8PAM showed no weekly change after minor fluctuations earlier in the quarter

82-Ethylhexanol was unchanged this week following a sharp decline earlier in the month

8DOTP was steady this week after sharp moves earlier in the quarter. 

8DIBP fell again this week, marking its third consecutive weekly decline

8Spirodiclofen was unchanged this week after a mild slide earlier in the month

8Neopentyl Glycol rose this week after earlier weakness through December

8Polyethylene Glycol eased marginally this week after steady movement through the month

8BDGE slipped Rs 3/kg this week, extending its recent downtrend

8Mono Chloro Benzene was steady this week with no net price change. 

8LAB was unchanged this week following a small drop earlier in January

8TDI rose this week after slipping earlier in the month

8BPA rose sharply this week after a strong fortnight

8DINP moved modestly higher this week after a quiet start to January. Prices are up on a monthly comparison.

8POP Polyether was steady this week after earlier losses

8BDO extended its decline this week, marking a third consecutive weekly loss

8Propionic Alcohol slipped slightly over the past two weeks after holding steady earlier

8Isobutanol was unchanged over the past fortnight, with weekly movement remaining minimal

8Adipic Acid fell sharply this week after holding steady earlier in the month. 

8ONGC successfully establishes well control at Mori-5 in record time of five days [ONGC]
8ONGC advances towards subduing and capping well Mori #5 [ONGC]
8IGL announces postal ballot for Dr. Shyam Agrawal’s one-year independent director extension [IGL]
8Well Mori #5 gas leak fully contained; no injuries reported [DIL]
8Change in senior management personnel [IOCL]

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

8The investment is in a new fluorinated chemical facility.
8Additionally, the board sanctioned a Rs. 500 Crores capital raise via QIP.

1) SunPetro’s Gujarat flowline rate contract sets a multi-field execution playbook
8But contract-tenure ambiguity could reshape bidder pricing 
 
2) SunPetro’s Bhaskar CPF piping rate contract hard-caps escalation and pushes landed logistics risk onto suppliers
8SunPetro is trying to turn CPF piping availability into a governed, callout-driven supply chain rather than a series of ad-hoc buys.
8The tender’s escalation maths and inspection posture quietly decide who can bid without pricing in a volatility premium.
8But the real fight will be over which clause-set actually governs submissions, securities, and currency.

8The scope reads less like a drawing-led procurement and more like a statutory-risk transfer instrument. The tender language quietly makes ceig-driven changes and “unstated but essential” items a bidder-funded problem inside a turnkey envelope. The contractors who price this right will not be the cheapest on BOQ, they will be the ones who understand where approvals, licensing, and documentation will bite.

1) Eight extensions push reciprocating compressor (PIAS) bid by 93 days
8BPCL’s BPREP reciprocating compressor package has seen a rare eight-step extension ladder, taking the bid deadline from 13 Oct 2025 to 14 Jan 2026. The paperwork architecture is high-control: portal-only submission plus NDA-gated access to technical content with long-tail confidentiality obligations. The key question now is whether the extra 93 days converts into real participation or merely defers a deeper bid-ability issue.
 
2) Bid due date slips 80 days for pump-cent.horizontal (LCWS) package
8BPCL’s Kochi polypropylene build is watching a utility-critical cooling-water pump tender drift from late October into mid-January. The RFQ text says extensions are not envisaged, yet the deadline has moved 11 times—an inconsistency bidders will price as process risk.
 
3) BPCL pushes carbon steel columns/towers bid deadline by 100 days through seven xtensions
8Bina expansion columns/towers package has been extended seven times, shifting the bid date from 15 Oct 2025 to 23 Jan 2026. The scope still hard-codes full shop hydrotests and site seam NDT/PWHT with hydrotest, so time relief does not equal risk relief. The final bid set will reveal whether the friction is participation-driven or execution-method driven.
 
4) Commercial amendment hardens EMD originals and rewires dispute handling for the demountable flare package
8BPCL’s BPREP flare package isn’t just getting a date-stamp update; the amendment changes how bidders get filtered and how disputes get channelled. The bid-security pathway now has a physical-original trapdoor with short cure windows, while arbitration language is stripped out of SCC in favour of GCC dispute resolution. The smallest-looking line on week-counting in price reduction could end up being the costliest one to misread.
 
5) HPCL extends FCC catalyst co-development EOI by 57 days, stretching the R&D-to-limited-tender funnel
8HPCL’s FCC catalyst EOI is not a routine buy—it is a performance funnel that starts with yield claims and ends with a limited tender. Two date extensions now shift the gateway timeline by nearly two months, with knock-on effects for who stays in the race. The document’s most consequential risks sit in what’s not visible yet: evaluation criteria, IP protections, and the commercial guardrails.

1) IOCL’s Paradip gas phase reactor consultant bid tightens governance with limited tender gating and a 40-month ePBG tail
8The fine print shifts risk away from bid-stage friction and into long-tail bank guarantees and expandable duration, which quietly changes who can afford to compete. The real story will sit inside how IOCL defines milestone acceptance for commissioning and closeout because without tight acceptance language, “consulting” starts behaving like delivery accountability.
 
2) GAIL’s Ambikapur 14 TPD CBG plant PMC bid hardwires design-basis control and subsidy accountability
8The tender is being structured like a process-plant rollout, with the PMC asked to lock design bases, police hazop closure, and keep approvals moving. The hidden contest is whether a “two-market” dispatch model (pipeline plus cascades) forces higher integration than the headline capacity suggests. A few lines in the scope quietly shift the messiest risks—feedstock continuity, manure monetisation, and documentation-heavy clearances—into places bidders can’t easily price without sharper boundary conditions.
 
3) BPCL Mumbai refinery’s 2026–2028 engineering consultancy rate contract makes raw stress models and software outputs a mandatory deliverable
8BPCL Mumbai refinery is quietly rewriting what “engineering consultancy” means by demanding not just drawings, but the full calculation trail and model files behind them. The rate contract’s rapid two-day response rhythm and three-to-fifteen-day job cycle turns staffing depth into the real qualification filter.
 
4) HPCL’s Visakh refinery RLA bid forces parallel API teams and 40-day site clocks for CDU-III and FCCU-II certification
8HPCL is asking for a two-year integrity certification of CDU-III and FCCU-II, but it is structuring the job like an execution sprint rather than a slow RBI refresh. The fine print hard-bakes mobilisation, staffing approvals, and report deadlines into the contractor’s risk stack while pushing price discovery into reverse auction.
 
5) GAIL tightens entry and commissioning discipline in Uran Usar pipeline (UUPL) package
8GAIL’s Uran Usar pipeline (UUPL) package is written less like a “line laying” contract and more like a propane system handover, with acceptance tied to inertisation quality and stability run conditions.