IPA/propane/sulphuric acid/wax: Refiner looks at new units in these segments. Rs 20,000 crore project review: Cancelled. GAIL makes regulatory delay a contractor risk as Skp Projects wins pan-India pipeline permission mandate. IOCL-BPCL-HPCL biodiesel award puts capacity allocation, not L1 pricing, at the centre of the Rs 1,397.72 crore procurement. MRPL Bio-ATF project draws four global instrumentation vendors into a tightly controlled limited-bid contest. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. GE Shipping Sitting on $700 million in cash: But will not do much with it . Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. Daily forward looking import matrices. Downstream contracting briefs: Results. Downstream contracting briefs: Part I. Downstream contracting briefs: Part II. Downstream contracting briefs: Part III. Downstream contracting briefs: Part IV. Patna sees rising CNG demand as network expands to 41 stations and over 60,000 vehicles. South Goa District City Gas Distribution Project. Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector. Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day. Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day. Daily forward looking import matrices. Oil rises as Iran tempers hopes for swift Hormuz reopening. 18 MMTPA of new refining capacity lands in two months. EV economics don't work without cheap financing: CNG bets on buses. How 13.6% of CGD's volume delivered 100% of its profit growth. CGD major's battery bet broke because batteries got cheaper. ONGC is now two companies, and only one of them is growing. The same gas, two prices, 90% apart. CGD companies margins have gone up dramatically. India missed its first CBG blending target : The mandate now triples. Heater treater segment: Suddenly opens up with those without enough experience. IOCL locks in an EPCM partner early but keeps 85% of the consultancy opportunity behind a sanction gate. ONGC consulting contract: How Rina Consulting and SGS India found their way out. IOCL's HDD empanelment could quietly shrink open competition across future pipeline crossings. ONGC holds the risk line as Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger enter the three-year LWD contest . OIL puts four ultra-deepwater KG and Mahanadi blocks through an integrated prospect-to-well decision test. ONGC tests success-only HR-PCP procurement against gas and sand failures in Bokaro CBM wells. Downstream contracting briefs: Results. Downstream contracting briefs: Part I. Downstream contracting briefs: Part II.
IPA/propane/sulphuric acid/wax: Refiner looks at new units in these segments
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Rs 20,000 crore project review: Cancelled
Aug 12: 8Was the refinery unwilling to face some harsh truths? Click on Details for more
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GAIL makes regulatory delay a contractor risk as Skp Projects wins pan-India pipeline permission mandate
Aug 12: 8Bidders asked GAIL to soften deductions where forest, highway, wildlife and other approvals stall for reasons outside their control. GAIL refused, leaving the Rs 13.07 crore winner exposed to a risk it cannot entirely manage. Click on Details for more
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IOCL-BPCL-HPCL biodiesel award puts capacity allocation, not L1 pricing, at the centre of the Rs 1,397.72 crore procurement
Aug 12: 8The distribution exposes a different competitive hierarchy than an ordinary lowest-price tender. Click on Details for more
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MRPL Bio-ATF project draws four global instrumentation vendors into a tightly controlled limited-bid contest
Aug 12: 8Emerson, Endress + Hauser, Honeywell and Yokogawa are recorded as participants in the field-instrument tender. The enquiry was restricted to eligible EIL-enlisted suppliers and required zero deviation. Whether the four-bid field survives detailed technical scrutiny remains undisclosed. Click on Details for more
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Oil & Gas Sector: All new tenders of the day
Aug 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. Also click on the Tenders section for more detailed documentation Click on Reports for more.
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Oil & Gas Sector: Get all winning contracts of the day
Aug 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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GE Shipping Sitting on $700 million in cash: But will not do much with it
Aug 12: 8It had its best quarter yet and yet it won't spend a rupee of it Click on Details for moreDetails
Today's update in E&P, Midstream-Downstream & CGD sector
Aug 12: 8Here's what's happening today in the E&P, midstream-downstream, and CGD section Click on Reports for more DetailsDetails
Daily forward looking import matrices
Aug 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 8Coal & Coke Click on Reports for more.Details
Downstream contracting briefs: Results
Aug 12: 1) BPCL’s sole coalescer bid raises a harder question: is BPREP’s technical bar outrunning the vendor pool? 8This package spans liquid-condensate, PGH-feed and fuel-gas coalescing duties rather than a single catalogue item. The tender folds in pressure-vessel, piping, instrumentation, PMI, sour-service and inspection requirements. One bid does not prove the specification is restrictive, but it makes that question impossible to ignore.
2) BPCL’s Kochi hydrogen tender loses one-third of its field before price opening 8Three bidders entered BPCL’s mobile cascade feasibility-study tender, but only two survived technical evaluation.
3) CPCL’s LOBS award exposes a 38.9% pricing gulf after technical filters cut the bidder field in half 8Find out more
Aug 12: 1) GAIL’s Purna River HDD tender puts a 30-day clock on the engineering package that will shape the entire project 8The first major deliverable bundles design basis, drawings, cost estimate, scope of work and project schedule into one front-end package. Failure to deliver within 30 calendar days attracts PRS of 0.5% per week or part thereof, with the stated upper cap linked to 5% of the entire contract value. The real question is how much pricing contingency consultants will build around that compressed engineering window.
2) IOCL Haldia Refinery pushes oily sludge risk from refinery floor to final disposal point 8This is not a conventional waste-transport contract: the contractor must mechanically recover sludge from pits, sumps and bins before taking responsibility for compliant transportation and disposal. Pumps, heavy machinery, containers, vehicles and even robotic cleaning can sit inside the bidder scope. The commercial significance lies in how much execution uncertainty IOCL has moved outside the refinery’s own operating envelope.
3) IOCL Paradip Refinery shifts shutdown timing risk to contractors without paying for schedule flexibility 8IOCL can advance or defer the M&I shutdown within the contract-validity period without additional cost to the contractor. The contractor must also remain mobilised through reactor start-up and cannot claim idling charges for the specified gap between catalyst work and start-up activities. That turns schedule uncertainty into a bidder-side cost that may not be obvious from the BOQ.
4) NRL makes outage survival, not nameplate capacity, the real test for sulphur forming bids 8A 450 TPD machine easily exceeds the 300 TPD guaranteed production requirement, but NRL says that still does not meet the tender's spare-unit philosophy. The clarification shifts the competitive battleground from tonnes per day to what happens when the principal granulator goes down. That distinction could reshape OEM selection and capex.
5) BPCL's Kochi polypropylene package gets a fourth extension as contractor-side power risk becomes harder to price 8The closing date has moved ahead, a cumulative 33-day extension. BPCL/EIL has meanwhile clarified that refinery construction power depends on local feasibility and bidders must mobilise DG capacity across roughly 4 km. The significance lies in how that requirement changes the construction-cost equation rather than in the calendar move alone.
Aug 12: 1) GAIL reverses own-plant ban in Bengaluru CBG tender, potentially redrawing the competitive field 8The original BEC expressly excluded projects executed by bidders for their own plants; Corrigendum no. 3 now allows them subject to TPIA-backed ownership, statutory, as-built and operating-performance evidence. That reversal could bring integrated CBG developers into contention that were previously unable to use some of their strongest reference assets.
2) IOCL’s Barauni Refinery pushes 33 kV grid-islanding LSTK bid to 25 August after 38-day closing-date drift 8IOCL has moved the closing date for Barauni Refinery’s 33 kV grid-isolation and islanding LSTK package from 18 July to 25 August while leaving its specialist GIS qualification and fixed execution framework intact. The extension gives bidders substantially more time to price a brownfield scope spanning GIS modifications, virtual incomer logic, LBB protection and shutdown-linked commissioning. What remains unanswered is whether the repeated calendar reset reflects ordinary bid preparation or a deeper procurement constraint around the package’s technical and competitive architecture.
3) BPCL’s latest PRFCC addendum shifts the real risk from civil cost to interface delay 8The bidder no longer needs to assume responsibility for certain hardstand and external ODC foundations, a contractor-positive clarification on paper. Yet the reactor-regenerator package remains schedule-dependent on infrastructure delivered by another party, creating a potentially more complex argument over delay attribution than over the civil cost itself.
4) BPCL polymer additive project ties bid-date slippage to a technically sensitive jump from 5 kg batches to a 100 kg demonstration 8The nominated contractor must take an exothermic bulk polymerisation through three 5 kg batches before demonstrating a successful 100 kg batch. Heat generation, mixing, catalyst addition and solvent washing must all be tracked through the scale transition. The extra procurement time therefore precedes a technically demanding scale-up programme rather than routine material supply.
5) IOCL Haldia flare consultancy uses its full 14-day extension runway as the three-bid GeM threshold comes into focus 8The tender moved from 05 August to 12 August and then to 19 August, exactly matching its configured two seven-day extension windows. The underlying bid says three bids are needed to disable automatic extension. The actual participation count, however, is not disclosed in the reviewed documents.
Aug 12: 1) BPCL lowers the drawbridge for RhAcAc bidders but keeps the JM Davy gate firmly shut 8BPCL has scrapped the Rs 7.50 lakh EMD, removing a non-technical hurdle from its 9 kg RhAcAc catalyst procurement. But the corrigendum does not touch the requirement that bidders be manufacturer-specified vendors for JM Davy and demonstrate previous supply of the same catalyst. The real question is whether BPCL is widening competition or merely making participation easier for an already narrow vendor pool.
2) EIL opens water bath heater vendor pool to pressure-vessel makers, but builds a hard in-house capability gate 8EIL is not limiting qualification to established water bath heater suppliers, creating a potential opening for pressure-vessel manufacturers. But the alternative route demands two in-house SPRV jobs, hydrocarbon-sector experience and specified fabrication capability. The real story is whether EIL is broadening competition or simply replacing one entry barrier with another.
3) HPCL tests whether existing H2 compressors can absorb the Old NIU revamp before committing to new hardware 8The assignment puts existing 73-K-01A/B H2 make-up compressors through feasibility and engineering adequacy checks against revised process requirements. The winner must progress from option selection to BOM and a revamp activity list rather than merely deliver a desktop study. The unanswered question is how much latent capacity HPCL can extract before the exercise turns into a material compressor revamp.
4) SAF tender quietly shuts the door on unproven UCO technologies at Mumbai refinery 8The is insisting that the offered pretreatment technology must already have operated commercially for at least six months at a minimum 185 TPD scale. Pilot, laboratory and demonstration units will not qualify, putting real operating pedigree ahead of technology promise. The clause could sharply narrow the field of credible bidders before the commercial contest even begins.
5) HPCL shifts inspection risk to contractors in 18-day FCC-NHT reactor turnaround 8HPCL expects fresh repair work to emerge only after the three reactors are opened and inspected. Yet the tender says those additional unit-rate jobs must still be completed within the stipulated turnaround schedule. The real issue is whether contractors will price a hidden contingency premium into what looks like a tightly defined shutdown package.
Aug 12: 1) IOCL's Manas River water-intake EPCM tender reaches sixth extension as 52-day delay tests bidder depth and design readiness 8IOCL has pushed the closing date for Bongaigaon Refinery's Manas River water-intake EPCM consultancy from 26 June to 17 August, creating a 52-day procurement stretch. The bid was configured around a four-bid threshold, while its technical document set was still being revised after the original closing date. What the sixth extension says about competitive depth and project sequencing is now more important than the calendar change itself.
2) Four deadline extensions push IOCL cetane improver tender 22 days as pricing formula and technical gates stay demanding 8IOCL has moved the closing date for its 6,000 MT cetane improver rate contract from 21 July to 12 August after four successive extensions. The additional bidding time comes alongside a manufacturer-only qualification regime, mandatory physical sample testing and a separate shift from a three-month to one-month 2EH price benchmark. The documents do not explain the repeated extensions, leaving the eventual bidder count as the key test of whether timing or structural entry barriers are driving the procurement cycle.
3) BPCL HCU revamp bidders get seven more days, but the 42-month risk model remains untouched 8No technical, qualification, payment or liability clause has been relaxed alongside it. The significance lies in what bidders must still absorb when they submit revised pricing assumptions.
4) BPCL gives bidders seven more days but leaves ATF terminal execution and qualification risks untouched 8BPCL has shifted the bid deadline for its two ATF terminal composite-work packages without reopening the underlying technical or qualification framework. Corrigendum #2 moves both bid submission and techno-commercial opening by seven days while explicitly preserving every other tender condition. The more consequential question lies in what bidders must still absorb once the extra preparation window closes.
5) BPCL Kochi Refinery's three-bid auto-extension threshold puts competitive depth at the centre of the SRU-2 and MNV-11 delay 8Each GeM tender was configured for a three-day automatic extension unless the specified minimum bid threshold was satisfied. The first movement from 31 July to 3 August aligns with that mechanism, although actual bid numbers are not disclosed. The subsequent deadline movements make the participation question harder to dismiss.
6) HPCL Visakh Refinery's 10-day UCO bid extension puts its demanding SAF supplier gates under scrutiny 8The tender combines substantial turnover and completed-work requirements with certification and delivery obligations. Whether more time materially widens participation will only become clear when the technical bids are opened.
Patna sees rising CNG demand as network expands to 41 stations and over 60,000 vehicles
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