8DEG is higher by Rs 5/kg over the past month but has paused this week. 

8Palm Oil is steady compared with three months ago, following gains earlier in December

8Carbendazim slipped Rs 2/kg over the past month and has since moved little

8Dicalcium Phosphate is unchanged this week after gaining Rs 3/kg in the previous fortnight

8Liquid Chlorine is down Rs 4/kg over the past month, despite a firmer week

8C10 Solvent is up Rs 2/kg versus six months ago, with only minor movement recently. 

8Pendimethalin is down Rs 10/kg over the past fortnight, keeping the domestic market soft

8Phosphorus Oxychloride rose Rs 3.00/kg this week, pushing back to the top of the recent range

8Hexaconazole is higher than last year, but recent movement has been muted

8Cyhalothrin is lower by Rs 90/kg versus three months ago, keeping the broader tone soft

8Chloroform is up Rs 7.00/kg over the past month, keeping the domestic market firm

8Anionic Surfactants fell Rs 2.00/kg this week, keeping the tone soft despite a steadier longer view

8Formaldehyde is down Rs 0.50/kg over the past fortnight, with only minor daily moves. The week-to-week change was also small, keeping the domestic market steady.

8Elastomer Polyether is unchanged versus six months ago, even after a softer month view. 

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1) Hindustan Zinc Limited: Paying up
8A compliance matter is being closed with a quantified cash penalty and formal disclosure hygiene
 
2) Nagarjuna: New ED (Operations) in place
8NFCL is putting operations under a long-tenured insider with explicit P&L and risk framing
 
3) Rallis India Limited: Change in senior management (Seeds R&D)
8Rallis is scripting a seeds R&D leadership transition with a staged senior management designation

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

8Notice inviting offers for exploration and development of oil & gas blocks under HELP–OALP Bid Round-X [DGH]
8Outcome of shareholders’ general meeting and approval of asset disposal [Synergia]
8Declaration of result for engagement of part-time medical professionals at PNGRB [PNGRB]
8Resignation of statutory auditor [Confidence Petroleum]
8Intimation of resignation of Mr. Brij Mohan Bansal as independent director [AES]
8Intimation of extension of tenure of Shri Madhu Sankunny Nair as chairman and managing director [CSL]
8Cessation of Mr. Gagan Bihari Pattnaik as vice president ESG and sustainability [Refex]
8Change in director of the company [Petronet]
8Intimation of trading window closure in connection with declaration of financial results [HOEC]
8Notice inviting offers for exploration and development of CBM blocks under OALP – Special CBM Bid Round 2026 [DGH]

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1) Owner callout slickline tender hard-codes no-pay downtime and asset-ownership gates
8It is buying reservoir decisions, not slickline time, and it is spelling that out through pay conditions that switch off the meter during breakdowns and compliance failures.
8The qualification bar quietly shifts from paperwork to provable asset ownership and verifiable similar-work value, tightening the vendor funnel before price even matters.
8The clauses that look routine on the surface become sharp once mapped to a 5000 psi, 160°c operating window where tool reliability decides both data quality and cashflow.
 
2) OVL’s CPO-5 WBCO tender hardwires parallel-well readiness and local price-matching leverage
8The package reads like a cleanout tender, but the technical spine is built for overlapping wells and document-heavy tool integrity.
8A quiet currency-evaluation mechanic and a municipal local-preference match-down rule sit in the background, capable of flipping how bidders price risk and timing.
8The bigger tension is a scope baseline that doesn’t fully agree with itself—exactly the kind of mismatch that decides who can bid aggressively and who has to hedge.
 
3) SPM maintenance-diving support vessel EOI window extended
8The real filter remains technical and fleet-led: ISM compliance, IACS class, FiFi-1 and a 25-year age cap shape who can even show up.
8What bidders do next will reveal whether this is a simple participation push or a symptom of tighter-than-expected supply of compliant tonnage.
 
4) ONGC extends charter hiring of 06 helicopters tender opening
8The move comes after multiple corrigenda that tighten bid currency, local/import content declarations, and exchange-rate fixing tied to price bid opening.
8The extension may look administrative, but it reshapes bidder strategy on FX exposure, documentation readiness, and bid-shape compliance.
 
5) Oil India’s Sadiya integrated drilling service tender extended again
8The extension chain now stretches more than a year beyond the original schedule, yet the corrigenda keep every other tender condition frozen.
8What the documents do not say—why the market still hasn’t cleared—may matter more than the dates themselves.

8ONGC’s western offshore clamp on project throws up a tight 1.8% fight for the top slot, but a sharply higher third bid changes the pricing narrative.

1) Five extensions push the API 617 compressor bid out by 72 days
8This usually signals participation or compliance friction inside a tightly-filtered oem pool. The longer runway will test whether bidders can lock motor/VFD provenance and confidentiality governance without pricing in extra risk.
 
2) A six-step extension chain rewrites the bidding tempo for BPCL’s BPREP column package
8The tender moved through six dated pushes. That cadence often reflects either thin participation or slow-moving clarifications. The absence of stated reasons forces bidders to infer the promoter’s intent from timing alone.
 
3) Four bid due date extensions push NRL’s PPU special purpose compressor tender out by 48 days
8This suggests a pattern that usually signals either participation stress or unresolved scope friction. The technical-commercial evaluation bundle is unusually broad for a rotating equipment package, pulling commissioning, FAT, HAZOP and multi-year maintenance into the price lens.
 
4) Two-step bid deadline extension stretches purge gas recovery membrane package by 25 days
8The unit is being evaluated like a full package lifecycle, not a simple equipment buy, with 3D modelling, HAZOP participation, and OEM site activity priced into comparison.
 
5) Bid timelines extended for propylene and ethylene tower catalyst package
8This is without changing the underlying reverse auction, qualification, or delivery posture. For a non-regenerable purification catalyst buy that protects pp unit stability, the extension looks like a participation and documentation safeguard rather than a scope rethink.
 
6) BPCL extends SAF pathway PFR bid to 10 Jan 2026 while keeping licensor-cost risk on bidders
8BPCL has quietly added a one-week breathing space to its SAF pathway PFR tender, shifting the bid deadline from early January to 10 January. But the extension lands inside a document stack where platform-set eligibility signals collide with buyer overrides, and bidders are told to self-fund licensor-gated inputs anyway. The result is a tender that looks routine on dates, yet remains structurally high-friction on qualification certainty and estimate defensibility.
 
7) IOCL extends bid timeline for SADC shutdown / DCU low-throughput mechanical jobs
8This is buying time without visibly loosening qualification gates.

1) This polypropylene project sets up a second pre-tender reset on qualification gates for PFCCU revamp composite works
8A second pre-tender meeting is being used to rewrite tentative qualification criteria, a move that can quietly redraw who even gets to price this schedule-stressed revamp. The real story is whether the promoter widens the market to secure competition or tightens it to protect integration risk, and how that choice reshapes bid aggression.
 
2) MSW-CBG feasibility tender hard-filters bidders to 100 TPD study credentials while keeping award strictly L1
8The eligibility bar is engineered around prior 100 TPD MSW-CBG feasibility certificates, which narrows the field before price even enters the room.
 
3) This refinery shutdown bolting tender tightens hydrocarbon-experience filters while keeping reverse auction off
8The owner is treating it as a reliability-critical discipline, not a generic mechanical service, and the eligibility language quietly shows it.
 
4) EU reach registration of bioethanol project needed with success-linked payments
8The commercial sting is that registration-linked payments are released only after “successful EU REACH registration”, shifting iteration and acceptance risk into the consultant’s balance sheet.