam project: Engineering before approvals?
8Hindustan Petroleum's global catalyst tender: Why restrict competition?
8IndianOil's multi-project supervision contract: Can pipeline specialists handle refinery and gas infrastructure?
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Our Downstream briefs: Part II

Nov 09: 8BPCL's reactor-regenerator tender: Who pays for faulty engineering?
8Bharat Coal Gasification's water tender: Underlying assumptions keep changing
8CPCL heater tender: Why contractors are questioning engineering and site risks set by EIL
8Indian Oil's inspection tool tender: Why extend deadlines without fixing eligibility contradictions?
8IndianOil's Guwahati petcoke boiler disposal: Why is an 80%-completed project being dismantled?
8Bharat Petroleum's Tuticorin project: Is 30 m drilling enough?
8IndianOil Paradip turnaround award: Why did two bidders quote almost identical prices?
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Lubricant revamp: One hand tied

Nov 09: 8The designer has to work with original information missing
8He must reconstruct the technical baseline while remaining exposed to penalties for serious design mistakes.
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