8Lauric Acid is flat this week after slipping earlier in the quarter

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8EDC is steady compared with three months ago, maintaining levels reached in late 2025

8Dimethylformamide was unchanged this fortnight after small movements earlier in the month

8Methanol moved up by Rs 1/kg over the past week after holding steady through most of December

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8ONGC’s helicopter charter tender looks standard on paper, until bidder clarifications expose leasing-market constraints and DGCA-linked operational limits.
8The most consequential shift is not in aircraft specs, but in contract architecture—where a 3-year plan gives way to a 5-year reality.
8The remaining answers show where ONGC holds firm and where operators may still be carrying execution ambiguity.

8The execution layer of three company-owned ac/scr drilling rigs, but the scope quietly stretches into the interface zones where drilling time is usually lost.
8The tender’s embedded 3,000 HP obligation forces bidders to price scalability even if the day-one rig class is 1400/2000 HP.

8The documents still carry a coast-level inconsistency on where the first rig is meant to start, a detail that can swing mobilization and metocean risk. Behind the deadline story,
8ONGC’s real filter is administrative discipline—file naming, mandatory uploads, and no-deviation posture that can knock out bids before technical merit is even debated.

1) Participating bidders pushed for CTU flexibility and job certainty, but ONGC held truck-mounted specs and call-off risk
8ONGC’s participated-bidder clarifications show a deliberate refusal to soften the contract’s two hardest edges: one-day response across three assets, and zero minimum job commitment.
8Vendors tried to re-engineer the risk stack through trailer options, larger coil, penalty caps, and standby economics—and mostly hit a wall.
 
2) Participating bidders face a tighter “no cross-subcontracting” ringfence in Odalarevu CAAQMS-CEMS compliance package
8ONGC has tightened how bidders can execute this compliance-heavy job after participation, and the clause design is aimed squarely at preventing post-award bid-pooling.
8Warranty security has been softened even as execution control is tightened, shifting the risk mix in a long camc-tailed contract.
8The participating bidder set will now be tested less on “who can source analyzers” and more on who can own integration, commissioning, and regulator-facing uptime.
 
3) ONGC extends Rajahmundry hydraulic fracturing and coiled tubing services bid while fixing standby-rate pricing gate
8A seemingly small excel validation error around the standby cap forced ongc to re-issue the price breakup logic, turning the pricing template into a qualification gate.
8Behind the dates, the tender’s real signal is how aggressively the buyer is tightening document governance, onboarding discipline, and post-evaluation contestability.
 
4) ONGC resets buyer-atc terms and hardens upload compliance for MBCU hiring
8ONGC’s latest corrigendum does not tweak the scope, it rewrites which buyer-added terms are legally “live” for the bid.
8The quiet risk is procedural: one missed certificate or an unseen uploaded atc annexure can kill responsiveness even before technical merit is weighed.
8Behind it sits a deeper procurement signal on how hard ONGC is willing to screen the MBCU fleet and bidder discipline for four-year cementing logistics.

1) OIL wireline logging units tender pushed to a later date
8The shift comes after OIL confirmed that responses to pre-bid queries have been uploaded, resetting how bidders calibrate compliance, instruments, and pricing risk.
8What matters now is not the extra time, but what the uploaded clarifications quietly do to scope boundaries and bid survivability.
 
2) ONGC’s 1000 hp mobile rig charter tender for Ahmedabad and Mehsana extended
8ONGC has again pushed the submission and un-priced bid opening dates for its four-rig, 1000 hp mobile drilling package in Ahmedabad and Mehsana.
8The document trail shows a tight sequence of extensions with no declared changes to scope or qualification logic.
8The real signal is what repeated date shifts reveal about rig availability and compliance readiness in the onshore charter market.
 
3) ONGC’s Dahej firewater line tender issues a minimal corrigendum that unlocks site access
8ONGC’s corrigendum does not touch dates, securities, or scope language, but it quietly fixes the one thing bidders need to price a brownfield piping job: real access.
8A named on-site engineering gatekeeper can compress uncertainty premiums and change who dares to bid tight.
8The compliance risk is whether bidders keep “what we saw on site” inside formal pre-bid channels or let informal information asymmetry creep in.

8Find out more on what is going on here

8The lifecycle record now shows 15 extensions from the original 18-mar-2025 close, signalling persistent friction between scope certainty and bidder appetite.
8Behind the date change, the more material story is what still remains unresolved at bid stage—and how that reshapes pricing discipline for an interface-heavy lstk petrochem package.

8The delayed coker unit licensor tender is used to pin down design assumptions earlier than most refinery projects do.
8The pre-bid replies quietly shift the risk line on feed characterisation, review effort, and “typical” package boundaries.
8The real question is which licensors price the governance load cleanly and which ones try to fight it through deviations.

1) Petronet LNG-EIL draw hard battery limits for reciprocating compressor package in PDH-PP Dahej pre-bid queries
8Petronet LNG’s Dahej PDH-PP compressor package is being POLiced at the battery limit, not in the compressor cylinder. A single carve-out on condensed fuel gas handling could shift integration complexity away from the package vendor and into EPC scope. The pre-bid answers also quietly settle a VFD applicability ambiguity that can swing pricing and compliance.
 
2) 20 MW/28 MWP solar plant in maharashtra by HPRGE
8The extension comes days after a clarification package that largely refused bidder requests to soften eligibility and legal templates. The tender’s scoring still favours Maharashtra PMC exposure and hard proof of open access commissioning, shaping who can realistically compete.
 
3) HPCL tightens bid governance for Butibori railway siding consultancy
8The latest corrigendum does not change the engineering end-goal, but it changes how bidders can survive the process.
 
4) IOCL extends on-call mobilisation window to 15 days in engineering services ARC for BDEP/FEED support
8IOCL’s latest corrigendum quietly rewires the execution engine of its BDEP/FEED support contract, moving the deployment clock from 7 days to 15. The change looks minor, but it rebalances who can bid credibly without carrying costly standby benches.

1) IOCL Mathura refinery hard-binds UF reliability with chemical inventory floors and a dispute-framework gap in ultrafiltration plant
8IOCL’s Mathura refinery is turning a utilities O&M tender into a quality-governed reliability contract, with UF permeate metrics driving performance expectations. The document quietly shifts execution risk into chemical supply discipline and “always-on” response behaviour, while reverse auction rules sharpen the margin fight. But one legal configuration stands out as an outlier and could reshape how bidders price downside on long-tail performance security.
 
2) IOCL hardwires split award and removes the 80% shortfall cushion in BR-09 radiography testing
8The real story is how compliance gates and a price-matching cascade together reshape who can bid—and who can survive execution.
 
3) PLL’s Dahej PDH-PP emergency DG tender hardens “exportable power” guarantees and SPRV liability in a 5.9 MWe package
8The qualification design locks bidders into a single point responsibility vendor posture, even when the supply chain is distributed. The real story sits in how these two levers reshape competition and commissioning leverage — without a single clause here explicitly calling it a risk transfer.
 
4) BPCL Mumbai refinery’s TA 2026 piping SOR tightens price bands and multi-vendor control
8The pricing corridor and “match L1” logic force contractors to compete on mobilisation credibility, safety gating, and documentation discipline rather than margin engineering. What looks like routine SOR language hides a sharper risk-transfer design that could reshape how vendors size manpower, logistics, and working capital for TA peaks.

8Project Name: Vijayawada District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 350 crore Click here for more details

8Project Name: Hyderabad District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore Click here for more details

These are tough times for gas based power stations
8Even APM-linked gas stations are not making it through the merit order system
8Forget about LNG-based system
8Now with pumped storage projects getting commissioned, quick fix power will come from them, making gas-based power even more redundant

8HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd, operator of the Bathinda refinery, has contested Punjab’s transmission tariff petition, arguing that PSTCL’s methodology unfairly burdens Extra-High-Tension (EHT) users with system losses and inflated projections.

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

8NGC enters ethane shipping through joint venture with MOL, Japan [OPAL]
8Request for proposal (RFP) for sale of natural gas from CB-ONN-2002/3 block (Manipur Field) through e-bidding [DGH]
8Request for proposal (RFP) for sale of crude oil from Ravva and ONGC blocks through e-bidding [DGH]
8Clarification on news report regarding alleged receipt of Russian oil at Jamnagar refinery [RIL]
8Update on well Mori-5 – Mori field operated by Deep Industries Limited [ONGC]
8Change in senior management personnel [IOCL]

8Agromet advisory bulletin for North Karnataka [IMD]
8Intimation of earnings call on Q3 & nine months FY26 unaudited financial results [MBAPL]
8Receipt of GST demand order under CGST/PGST Act for FY 2021–22 [PIIL]
8Appointment of managing director [GSFCL]

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8GSFC informed exchanges that its Nomination and Remuneration Committee met on 6 January 2026 and approved the appointment of Dr. Rajender Kumar, IAS as Managing Director, recommending it for board approval.