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Dec 2025
1) Zero-deviation API-grade pump package tightens localisation and delivery risk for polypropylene unit in NRL PPU project
8NRL and EIL have opened a high-spec pump race with a tender that looks routine on the surface but is unusually tight underneath.
2) Paradip refinery seeks multi-discipline engineering assistance under owner-heavy risk and code-intensive tender
8IOCL Paradip refinery has put nearly its entire downstream engineering backbone for stress, tank and structural design into a single long-horizon consultancy contract. Behind a modest EMD, the documents hide a demanding mix of global codes, tight mobilisation and a 39-month performance security lock-up. How bidders price, structure teams and hedge scope risk under a SOW that overrides the GCC will decide whether this becomes IOCL’s template for future refinery-wide engineering support.
3) BPCL Mumbai refinery DAS phase II reactor leak test compressor hire tightens nitrogen quality and safety regime
8BPCL Mumbai refinery has put an unusually tight nitrogen purity and oil-content bar on a seemingly small compressor hire, directly tying the package to DAS phase II reactor integrity.
4) Seven bid extensions stretch gas chromatograph analyser package timeline
8A refinery-critical gas chromatograph package for BPCL’s Bina petchem and refinery expansion has now seen its bid window pushed out by 78 days.
5) Four successive extensions push BPCL Bina petchem column and tower tender to mid-December without softening PQC or NDA guardrails
8BPCL’s Bina petchem expansion has quietly pushed its heavy column and tower tender from late October to 16 December, adding nearly seven weeks of bidding time. The scope and gatekeeping—thick-wall columns, trayed tower experience, tight NDA and HSE conditions—remain untouched despite four extensions.
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8NRL and EIL have opened a high-spec pump race with a tender that looks routine on the surface but is unusually tight underneath.
2) Paradip refinery seeks multi-discipline engineering assistance under owner-heavy risk and code-intensive tender
8IOCL Paradip refinery has put nearly its entire downstream engineering backbone for stress, tank and structural design into a single long-horizon consultancy contract. Behind a modest EMD, the documents hide a demanding mix of global codes, tight mobilisation and a 39-month performance security lock-up. How bidders price, structure teams and hedge scope risk under a SOW that overrides the GCC will decide whether this becomes IOCL’s template for future refinery-wide engineering support.
3) BPCL Mumbai refinery DAS phase II reactor leak test compressor hire tightens nitrogen quality and safety regime
8BPCL Mumbai refinery has put an unusually tight nitrogen purity and oil-content bar on a seemingly small compressor hire, directly tying the package to DAS phase II reactor integrity.
4) Seven bid extensions stretch gas chromatograph analyser package timeline
8A refinery-critical gas chromatograph package for BPCL’s Bina petchem and refinery expansion has now seen its bid window pushed out by 78 days.
5) Four successive extensions push BPCL Bina petchem column and tower tender to mid-December without softening PQC or NDA guardrails
8BPCL’s Bina petchem expansion has quietly pushed its heavy column and tower tender from late October to 16 December, adding nearly seven weeks of bidding time. The scope and gatekeeping—thick-wall columns, trayed tower experience, tight NDA and HSE conditions—remain untouched despite four extensions.
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1) For BPCL’s Ramayapatnam LLDPE/HDPE swing project
8EIL has quietly stripped out the licensor’s obligation to deliver a full operator training simulator. That single deletion rewrites how operators will be prepared for abnormal and emergency scenarios in a 500 KTPA polyolefin unit. The shift also reshapes which licensors are best positioned to win the tender, and where the project’s operational risk now sits.
2) EIL sharpens catalyst economics and expands licensor service obligations in technical for the integrated hydro processing block
8EIL’s latest technical amendment for BPCL’s Andhra Pradesh refinery quietly rewrites how catalyst life, precious-metal costs and provenness will be judged. It simultaneously drags licensors deeper into installation, training and BEDP coordination alongside the owner’s consultants.
3) BPCL AP refinery licensor tender tightens aggregate liability and patent risk carve-outs in NHT and ISOM units
8BPCL and EIL have quietly rewritten the small print on how much liability a licensor must carry for the AP refinery’s NHT and ISOM units. The latest commercial amendment fixes a 50% cap on ordinary exposure but doubles it when patents are challenged, while locking in hard guarantees and corrective-work obligations.
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8EIL has quietly stripped out the licensor’s obligation to deliver a full operator training simulator. That single deletion rewrites how operators will be prepared for abnormal and emergency scenarios in a 500 KTPA polyolefin unit. The shift also reshapes which licensors are best positioned to win the tender, and where the project’s operational risk now sits.
2) EIL sharpens catalyst economics and expands licensor service obligations in technical for the integrated hydro processing block
8EIL’s latest technical amendment for BPCL’s Andhra Pradesh refinery quietly rewrites how catalyst life, precious-metal costs and provenness will be judged. It simultaneously drags licensors deeper into installation, training and BEDP coordination alongside the owner’s consultants.
3) BPCL AP refinery licensor tender tightens aggregate liability and patent risk carve-outs in NHT and ISOM units
8BPCL and EIL have quietly rewritten the small print on how much liability a licensor must carry for the AP refinery’s NHT and ISOM units. The latest commercial amendment fixes a 50% cap on ordinary exposure but doubles it when patents are challenged, while locking in hard guarantees and corrective-work obligations.
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8ONGC has instead used the Q&A to hard-code a 12-hour operating-day floor and reinforce tight percentage limits on ancillary charges while leaving bottom-hole sampling experience criteria unchanged.
8How bidders price this mix of rigid commercial guardrails and technically demanding slickline-plus-PVT work in a no-guarantee call-out model is the real story that will unfold at the bid table.
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8How bidders price this mix of rigid commercial guardrails and technically demanding slickline-plus-PVT work in a no-guarantee call-out model is the real story that will unfold at the bid table.
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1) BPCL Bina Petchem tower internals tender pushed to 10 December after fifth extension
8A fifth time extension has now pushed BPCL’s Bina Petchem tower internals tender out to 10 December, without touching any of the tight licensor-driven technical or commercial clauses.
2) IOCL Gujarat refinery extends EHT rundown header bid window while easing exposure temperature but tightening quantity-variation risk for contractors
8IOCL’s Gujarat refinery has quietly pushed out the bid deadline three times on its EHT upgrade for the RCO and bitumen rundown headers. Along the way it has cut the governing exposure temperature and clarified cable responsibilities after bidder pushback. But behind these softeners sits a hard line on quantity-variation risk and long-term maintenance that will shape how aggressively contractors can bid.
3) IGGL pushes Duliajan feeder line PMC bid closure to 31 December after two GeM extensions.
8IGGL’s Duliajan feeder line PMC tender has quietly slid from a 1 December to a 31 December closure without touching the tight PQC and financial bars. The extra month coincides with a fresh GeM corrigendum that drags pre-bid minutes and Corrigendum I into the buyer’s ATC, sharpening the legal edge of clarifications.
4) EIL quietly adds 19 days and late technical tweaks on HPCL’s LMBU vertical SPP pump tender
8Two extensions, a fresh technical amendment and a dense Q&A have reshaped the calendar for HPCL’s LMBU vertical SPP pump tender. Bidders now have until 10 December to reconcile revised datasheets and strict MR-driven spares expectations under an unchanged commercial framework.
5) BPCL stretches bid window and hard-wires option and excess-settlement risk for complex CDU heater revamp
8A high-stakes VDU heater revamp at BPCL’s Mumbai refinery has quietly picked up nearly three extra weeks of bidding time and a powerful 25% option clause. New excess-settlement mechanics and pre-bid clarifications now lock contractors into SS310-heavy metallurgy, extensive structural repairs, and steep mobilization benchmarks under a strict no-deviation regime.
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8A fifth time extension has now pushed BPCL’s Bina Petchem tower internals tender out to 10 December, without touching any of the tight licensor-driven technical or commercial clauses.
2) IOCL Gujarat refinery extends EHT rundown header bid window while easing exposure temperature but tightening quantity-variation risk for contractors
8IOCL’s Gujarat refinery has quietly pushed out the bid deadline three times on its EHT upgrade for the RCO and bitumen rundown headers. Along the way it has cut the governing exposure temperature and clarified cable responsibilities after bidder pushback. But behind these softeners sits a hard line on quantity-variation risk and long-term maintenance that will shape how aggressively contractors can bid.
3) IGGL pushes Duliajan feeder line PMC bid closure to 31 December after two GeM extensions.
8IGGL’s Duliajan feeder line PMC tender has quietly slid from a 1 December to a 31 December closure without touching the tight PQC and financial bars. The extra month coincides with a fresh GeM corrigendum that drags pre-bid minutes and Corrigendum I into the buyer’s ATC, sharpening the legal edge of clarifications.
4) EIL quietly adds 19 days and late technical tweaks on HPCL’s LMBU vertical SPP pump tender
8Two extensions, a fresh technical amendment and a dense Q&A have reshaped the calendar for HPCL’s LMBU vertical SPP pump tender. Bidders now have until 10 December to reconcile revised datasheets and strict MR-driven spares expectations under an unchanged commercial framework.
5) BPCL stretches bid window and hard-wires option and excess-settlement risk for complex CDU heater revamp
8A high-stakes VDU heater revamp at BPCL’s Mumbai refinery has quietly picked up nearly three extra weeks of bidding time and a powerful 25% option clause. New excess-settlement mechanics and pre-bid clarifications now lock contractors into SS310-heavy metallurgy, extensive structural repairs, and steep mobilization benchmarks under a strict no-deviation regime.
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1) Bid window quietly extended for UOP expert PSA services in IOCL Haldia refinery
8IOCL has pushed back the bid deadline for its UOP-only PSA expert support tender after the original window technically expired. The move preserves all existing commercial and compliance clauses while giving the OEM two extra weeks to submit. What this really signals about IOCL’s flexibility on time versus risk allocation needs a closer read of the fine print.
2) HPCLl pushes ASF consultancy bid deadline by four days without easing risk terms
8HPCL has quietly pushed back the GeM deadline for its ASF consultancy and soil investigation tender covering Bagdogra and other airports.
3) IOCL Paradip power-trading ARC draws four top Category-I exchange bidders at technical stage
8Four heavyweight power traders have quietly cleared IOCL Paradip’s stringent technical gate for a one-year open-access power ARC.
4) Indian Oil cancels integration-heavy 220 kv gis epcc 03 tender after months of tightening terms and scope shifts at panipat maleic anhydride project
8The tender has now been cancelled, but the way it evolved may matter even more than the fact that it did not close.
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8IOCL has pushed back the bid deadline for its UOP-only PSA expert support tender after the original window technically expired. The move preserves all existing commercial and compliance clauses while giving the OEM two extra weeks to submit. What this really signals about IOCL’s flexibility on time versus risk allocation needs a closer read of the fine print.
2) HPCLl pushes ASF consultancy bid deadline by four days without easing risk terms
8HPCL has quietly pushed back the GeM deadline for its ASF consultancy and soil investigation tender covering Bagdogra and other airports.
3) IOCL Paradip power-trading ARC draws four top Category-I exchange bidders at technical stage
8Four heavyweight power traders have quietly cleared IOCL Paradip’s stringent technical gate for a one-year open-access power ARC.
4) Indian Oil cancels integration-heavy 220 kv gis epcc 03 tender after months of tightening terms and scope shifts at panipat maleic anhydride project
8The tender has now been cancelled, but the way it evolved may matter even more than the fact that it did not close.
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8ONGC takes a hard line on commercial risk while tightening several technical boundaries
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8BPCL’s Ramayapatnam PFCCU licensor tender is emerging as a stress test of how much risk global FCC licensors are willing to carry into India. Pre-bid attempts to soften liability caps, shorten patent exposure, narrow territory and front-load cashflows have largely been rebuffed by EIL.
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1) BPCL’s Ramayapatnam cumene licensor race reopens as global competition with softer EMD and hard technical filters
8BPCL has quietly turned its Ramayapatnam cumene licensor hunt from an indigenous contest into a global race. The technical bar and 24-week BEDP clock stand firm, but bid security is lighter and expressed in multiple currencies. The real story now lies in how global licensors price technology, catalysts and guarantees against an unchanged risk and schedule spine.
2) BPCL reissues phenol unit licensor tender as global competition with extended timelines
8BPCL and EIL have quietly scrapped the indigenous-only route and reopened the phenol licensor race to the global market. Dates, EMD and turnover thresholds have been reset, while the core technical bar for a 200 KTPA phenol unit remains unchanged. What this reissue does to bidder behaviour, technology choice and schedule risk is where the real story lies.
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8BPCL has quietly turned its Ramayapatnam cumene licensor hunt from an indigenous contest into a global race. The technical bar and 24-week BEDP clock stand firm, but bid security is lighter and expressed in multiple currencies. The real story now lies in how global licensors price technology, catalysts and guarantees against an unchanged risk and schedule spine.
2) BPCL reissues phenol unit licensor tender as global competition with extended timelines
8BPCL and EIL have quietly scrapped the indigenous-only route and reopened the phenol licensor race to the global market. Dates, EMD and turnover thresholds have been reset, while the core technical bar for a 200 KTPA phenol unit remains unchanged. What this reissue does to bidder behaviour, technology choice and schedule risk is where the real story lies.
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8ONGC has bundled four OALP Western offshore blocks into a single 3D broadband acquisition-and-processing campaign with tight fair-weather schedules and in-India imaging mandates.
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8Intimation of Receipt of Tariff Order from Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board [PIL] Details
8Essar Ports: Building digitally enabled green and smart ports [Essar] Details
8Essar’s senior leadership share their views on RBI Monetary Policy – December 2025 [Essar] Details
8Monthly CGD Progress Report As on October, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Corrigendum Issued: PNGRB Extends Bid Submission Timelines for Devangonthi–KIAL ATF Pipeline Project [PNGRB] Details
8CSL secured a Significant* order from a European Client for constructing advance electric ‘TRAnsverse’ tugs [CSL] Details
8Review of Crisil Ratings on the bank facilities of South West Pinnacle Exploration Limited [SWP] Details
8Notice of change in situation of registered office of the Company in newspapers [Petronet] Details
8CARE Ratings Places GSPL’s Bank Facilities on Rating Watch with Developing Implications [GSPL] Details
8Re-Appointment of Arun Kumar Singh as ONGC Chairman for One-Year Term [ONGC] Details
8Re-appointment of Independent Director [IGL] Details
8Cancellation of Scheduled Investors/Analyst Meet [HPCL] Details
8Essar Ports: Building digitally enabled green and smart ports [Essar] Details
8Essar’s senior leadership share their views on RBI Monetary Policy – December 2025 [Essar] Details
8Monthly CGD Progress Report As on October, 2025 [PNGRB] Details
8Corrigendum Issued: PNGRB Extends Bid Submission Timelines for Devangonthi–KIAL ATF Pipeline Project [PNGRB] Details
8CSL secured a Significant* order from a European Client for constructing advance electric ‘TRAnsverse’ tugs [CSL] Details
8Review of Crisil Ratings on the bank facilities of South West Pinnacle Exploration Limited [SWP] Details
8Notice of change in situation of registered office of the Company in newspapers [Petronet] Details
8CARE Ratings Places GSPL’s Bank Facilities on Rating Watch with Developing Implications [GSPL] Details
8Re-Appointment of Arun Kumar Singh as ONGC Chairman for One-Year Term [ONGC] Details
8Re-appointment of Independent Director [IGL] Details
8Cancellation of Scheduled Investors/Analyst Meet [HPCL] Details