Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd wants to hit first oil from one of its DSF fields in mid-August 2020
8Earlier there were doubts where this deadline can be met
8But the company seems to be prepared to meet this deadline and is in the process of finalizing services contracts for the field
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Helicopter company Global Vectra is in the eye of a storm over alleged "unsafe" flying in Mumbai High.
8Helicopters ferrying ONGC personnel to offshore platforms have not been always safe and there have been loss of life
8Is ONGC headed for another accident because adequate safety measures are still not in place?
8The ONGC brass cannot turn around and say it has not been warned
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Here is an ethanol plant not being set up using biomass
8EIA has been prepared
8Engineering consultant is a private sector major
8Technology provider has been settled
8Expect EPC contractor RFQ soon
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Having failed to elicit a good response against its tender for 5 mmscmd of gas at a slope of 9% to the Brent index, the RIL-BP duo will have to try again
8What caused the auction to fail?
8When will the two try again to hold another auction?
8How will the auction parameters change?
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It is a Rs 200 crore fertilizer expansion project
8The project is for production of NP (20:20:0:13)
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Supply of Motor Operated Valves for LPG Pipeline Details
83 year rate contract for miscellaneous painting jobs in refinery and offsites Details
8Job of Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Heat Transfer Labeling Machine Details
8Civil Works for Chemical Storage Shed and Exchanger Tube Shed Details
8Supply and installation of valve actuators Details
8Supply of Sodium Meta Bi-Sulphite Details
8Agency for NDT and certification of pressure vessels and SRVs under SMPV (U) Rules at refinery Details
8Design, installation, testing and commissioning of fall arrestor system Details
8Lining up of an agency for leak survey at refinery Details
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8Indo-US energy trade to touch $10 billion in FY20: Dharmendra Pradhan Details
8India's Trilemma: Balancing energy security, access & sustainability Details
8Pradhan to visit Russia, Japan from Oct 22-26 Details
8Farmers seek action against BPCL Details
8Rajasthan: Fuel pumps to remain shut for 24 hours over VAT rate Details
8Oil Search cuts 2019 production outlook, slashes capex on project delays Details
8Exxon trial probes how oil giant accounts for climate change Details
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8PetroChina to operate 18,000 gas wells in Changqing for winter heating Details
8US fails to halt Iran's oil industry development: Minister Details
8Qatar Petroleum offers low-sulphur marine fuel oil at domestic ports Details
8Ecuador resumes oil exports curbed by protests Details
8Oil prices edge up on U.S.-China trade optimism, but demand concerns cap Details
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Oilex has got the upper hand in the dispute with GSPC over control of the Cambay block
8Will it eventually want to take 100% control?
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What is the latest status on the Mundra LNG terminal?
8It was commissioned a year ago, and it looks like the situation is going from bad to worse, with the Adanis playing truant.
8Meanwhile, caught in the scuffle, contractors are claiming that they have not been paid their dues.
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The Indian offshore E&P business has seen little competition so far. There are only a small clutch of local players in the fray.
8Only L&T seems to have the prowess to bid on its own.
8One new player, with a global tie-up, is now eyeing the space. There is speculation that it can indeed become a formidable player
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ONGC has awarded a contract for overseeing the overall integrity of its offshore and onshore pipelines as well as its gas distribution network
8The one-year contract is for a sum of Rs 30 crore
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ONGC's Ramanathanpuram Onshore field will see a spurt in activity
8An EIA consultant will be needed
8And eventually a drilling rig too
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What happens to Numaligarh Refinery, if Saudi Aramco were to take over BPCL?. The latter owns 61.65% of the refinery. Already, political noises have begun emerging in the North East over its "privatization" and the need for the company to be kept out of private hands.This website's view is that the government must ignore what would soon become a strident demand to handover Numaligarh refinery either to Indian Oil Corporation or for OIL India Ltd and the Assam government, who are already stakeholders, take over the refinery.
 8The 6 MMTPA refining expansion is being built on a 50% excise rebate and a Rs 1000 crore central government capital subsidy. 
 8When the refinery is expanded, most of the the extra capacity will only cater to demand originating outside of the North East. The industrial climate in the region is poor and it is unlikely that enough demand for petroleum products will be created there to keep a 9 MMTPA refinery going. There are three other refineries already operational in Assam and jostling for market share. Then again, what is the point of importing crude via a pipeline all the way from the East Coast, and then taking finished products back through a pipeline that will run parallel to the one importing crude?
 8The expansion of the refinery is wrongly seen by the Modi led BJP government as a sop to the industry-deficient and militancy ridden North East of India. This was exactly the logic on which the existing refinery was set up when Rajiv Gandhi signed the Assam Accord with the agitating All Assam Students Union in 1984.
 8But a lot of a water has flown down the Brahmaputra since then. Stagnating crude production from the Assam fields now means that a 1,350 km crude import pipeline all the way from Paradip will now have to feed the refinery expansion. It is also a well established fact that a state-of-art refinery employs very few people and the Numaligarh refinery, per say, had little or no economic linkage with the rest of Assam's economy. More so, as no refinery related ancillaries have come up in Assam.
 8Bangladesh and Myanmar are also meant to be target markets for the Numaligarh refinery when its refinery capacity expands. The question is should a subsidised Indian refinery be selling petroleum products to a neighbouring country or to its own people? It is also a myth that Numaligarh can help sell Indian petroleum products in Myanmar. The route to Myanmar is long and torturous, and traverses difficult, militancy ridden terrain. A pipeline will be unviable given low offtake in areas bordering India and the fragile border roads will not be able to take the load of tankers ferrying MS and HSD from the plains of Assam to the Burmese border.
 8Let the new owner take a call on the fate of the Numaligarh refinery. If they do not want to go through an expansion, the subsidies to be granted to the refinery should be pumped back as cash into the state by the govenment to build schools and hospitals and spruce up its dilapidated infrastructure. This will provide a miuch higher social return on investment than doling it as a subsidy to the refinery.
 8It is however to be noted that all central governments become a little weak-kneed when it comes to dealing with the North East. Manmohan Singh, before he demitted office, forced GAIL to set up a subsidized petrochemical cracker unit in Dibrugarh, in the easternmost foothills of the Himalayas. The central government continues to foot its capital and fuel subsidy bills.
 8The Numaligarh refinery may still be bailed out by the central government but that will be for the wrong reasons. Yes, the North East needs help but there are other better ways of helping out. Editor: Indianpetroplus.com Details

The Adanis have roped in more partners for a chemical complex in Mundra
8Earlier, it had partnered with BASF for it.
8The cost of the project can now go up to Rs 30,000 crore
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This is a block that ONGC had been at work since 2013 and then won it back in the DSF-II round
8The company has now drawn up a Rs 300 crore plan to boost gas production
8What our more on what kind of RFQs are up ahead
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Ammonia-Urea Energy Saving Project
8Cost - Rs 481 crore
8Project Event: The project implementation is in mid-stage, 60 % of the project has been completed, The company needed Rs 280 crore for left work, which is under process, and an overall capital approval for Rs 280 crore is likely to approve in October in place of September 2019, due to delay in the process. The installation of the first and second HRSG has been completed and erection of GTG is ongoing. RFQ for the Construction of Sheds at Transformer and Pump Area & Instrument erection contract has been released and bid due date is 23 October 2019. The project is likely to be commissioned in February 2020.
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Sulphate of Potash-Bromine and Captive Power Unit Expansion Project 
8Cost - Rs 500 crore
8Project Event: The project is in the initial phase management is taking time to move forward, The RFQ for the EPC contractor is likely to be released in December in place of October 2019 due to delay in the discussion.
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All public sector bio-ethanol refineries in India are forced enterprises, as of now. Promoters claim that the cost of setting them is too high whereas the availability of feedstock is in doubt.
8Most calculations put the IRR at less than double digits. Some, who are struggling to incorporate revised costs based on EPC bids, claim that the returns can in fact be negative.
8Under such circumstances, is it possible for state governments to attract private investments in bio-ethanol plants?
8Some states are now specifically asking for such plants to be set up, sops are being offered
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8ARC for Servicing and Reconditioning of Steam Traps Details
8Procurement of Pipes Details
8Supply of Tube Bundle with Dummy Shell Details
8Supply of Demulsifier for Ahmedabad, Tarapur & Sanand Miroli Block Details
8Hiring of Diesel Generator Sets for Ahmedabad Block Details
8Supply of Rotary Drilling Hoses Details
8Supply of 2,400,000 Kg of Sodium Format Details
8Supply of Isolation Transformers Details
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8Strategic disinvestment of both HPCL, BPCL this year? Details
8India must focus on natural gas as an intermediate fuel amid rising RE share: Sumant Sinha Details
8Maritime industry seeks solutions to limit pollution Details
8No respite for Delhi as stubble burning cases rise Details
8Farm fires may account for 19% of Delhi’s PM2.5 today Details
8The long and winding road to BPCL privatisation Details
8Reliance bets big on Madhya Pradesh; eyes more investment Details
8India's Reliance Industries reports 18.3% increase in net profit Details
8RIL's retail biz crosses Rs 40,000 crore revenue: Takeaways from Q2 nos Details
8RIL yet to decide on adoption of newer rate of corporate taxation Details
8Tramp shippers to be most challenged by IMO 2020 rule change: ICS Details
8Reliance Industries says on track to produce gas from newer fields by mid-2020 Details
8India's 1st plant to convert paddy straw into biogas near Delhi to tackle pollution Details
8Kerala: Construction begins for CNG-LNG dispensing station at Anayara Details
8Oil prices dip on weak demand outlook, supply concerns Details
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8The ONGC brass has tightened the norms under which a contract can be given out on a nomination basis
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Mercator is trying hard to stay afloat after the court dismissed a plea against the encashment of a Rs 142 crore bank guarantee by ONGC for non-delivery over a contract to convert the Sagar Samrat rig into a MOPU
8The company is cannibalizing its assets. A company-owned dredging ship sank early last month.
8Find out more on the on easset that the company is not keen to sell
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When there is a wide differential between spot and contract prices, offtake of LNG becomes a problem, particularly when offtakers try and push it reluctant buyers
8Lack of offtake can also be on account of a slowing economy
8Find out how PLL's Dahej LNG terminal is fighting a serious overstorage problem. Details

Environment clearance for a Rs 215 crore, 4-well exploratory drilling programme has come in
8Expect tenders next months now
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RFQs for rig mobilization, mobile ETP and civil works for a 15 well exploratory drilling programme are coming up soon
8RFQs were delayed by a few months on account of lack of clearances
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Two more storage tanks are coming up in PLL's Dahej LNG terminal
8The need to quickly put up the extra storage has been underscored by over-flowing tanks at present.
8Work is being expedited, though there will be a big time lag between award of tender to construction and commissioning of the additional tankage.
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Rs 225 crore greenfield POL terminal
8RFQ for a PMC is expected in December, 2019
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What is the progress made by the Adanis with the Dhamra LNG terminal>
8It is a 5 MMTPA terminal
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