E&P contracting brief: Part I – 24 Dec 2025

1) ONGC tightens directional drilling bid with appendix-1 SDMM compliance grid and ATC overwrite in directional drilling services8ONGC’s latest corrigendum is less about dates and more about control: it hardens how bidders must prove SDMM and jar compliance, hole-section by hole-section.

The move also resets the buyer-added ATC layer, signalling a governance clean-up before bid opening.

2) Oil India’s CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing tender shows a January 2026 extension trail,8Oil India’s four-year CTU–NPU–FPU well servicing package is showing a deadline drift that stretches into January 2026

3) Bid clock extended to 29 December 2025, but the compliance data-chain burden stays heavy in ONGC/Odalarevu onshore terminal CAAQMS and CEMS8ONGC has pushed the Odalarevu CAAQMS–CEMS tender deadline out to 29 December 2025, extending the runway for a submission that is more systems integration than instrument supply

4) Bid window keeps stretching for OIL’s one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing package8Oil India limited has repeatedly moved the clock on its one set CT–NPU–heated FPU well servicing tender while keeping the security and liability backbone largely intact.

The clarifications that do land are operationally sharp, tightening how maintenance downtime and operating-charge triggers will be policed.

5) ONGC’s Rajahmundry hydraulic fracturing and coiled tubing tender gets another clock-reset8ONGC has already used a mix of portal-extension, scope surgery and commercial easing to keep the Rajahmundry HF+CT package alive without rewriting the technical spine.

6) Oil India’s 3000 HP rig hire tender is pushed to 08 January 20268Oil India has extended the bid close again, taking its 3000 HP rig-package tender into January 2026.

The more material signal sits behind the dates: securities validity and multiple technical acceptability bands have shifted while the promoter keeps “all other terms” formally intact.