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1) Andhra Pradesh cracker licensor tender bid due date slips by 105 days after four extensions
8BPCL’s flagship Andhra Pradesh ethylene cracker license tender has quietly slid from a two-week sprint to a four-month marathon. Four successive bid due date extensions now separate the original 29 August deadline from a revised 12 December close. The paperwork does not say why, but the delay will echo through every downstream EPC and utilities package.
 
2) Licensor bid deadline for LLDPE/HDPE swing unit slips by over two months after four extensions
8EIL’s LLDPE/HDPE swing unit licensor tender has now moved from an 8 October to a 15 December 2025 bid deadline. Four extensions in a high-stakes BEDP and proprietary package raise questions about bidder readiness and internal alignment. The real impact will only be visible once downstream EPC sequencing and award timelines begin to react.
 
3) BPCL PFCCU licensor pre-bid responses keep 12-month bid validity and tight timelines at the Andhra Pradesh refinery
8BPCL and EIL have refused a six-week bid extension and a cut in bid validity from twelve to six months. The PFCCU licensor community must now decide whether they can live with a long commercial lock-up in a volatile market. How this shapes participation and pricing will determine how competitive the eventual PFCCU award really is.

8BPCL’s Ennore terminal has quietly pushed a critical OWS/ETP revamp through GeM with no EMD and no PBG, but a notably hard PQC and HSE spine. Seven bidders walked in; only two have made it past technical filters. The way this hybrid GeM-plus-GCC construct behaves in the financial round could shape how BPCL buys environmental infrastructure over the next few years.

8ONGC’s three-year intelligent pigging tender has quietly narrowed the field to a handful of high-end companies

Iffco, Coromandel, PPL and Wilson are all in the market for December-loading sulphur cargoes.
8But sellers are pushing premiums that weren’t on the table a week ago.
8Buyers want volumes—but at prices the market is no longer offering.
8Lower offers from non-mainstream origins briefly sparked interest.
8But paperwork hurdles and slow voyages are killing conversion. 

8Find out why this argument is being made
And who is making it

India cannot look to "cheap US gas forever".
8That world is changing. And very rapidly
8The global LNG game is switching rapidly.
8FLNG for example is the new supply source
8Something strange is going on in the Middle East
8And only agile players will make the grade out of India 

8Engagement of Legal Consultant on Contract Basis in the Department of Fertilizers [DOF]
8Agromet Advisory Service Bulletin for Andhra Pradesh [IMD]
8Intimation of Order Passed by JC–Appeals in GST Demand Proceedings [DFPCL]
8Intimation of Interim Orders on Compounding Application Under Section 441 [DFPCL]
8Revised Outcome Filed for Correction on Promoter Re-classification Requirement [KICL]
8Allotment of 22.16 Crore Equity Shares Pursuant to Composite Scheme of Arrangement [PPL]

8On a single day in the Rajya Sabha, the fertiliser ministry assured Parliament that supplies were “adequate” in Bihar, Tamil Nadu and across India – even in reply to a question titled “Acute shortage of DAP”.
8The numbers look comfortable on paper.
8But pro-rata math, centralised allocation and dashboard monitoring are building a Soviet-style blindness to what is actually happening on the ground

8SSP is the flavour of the season
8But why is this company in a default mode?

8Find out more

8Here is a Rs 800 crore acquisition by a fertilizer company
8And it is now tightening its grip

8Only long-term and formula-linked supply arrangements continue to anchor the lowest India landing numbers.

8Only long-term and formula-linked supply arrangements continue to anchor the lowest India landing numbers.

8Why have prices fallen?
8How far further will they fall?

8An $8 billion desi fertilizer company is not a joke: this growth that happened right before our eyes
8In an suffocating environment in which a bureaucrats pen can push you deep into the red. Many companies tried to escape by going into different verticals but that may not have been the right choice: for they should have built on their core strengths instead of foraging into areas they do not fully understand.
8This company did not defy regulation by gaming policy.
8It defied regulation by building around it — vertically, digitally, geographically, and technologically. And this is a lesson for everyone to learn
8How did the company do it?
8And what does it plan ahead?

8Project Name: Jhansi District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 250 crore Click here for more details

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

8Entrustment of additional charge of the post of CVO, ONGC, Delhi [DP&T]
8Partial Commissioning of the North East Natural Gas Pipeline Grid (NEGG) by Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL) [PNGRB]
8Re-employment of Shri Arun Kumar Singh as Chairman of the Company [ONGC]
8Press Release on ONGC and Petronet LNG Limited Executing 15-Year Ethane USH Services Binding Term Sheet [Petronet]
8Grant of “Navratna” Status to Numaligarh Refinery Limited by the Department of Public Enterprises [OIL]
8Reliance Industries Limited and Surrey announce their partnership in Oval Invincibles franchise in The Hundred [RIL]

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8Late-stage amendments have quietly transformed a two-asset, two-year HF and CT tender into a leaner one-year campaign 

1) ONGC Eastern Offshore Asset single-tenders OEM VCI oil for G1 terminal compressor preservation under tight best-price and GST governance
8ONGC’s Eastern Offshore Asset has quietly locked in a single-source supply of OEM VCI oil for preserving process gas compressor packages at G1 terminal.
8The scope looks small on paper—just 600 litres of NOX RUST VCI 1100—but the tender wraps it in heavyweight best-price, OEM-invoice and GST compliance machinery.
8How that balance between single-tender comfort and pricing discipline actually plays out for long-term preservation and supply-chain resilience is what bidders and operators will be watching.
 
2) Pre-bid replies tighten tax regime and correct asset anchors for fire-water LSTK revamp in ONGC Ahmedabad Asset
8ONGC’s pre-bid-driven corrigenda for the Ahmedabad fire-water LSTK tender look deceptively clerical: a few address changes here, a revised customs clause there.
8Underneath, they shift concessional customs and GST, lock all correspondence into Ahmedabad Asset and compress a three-day site-visit window across 18 installations.
8How bidders translate this mix of regulatory clarity, higher tax cash-outs and tighter operational choreography into final LSTK prices and risk premiums is where the real story now lies.
 
3) Pre-bid queries push ONGC CCTV LSTK tender towards an indigenous, analytics-heavy and OEM-anchored surveillance stack
8Behind the polite language of the pre-bid replies, ONGC has quietly confirmed that this CCTV project is really about trusted, analytics-centric surveillance, not just camera counts.
8Bidders have tried to dilute experience norms, ease OEM obligations and normalise hardware specs, but most of those efforts have been turned back or shunted to tightly controlled corrigenda.
8What remains to be seen is how many players can actually clear this new bar when the bids finally open.
 
4) Tie-breaker, option clause and group-backed service providers reshape qualification and competition in ONGC’s GeM whipstock tender.
8ONGC has quietly used successive corrigenda on its GeM whipstock tender to tweak who can qualify, how ties are resolved and how far it can flex quantities.
8A 25% option clause, GeM-driven tie-breaker and new room for group-backed service providers now sit alongside unchanged, tough penalties and mobilisation requirements.
8Whether this recalibration broadens competition without diluting performance is what bidders and rival tenders will be watching next.

1) Seven-day GeM bid extension keeps Mehsana rig earthing contract open as ONGC balances safety-critical scope with bidder depth
8ONGC Mehsana has quietly pushed the closure of its three-year rig earthing GeM bid from 3 December to 10 December 2025 without touching EMD, PBG or LD.
8The move comes on a technically dense, safety-critical scope that demands 24/7 support across drilling and workover rig movements.
8What this extra week does to bidder appetite, pricing discipline and the asset’s broader outsourcing playbook is where the real story now lies.
 
2) Bid window for HDPE pipe and fittings CBM package stretched to 10 December as Prabha Energy keeps securities and LDs unchanged
8Prabha Energy has quietly added 21 days to the bidding calendar for its North Karanpura CBM HDPE pipe and fittings tender without touching EMD, PBG or bid validity.
8The move comes after a Schedule-III clean-up that tightened SDR-11 compatibility and metricised key fittings, increasing the engineering workload on bidders.
8What this longer runway does to participation, pricing discipline and the balance between mill-backed suppliers and traders is where the story really begins.
 
3) Seven-day bid extension tests new rig-vintage flexibility in Odisha Mahanadi charter hire
8Oil India has quietly pushed the bid closing for its Odisha Mahanadi 1400 HP rig charter by seven days after earlier insisting no extensions would be entertained.
8The move lands just after a sweeping relaxation of rig-vintage norms and the insertion of a 25 percent option clause, without any change to stiff EMD and performance security locks.
8Whether this short reprieve deepens competition or merely compresses the execution calendar is what bidders — and the basin’s drilling schedule — will now reveal.
 
4) HPWBM 40-well mud services tender gets 34-day time relief as OIL India weighs bidder depth against strict security regime
8Oil India has quietly shifted the bid closing for its four-year HPWBM mud services tender from mid-November to 18 December 2025.
8The extension comes without any visible softening of a stiff Rs 2.86 crore EMD, 3% performance security for 52 months or a 25% option clause on quantity and duration.
8What this extra month does to bidder appetite, pricing strategy and OIL’s long-term HPWBM partnering options is the real story sitting behind the new calendar.

8The owner has framed it around unusually specific paddy-straw experience and heavy performance securities. That combination has already winnowed the technical field down to a single qualified consultant. The real story now is what this means for pricing power, challenges from the disqualified bidder, and future CBG tender design.

1) Tight EIL standard specs and just two bidders set the tone for Hazira pipeline revamp technical bids
8Engineers India Ltd has opened technical bids for a composite pipeline revamp at ONGC’s Hazira complex under some of its toughest standard specifications. Only two contractors have stepped up to work inside that welding, RCC and HSE straightjacket. What that means for risk, margins and future ONGC revamps is not yet visible at this stage.
 
2) Two of four bidders clear technical gate for steam and insulation survey rate contract at BPCL Kochi refinery
8A two-year rate contract to probe steam leaks and insulation losses across BPCL Kochi refinery’s heaters and boilers has quietly narrowed its bidder field. Four service providers entered the fray, but only two now stand technically cleared. What that shortlisting says about technical stringency, vendor depth and upcoming price dynamics is less obvious than the bare numbers suggest.