1) Commercial amendment widens acceptable fiscal year-ends for financial qualification in 600 KTPA VCM unit
8The amendment expands which audited year-ends can pass without triggering rejection risk, but it also hard-codes a comparability guardrail that bidders cannot game. What looks like a single paragraph change could reshape who shows up at the bid table and how defensible evaluation becomes later.
 
2) Integrated hydro processing block: Bid deadline pushed twice
8The owner tightens the IHP licensor playbook around “highest NPV” scoring. The real fight is shifting to what the NPV model rewards and which licensors can live with the embedded assumptions.
 
3) Bid due date pushed thrice as BPCL/EIL tighten PFCCU licensor risk template
8BPCL’s PFCCU licensor package has quietly stretched by nearly two months, and the change trail suggests it isn’t just calendar drift. The technical edits tighten stream guarantees and utilities boundaries in ways that can directly move licensor pricing and yield-risk appetite. The commercial architecture, meanwhile, is hardening around liability and dispute resolution, reshaping who can realistically stay in the race.
 
4) Commercial amendment tightens price format compliance and locks liability red lines for the DCU licensor package
8BPCL and EIL have turned what looks like routine tender hygiene into a set of hard rejection levers for the delayed coker unit licensor race. The revised price schedule and the re-written liability architecture jointly reshape how licensors will price guarantees, proprietary supplies and IP exposure. The most consequential shift is not the headline cap, but what the carve-outs and patent declaration quietly keep outside bidder comfort.
 
5) Commercial amendment locks Cumene licensor liability cap
8The Cumene licensor tender just hardened its commercial perimeter in a way that will reshape who can stay in the race. The headline cap looks bidder-friendly, but the carve-outs keep the sharpest exposures alive where technology risk is most expensive. The bigger signal is procedural: accept the liability regime upfront, or expect rejection.
 
6) Commercial amendment hardens liability and patent declarations for phenol unit licensor bid
8The owners have turned liability acceptance into a bid gate for the phenol licensor selection, not a post-bid negotiation. The revised cap looks bidder-friendly on paper, but the exception list and patent declarations shift the sharpest risks back onto licensors.

8The refiner high-sulphur crude reality into a long-tenure asset play, pushing bidders to own the sulphur-forming plant inside the refinery fence. The scope reads like a full process-unit delivery plus decades of reliability risk, with safety studies and pgtr baked into the expectation set.

1) ONGC extends two-rig drilling bundled services bid deadline
8This is for the hiring of drilling bundled services for 2 rigs (3000m DP drillship and 500m am rig).
8The pre-bid trail shows selective clause edits where specifications collide with field reality, while logistics risk and rig-time exposure stay firmly on the contractor.
 
2) ONGC’s rig Sagar Bhushan GSAC spares tender carries a new date-line
8The real risk lever is the “no deviation” discipline and the way tax exposure can flip onto suppliers during extension periods.
 
3) Oil India extends Andaman offshore acid treatment and fracturing bid
8Oil India extends Andaman offshore acid treatment and fracturing bid for two-well offshore acid treatment and fracturing.
8Oil India has pushed its Andaman offshore acid treatment and fracturing tender out to 16 January 2026, after an initial 31 December close.
8The timeline move sits alongside a high EMD and strict instrument-receipt rules that can quietly reshape who is even able to stay responsive.
8The real story is what the extension implies about stimulation-market depth and offshore readiness, and how OIL is using process levers to protect competitive tension.
 
4) Oil India limited extends CDO0884P26 bid closing to 16 January 2026 for Assam-Arunachal facilities pipeline and piping works in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
8Oil India limited has pushed its CDO0884P26 pipeline and piping works tender out by eight days, moving both bid closing and technical opening to 16 January 2026.
8The extension lands without any stated relaxation in the tender’s cash-lock and compliance perimeter, keeping the procedural elimination risks alive.
8What matters now is whether the extra runway is enough to pull in serious brownfield contractors—or whether the tender’s unanswered technical surface still constrains participation.

8The refinery has quietly framed a decision-critical financial model mandate for the Bina refinery LOBS and hydrocracker revamp with unusually soft schedule penalties but hard tax-payment gates. The contract design mixes a two-week turnaround intent with acceptance-linked milestones, while leaving key quality and remedy levers largely outside the excerpt. The single-bid award adds another layer: less price discovery, more dependence on governance and scope discipline

1) Galaxy takes L1 for BPCL Kochi refinery Zone 1 exchanger RC, but the price ladder splits sharply
8BPCL has awarded a three-year exchanger maintenance rate contract in Kochi refinery’s zone 1 with a visibly bifurcated price stack. The L2 quote lands just outside the 15% purchase-preference edge, a boundary that often decides whether the award remains purely L1-driven. The contract structure shifts quantity and productivity risk onto the contractor, setting up a high-scrutiny execution cycle.

1) Two-bidder technical opening tightens the fight for BPCL’s BPREP DCU off-gas compressor package
8BPCL’s Bina expansion compressor tender has reached technical opening with only two bidders in play. The qualification matrix is built to force field-proven frames and eliminate “paper performance” risk before pricing. The repeated extension trail hints at how hard it is to assemble a compliant package submission under this structure.
 
2) BPREP stainless vessel package draws 31 technical bids under a zero-deviation gate
8Thirty-one bidders showed up, but the real contest is not the headcount. The zero-deviation rule and gated price opening can quietly shrink the field before commercials begin. The document set also signals licensor-grade confidentiality and milestone-linked cash controls that will matter as much as fabrication capacity.

1) IOCL Gujarat refinery’s LuPech N2O2 O&M ARC tightens 24x7 performance accountability while ringfencing core maintenance
8IOCL Gujarat refinery is not buying manpower, it is buying documented, penalty-backed performance under a reverse auction construct. The scope split quietly keeps IOCL in control of maintenance and the control system, while pushing operational outcomes, reporting burden, and labour governance enforcement onto the contractor.
 
2) Bid due date slips 74 days for cooling water booster pump package in BPCL Kochi polypropylene project
8BPCL’s Kochi polypropylene build is watching a utility-critical pump package drift from late October into January. The document insists extensions aren’t envisaged, yet the timeline keeps moving—exactly the kind of mismatch that changes bidder behaviour. The unanswered question is whether this is participation stress, unresolved scope friction, or a portal-driven bottleneck.
 
3) Five-step bid extension pushes NRL’s RG condenser tender further in PPU project
8EIL’s RG condenser RFQ for NRL’s polypropylene unit has run through five deadline extensions, ending at 16 Jan 2026. The document language signals strict portal-gated participation, yet the timeline shows repeated concessions to time. The reason is not stated, but the pattern points to a market-response or clarification bottleneck with real schedule and pricing consequences.
 
4) Bid due date pushed by 49 days for reciprocating gas compressor package in Dahej project
8EIL has extended the reciprocating gas compressor package bid timeline deep into late January, a 49-day reset that usually signals more than routine admin. The pre-bid trail shows bidders pushing back on cashflow and scope boundaries, while EIL largely refuses to reopen the contract frame. One date field now conflicts with the extended close, creating a quiet credibility test for tender administration.
 
5) BPCL Kochi refinery’s boiler and IBR piping rate contract gets a 7-day deadline push and a tube-expansion billing cap
8A 50-tube cap inside one service line item forces bidders to price classification risk, not just manpower and welding capability. The extension buys time, but the real pressure point is how these micro-rules shape post-award disputes and margin behaviour.
 
6) NRL hardens vendor, wage and bidder-provisioning rules in corrigendum-2 for NREP RPTU instrumentation works
8The update lands right as bid submissions open, forcing bidders to re-price tooling, consumables and labour compliance with limited cycle time. The market now has to decide whether this is routine governance—or a deliberate filter that reshapes who can realistically compete.
 
7) Corrigendum-3 hardens vendor, ITP and “no supply” boundaries for instrumentation works for NREP RPTU unit
8A revised master supplier list, an instrumentation ITP, and new annexures on contractor-provided tools and consumables collectively shift the risk map inside the priced package. The most consequential change is a single-word deletion in the sor that could determine where “supply” liability starts and ends.

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8Request for proposal (RFP) for e-bidding of crude oil sale from Ravva and ONGC block [DGH]  
8Supply of RLNG to Fertilizer Plants in India on Ex-Terminal Basis [GAIL]
8Disposal of Section 9 arbitration petition pursuant to settlement with Asian Energy Services Limited [SEAMEC]
8Nomination of director on the board [Petronet]

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8C9 Solvent rose Rs 8/kg this week, lifting the domestic market into a firmer near-term posture

8Butyl Carbitol has been flat through the past fortnight, with no visible change in the domestic market

8Butyl Acrylate Monomer gained this week, reclaiming levels lost earlier in the month. 

8Butyl Cellosolve rose modestly this week, recovering from earlier softness.

8Butyl Acetate remained unchanged this week, continuing a multi-week streak of stability. Prices are steady compared with three months ago.

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8Palm Oil was flat this week after slipping earlier in the month. Prices remain lower than levels seen three months ago.

8Carbendazim was unchanged this week, extending a period of sideways movement. 

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