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8Acquisition of RoU for Cauvery asset pipelines in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu [Gazette]
8Acquisition of right of user for Silchar–Panisagar section of North East natural gas pipeline grid project in Assam [Gazette]
8Acquisition of RoU for Koral–Dabka GGS underground pipeline in Gujarat [Gazette]
8LPG profile report for FY 2025–26 [PPAC]
8Centre notifies Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules, 2025, replacing 1949 and 1959 frameworks [MoPNG]
8PNGRB invites stakeholder comments on draft data bank and information system regulations, 2025 [PNGRB]
8PNGRB extends bid submission timeline for Devangonthi–Kempegowda International Airport ATF pipeline project [PNGRB]
8Clarification sought on PNGRB NGPL tariff regulations amendment (07 July 2025) regarding interest-free security deposits [PNGRB]
8Hazoor Multi Projects allots 27.97 lakh equity shares on conversion of warrants; paid-up capital rises to Rs.24.35 crore [HMPL]
8G E Shipping contracts to buy a second-hand very large gas carrier [GES]
8Reliance Retail Ventures’ subsidiary Abraham & Thakore ceases to be subsidiary following transfer of control to founders [RIL]
8SEAMEC signs addendum to consent terms with Jumbo Offshore; arbitration proceedings concluded [Seamec]
8Afcons adjudged India’s most innovative company for 2025 [Afcons]
8IGL forms 50:50 joint venture with Hindustan Waste Treatment to develop compressed bio-gas and biofuel projects [IGL]
8Gujarat Natural Resources Board defers stock split; approves postal ballot for independent director regularisation [GNRL]

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

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

8With the tender now cancelled, the unanswered question is whether ONGC retenders with the same hard gates or recalibrates toward market capacity.

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

1) GSPC hardens GeM callout nitrogen tender
8GSPC’s GeM-based callout nitrogen tender quietly embeds oilfield-grade purity, pressure, and availability thresholds that go beyond generic industrial nitrogen supply.
8These performance baselines effectively pre-filter the vendor universe before commercial discovery begins.
8The structure suggests GSPC is prioritising operational certainty over wider price-led participation.
 
2) EOI screens for ISM-compliant vessel for SPM
8The EOI uses the front-end screening stage to hard-filter vessels on ISM compliance, class, and safety management attributes that are often negotiated later in marine charters.
8The operating model introduces an O&M business partner interface, subtly reshaping instruction authority and acceptance risk at the SPM.
8A compressed EOI window further sharpens exclusion risk for borderline-compliant owners.
 
3) ONGC Cauvery asset effluent water tanker hire award shows a 10.1% L2 gap as L1 undercuts the estimate by 12.6%
8ONGC’s Cauvery asset has awarded the three-year effluent haulage contract at a price materially below its internal estimate.
8The 10.1% L2 gap indicates disciplined bidding, but the 12.6% undercut versus estimate leaves little buffer for execution slippage.
8Waiting time, routing, and utilisation risks are structurally loaded onto the contractor, turning compliance into the primary margin defence.
 
4) Pre-bid queries trigger a second bid extension to 08 January 2026, signalling substantive tender ONGC/Trombay–Uran crude transfer pipeline replacement reset
8ONGC’s second bid deadline extension is explicitly tied to pre-bid queries and subsequent addendums, not routine timeline relief.
8The linkage signals that bidders are expected to rework submissions against revised clauses and compliance matrices.
8Each reset raises participation cost and tests which bidders can sustain diligence through evolving tender architecture.
 
5) ONGC lowers financial entry gates for Ahmedabad asset fire protection LSTK revamp
8ONGC’s latest amendment leaves the fire protection revamp scope intact but rewrites the financial qualification thresholds.
8The move widens eligibility without diluting technical responsibility under the LSTK model.
8The signal is a recalibration toward competition enhancement rather than scope softening.

1) Oily sludge recovery award tightens around a sub-estimate L1 at ONGC cauvery asset’s NRM GGS
8ONGC’s NRM GGS tender hard-codes output specs for oil, water, and solids, but refuses to guarantee minimum sludge volumes.
8The award spread shows two near-L1 challengers and a separate high-priced tier that appears to be pricing in mobilisation and compliance risk.
8What the bid language does not say about dispute resolution and measurement protocol may matter as much as who won.
 
2) Split award locks in two firms for safety-valve calibration and spares work asset
8ONGC’s Ahmedabad asset has split its safety-valve servicing and calibration work across two firms, signalling a preference for continuity capacity over single-vendor dependence.
8The line-item awards show sharp dispersion in values, hinting at very different work baskets hiding inside the BOQ.
 
3) ONGC Eastern Offshore asset awards VCI oil buy for G1 terminal compressor preservation
8ONGC’s eastern offshore asset has routed a compressor-preservation chemical buy through a single-tender, single-bid pathway that narrows price discovery by design.
8The award value is modest but the delivery runway and compliance architecture shift the real risk into timing, documentation, and GST discipline.
 
4) ONGC’s 2D broadband offshore seismic tender draws hard QC lines as bidders press for process and logistics relief
8ONGC is buying 2D broadband line kilometres, but it is selling almost none of the execution discretion back to contractors.
8Participated bidders are probing for relief on empanelment carry-over, monsoon demob/remob accounting, and modern data delivery.
8The answers reveal where ongc will correct document mismatches—and where it will not trade away QC leverage.
 
5) ONGC’s FMS for process instrumentation and field infocom systems tender is extended to 08 January 2026
8ONGC has pushed the bidding timeline on a technically broad FMS package that touches SCADA, RTU/DCS, instrumentation and power systems across 145 production installations and 57 rigs.
8The bid structure keeps reverse auction off and surfaces a hard performance posture via KPI-linked execution expectations.
 
6) Date extension keeps ONGC heavy electrical machines repair RC in play
8ONGC’s repair RC is not a “rewind job” tender; it is a test-gated reliability contract where acceptance bands and joint inspections do the policing.
8The real story is what the extension is trying to fix—participation, compliance readiness, or unresolved risk pricing—without conceding a single technical safeguard.

1) Bid timeline extended to 27 December 2025 for reservoir field services call-out package
8ONGC’s MBA basin reservoir field services tender has been extended to 27 December 2025, but the extension is not a soft reset.
8Superseding price and SCC formats tighten the commercial rulebook, even as bidders attempted to reopen mobilisation and standby economics.
8ONGC largely closed those vectors, choosing instead to clarify how day-rate edge cases will be paid, turning the extension into a filter on operational discipline rather than a concession on risk.
 
2) ONGC extends RJY asset torque turn services tender as SOW hard-wires HP-HT tubing envelopes
8The RJY asset torque turn services tender has been extended with a scope of work that now explicitly locks in HP-HT tubing envelopes.
8This hard-wiring of technical limits narrows acceptable operating flexibility and pushes risk back onto service execution rather than specification debate.
8The open question is whether ONGC is using the extension to genuinely widen participation in a thin, high-spec vendor pool or simply to let unresolved clause friction cool without yielding ground.
 
3) Pre-bid clarifications flagged as uploaded, but clause-level deltas stay off-page for wireline logging units
8Oil India limited has confirmed that pre-bid conference outcomes have been uploaded under the amendments channel, without reproducing clause-level clarifications in the amendment itself.
8With Rs 8.00 crore bid security and a four-year services horizon, bidders’ exposure concentrates on the unseen Q&A responses rather than the base tender text.
8The posture signals tight contract governance, but leaves decisive technical and commercial reallocations verifiable only through direct review of the response sheet.

1) GAIL’s VSPL LPG pipeline safety tender hard-codes risk contours for all scenarios, shifting QRA liability onto the agency
8The real contest will be between firms that can model and evidence risk credibly across a long, multi-site LPG system and those that only know how to format conclusions.
 
2) BPCL hard-locks MR TA 2026 UPS spares to Vertiv channel
8The proprietary gate and deviation discipline compress the bidder universe, while compliance-linked payment mechanics quietly reshape working-capital risk.
 
3) HPRGE’s 20 mw/28 MWP maharashtra solar PMC tender
8It turns consulting into open access optimisation plus day-zero document control
 
4) Bid deadline extended by 7 days for drone inspection package ahead of TA
8BPCL’s Mumbai refinery is using drone thermal and visual inspections to pull failure signals forward of the RMP-DHT turnaround window. The bid clock has been pushed by 7 days, but the bigger story is how the portal-driven pricing rules and security compliance stack quietly reshape who can even bid. The tender reads like a speed-and-control play—yet one clause mismatch hints at governance seams that vendors will watch closely.
 
5) Bid deadline pushed as IOCL’s QCBS leadership competency and assessment-centre tender seeks a viable field
8The extension lands in a limited-tender universe with portal-configured auto-extension mechanics, hinting that participation and compliance are the real constraints. What matters now is how bidders use the added days to harden the “quality story” without triggering the common GeM/ITB rejection traps.
 
6) IOCL’s Paradip refinery leak detection system tender stretches twice, then ends in a cancellation
8Two deadline extensions quietly changed the competitive physics before the tender was ultimately marked cancelled.

8The ethylene cracker licensor package is being rewritten into a tighter, less negotiable contract even as the bid window keeps slipping. Payment-term “creativity” is now explicitly penalised, and the dispute path is steered away from arbitration and toward promoter-controlled sequencing. The quiet question is whether the tender is filtering for only a handful of licensors—or signalling unresolved risk that bidders refuse to price blind.

8The regulator has quietly converted a routine date-extension cycle into a market-structure intervention. Clarifications restate that pipeline design includes connected infrastructure including storage and line balancing. Bidders warn duplication inflates project cost and tariff, but PNGRB largely holds the line

1) Sole technical bidder emerges for comp-recipro (labyrinth) package in NRL’s PPU project
8With only one technical bidder disclosedcompetitive discovery weakens.
 
2) Three-bidder technical opening after EIL’s late flare-system add-on tightens the desuperheater contest in PLL Dahej PDH-PP project
8A specific vendor list for control valves and accessories is introduced with the amendment. That reduces make variance but also narrows sourcing flexibility for bidders. It can drive hidden cost differences depending on each bidder’s approved supply chain
 
3) IOCL’s Haldia refinery super Sucker MOSRU hire tender sees 7 bidders but only 2 clear technical gate
8The SCC quietly loads availability risk onto the contractor through “extra crew at no cost”, emergency readiness, and a 24-hour repair expectation. With a buyer-set floor price and no reverse auction, the real contest shifts from price theatrics to documentation strength and execution depth.

1) IOCL’s Nagapattinam compression consultancy award crystallises into a two-bidder race with a 31.6% L2 premium
8The quiet story sits in the compliance tightening—IBC screening, bid hygiene rules, and security instruments that may have shaped who could even stay in the room.
 
2) L1 pricing breaks below estimate, but the asset class is response-critical in IOCL/WRPL Vadinar MOSRU
8The unanswered question is where the contractor plans to absorb compliance and uptime costs without degrading readiness.
 
3) IOCL Panipat refinery’s CCRU shutdown catalyst replacement award lands at estimate
8This is, while the rest of the field prices 44%–111% higher.
 
4) IOCL locks Lupech reliability into a dashboard-led rotary monitoring ARC
8The company then lands a wide-spread two-bid award
 
5) Parivesh lands a sharply underpriced eia/emp mandate for coal gasification to SNG plant at Bardhaman
8The price ladder is extreme, with L2 sitting roughly two-and-a-half times L1, raising questions about what “liaisoning” will really cost once MOEFCC queries start.
 
6) Rotostat undercuts the field to win BPCL Mumbai refinery ta 2026 package 3 lobs nhgu part a, with a 27.2% jump to l2
8The tender’s amendments quietly relax early mobilisation while hardening readiness enforcement through specific minimums and penalties. The combination sets up a contract where compliance capacity, not just price, decides who survives day one.
 
7) MRPL’s scaffolding ARC award turns into a two-bidder contest with a 195.0% price gap
8The contract’s dual-vendor intent adds a second layer of tension that will matter more than the headline L1 number.

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8Hindustan Zinc shareholders approve appointment of independent and government nominee directors via postal ballot [HZ]
8Super Crop Safe Limited board approves preferential issue, director appointment, and EGM notice [SCSL]
8Mr. Natarajan Srinivasan ceases as whole-time director and executive vice chairman w.e.f. 20 December 2025 [Coromandel]
8NFL appoints Shri Anurag Rohatgi as government nominee director on board [NFL]

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