1) PFCCU block tender tightens COS guarantee and bans VHP steam trading in amendment
8The consultant quietly rewrites what “compliance” means for a key PRU stream by turning COS into a tighter guarantee-grade number. In the same breath, it removes a common energy-integration escape hatch by prohibiting VHP steam import and export during normal operation.
 
2) BPCL’s 600 KTPA VCM licensor tender tightens the vendor funnel
8The VCM licensor selection is being shaped less by price mechanics and more by reference-unit gatekeeping and documentation policing. The pre-bid replies show calendar relief, but not enough to neutralise foreign bidder friction, while governance clauses still sit in a grey zone unless formal amendments land. The biggest story is how a “clarification-only” regime can still change bidder risk pricing without changing the contract on paper.
 
3) BPCL’s Ramayapatnam DCU licensor bid tightens entry gates
8BPCL and EIL are running the Ramayapatnam delayed coker licensor selection like a compliance stress test as much as a technology shootout. A bid-validity conflict has been decisively settled in favour of a 12-month lock-in, while multiple “on hold” technical and economic inputs remain parked for later amendments.
 
4) Cumene licensor tender tightens PQC gate and timeline, even as amendment drops OTS workstream
8Authorities are holding the line on bid timelines despite holiday-driven extension requests. At the same time, a technical amendment quietly removes one of the most interface-heavy deliverables licensors often dread. The combination reshapes both who can qualify and where execution risk will surface later.
 
5) Phenol licensor tender tightens Acetone Benzene to 2 PPMW and corrects caustic basis to 20 WT%
8The real question is which licensors can absorb the design-and-guarantee implications without inflating their risk premium.

8The tender quietly rewired field delivery by collapsing pipeline execution from four spreads into one. The award landed with an extreme price discontinuity between L1 and L2 that forces a rethink of what “credible” PMC costing looks like for cross-country pipeline supervision.

1) GAIL’s Pata PC-1/PC-2 operational assistance tender cuts 16 bidders to six on technical gates
8GAIL’s GeM configuration and document-forensics approach is doing as much market-shaping as the scope itself. The tender’s technical admissibility rules make “bid hygiene” a qualification criterion in disguise, and the early technical funnel shows it. The next pressure point is whether the qualified set faces a constrained pricing corridor under a floor price without reverse auction
 
2) HRRL tightens the gate in AMPL Gujarat O&M support tender as only 4 of 72 bidders clear technicals
8HRRL’s AMPL Gujarat staffing tender reads like a routine facility management buy, but the task list is pipeline-critical in all the ways that matter.

1) Winner takes both schedules in gail’s Cathodic Protection study and redesign tender
8The owner splits the package into two schedule-wise awards—one for diagnosing the C2C3 plant CP, another for designing cp for four underground lpg storage vessels. One bidder has walked away with both schedules at prices that look lean enough to raise “scope tightness” questions.
 
2) GGL picks Jointvalues as L1 for BRSR core reasonable assurance, with CNK trailing at a 9.1% premium
8The award spread is tight enough to signal competition, but the real margin story sits in verification intensity and how much variability the winner priced in.

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8Dergaon–Dimapur NEGG pipeline section gazette notification published in Assam [Gazette]
8North East Gas Grid project Siliguri–Gangtok section gazette notification published in West Bengal [Gazette]
8NFL spur line re-route in Punjab sees right of use gazette notification [Gazette]
8Aegis Logistics unit enters agreement to sell majority stake in Hindustan Aegis LPG [Aegis]
8Asian Energy Services rejigs board committees [AES]
8Deployment status of vessel “Seamec Agastya” [SEAMEC]
8Adani Total Gas board to consider Q3 results on January 22 [ATGL]
8Change among directors of the company [Petronet]
8Appointment of joint managing director [GSPL]
8GAIL revises completion schedule for Srikakulam–Angul pipeline project [GAIL]
8GAIL revises completion schedule for Kochi–Koottanad–Bengaluru–Mangalore pipeline [GAIL]
8GAIL revises completion schedule for key pipeline sections [GAIL]
8Hindustan Petroleum commissions world’s first LC Max unit at Visakh refinery [HPCL]
8Change in senior management personnel [IOCL]
8The illusion of choice in TPIAs: operators face a shrinking pool of valid inspectors

8Here's what's happening today in the E&P & midstream-downstream section

8Deepak Fertilisers discloses final order in compounding matter by regional director, MCA [Deepak Fertilisers]
8Paradeep Phosphates seeks shareholder nod for key resolutions including borrowing limit hike and director appointments [PPL]
8Resignation of Mr. Abhishek Reddy Rachur as company secretary and compliance officer [TGEIL]
8GNFC announces resignation of director Sanjeev Kumar, IAS [GNFC]
8GSFC appoints Dr. Rajender Kumar as managing director [GSFCL]  
8NFL Invites e-Tenders for Supply of City Compost for Multi-State Marketing (2026–27) [NFL]
8NFL Invites e-Tenders for Supply of Micronutrient Fertilizers for Multi-State Marketing (2026–27) [NFL]
8NFL Invites e-Tenders for Supply of Granulated Potash Derived from Molasses for South Indian States (2026–27) [NFL]
8NFL Invites e-Tenders for Supply of Potash Derived from Molasses for Multi-State Marketing (2026–27) [NFL]
8GNFC Invites Short-Term Natural Gas/RLNG Supply Bids for Bharuch Plant Project Execution [GNFC]

8ABS is down Rs 5/kg over the past month in Mumbai. Weekly values were flat, but the market remains below the levels seen in early October

8Over the past fortnight, PBT has slipped Rs 5/kg even as the last week was unchanged. 

8PP rose Rs 1/kg this week in Chennai

8Acetone is lower than six months ago, but it has held firm in early January after a late-December dip

8Acetic Acid is down Rs 1.5/kg over the past fortnight even as the latest week edged higher

8Acrylonitrile rose Rs 7/kg this week, pushing back to levels last seen in late summer. 

8Propylene Glycol is up Rs 0.75/kg this week, extending a gentle rise over the past month

8PAM is up Rs 3/kg this week after softer levels through late December

82-Ethylhexanol gained Rs 2/kg this week, reversing part of the late-December softening

8Dioctyl Terephthalate is up Rs 7/kg over the past fortnight, adding to a firmer start to January

8Diisobutyl Phthalate is down Rs 3/kg on the week, but the month comparison is flat

8Spirodiclofen slipped Rs 10/kg this week, extending a clear multi-week decline

8Polyethylene Glycol slipped Rs 2/kg this week, but it is still higher than it was three months ago. 

8Neopentyl Glycol is steady compared with three months ago, but it remains at the softer end of its recent history

8BDGE is unchanged on the week, but it has slipped Rs 9/kg over the past fortnight

8Mono Chloro Benzene edged up Rs 1/kg this week, but the bigger feature is how little it has moved over the past month

8LAB bulk prices are lower than last month after gradual easing