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8The scope bars the service provider from recruiting personnel who worked in company jobs  in key roles during the six months before LOA.

8The multi-utility vessel charter quietly rewires both pricing mechanics and operational risk.
8Mobilisation, demobilisation and ancillary charges are now hemmed in by hard caps and a new “limiting of charges” undertaking, while a quantified penalty looms over any platform contact.
8What this does to bidder behaviour, margins and fleet choices will only be visible once the commercial bids are locked in.

8A new tripartite agreement format forces sister subsidiaries and ultimate parents to step in if the front-end bidder fails.

8ONGC has also rewritten how mobilisation and safety history will be judged

8IOCL’s new maintenance tender for TPS boilers and HRSGs raises the reliability bar with strict one-year no-failure conditions. The scope bundles high-pressure valve work, APH balancing, and burner revisioning into a round-the-clock execution model. Contractors face tighter safety, IBR, and mobilization requirements that reshape the risk profile of routine shutdown work.

8Three successive amendments have bought bidders seventy extra days without yielding any relaxation on the Rs 8 crore bid security, 3% performance security or four-year term.
8Whether this is tactical schedule management or a sign of thin early interest will only become clear once the bids finally open.

8The unusual extension chain comes without any relaxation in scope, responsibilities or qualification norms. Contractors now need to reconcile stringent VRU capacity rules with a compressed delivery window.

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8Techno-economic clauses are modified and they change how catalyst, co-catalyst and adsorbent costs will be modelled across operating cycles.
8Design pressures for critical steam and boiler-feed utilities have also been upgraded, tightening licensor design obligations.
8Training load, hydrogen purity tables and BEDP deliverable definitions have been simultaneously clarified, signalling a sharper evaluation framework.

1) Offshore well testing NIT packs digital data demands and high-spec safety kit into tough commercial frame Oil India KG DSF-II Andaman
8Oil India’s new offshore well testing tender for KG DSF-II and Andaman blocks reads more like a full-field evaluation charter than a simple spread rental.
8SSTT redundancy, sour-service ratings to 10,000 psi, WITSML real-time data and strict ESD integration all sit alongside a near Rs 1 crore EMD and a 5% ePBG.
8How bidders price and qualify these obligations will decide whether this becomes Oil India’s new template or a one-off high-bar experiment.
 
2) Participated bidders push ONGC drill pipe spinner tender towards broader OEM eligibility but tighter long-tail guarantees
8Four international bidders have stepped into ONGC’s drill pipe spinner tender just as the company rewrites key clauses on delivery, guarantees and qualification.
8Some clarifications clearly favour contractor logistics and wider eligibility, while others quietly lock in longer-tail performance security for ONGC.
8The still-opaque reply on multi-lot shipments and LC payment will decide how far the risk needle really moved after participation.
 
3) Six domestic crane houses vie for 10T EOT package under tight PPP-MII and cash-flow terms in ONGC
8Six Indian crane and fabrication players have lined up for ONGC’s 10T EOT crane job at Nhava, but the paper trail of their clarifications is missing.
8A 100% local-content bar, long-tail performance security and gantry frame design liability all remain on the table as originally drafted.
8The real question now is whether ONGC has quietly softened any of these edges behind closed doors — or intends this template to stand untouched.
 
4) Bid submission for Aframax tanker SBM charter extended to 02 December 2025 in ONGC Mumbai High crude logistics
8ONGC has quietly given tanker owners an extra week to line up RoFR-compliant Aframax tonnage for its Mumbai High SBM charter.
8The technical bar and DG Shipping age norms remain untouched, but the window for TPIA-backed documentation and pricing has shifted.
8Whether this seven-day reprieve broadens competition or merely formalises existing interest will be visible only at techno-commercial opening.
 
5) Bid closing for fishbones drilling system in Baghewala extended by seven days to 02 December 2025 in Oil India Baghewala PML
8Oil India has given bidders an extra week to price and structure a highly specialised fishbones drilling package for five Baghewala horizontal wells.
8The extension leaves a tough EMD/ePBG regime and dense technical responsibilities untouched, making time the only relaxation on offer.
8Whether that is enough to deepen competition without slipping the project’s heavy-oil timetable is the question the full note explores.
 
6) ONGC CPD Mumbai whipstock tender hardens GCC and documentation rules even as pre-bid replies are followed by a surprise bid-date extension.
8ONGC’s whipstock tender pre-bid meeting shuts the door on GCC/BEC negotiations but opens up a long list of promised written clarifications.
8Bidders are warned that one mis-step on e-BG or TPIA could cost them a three-year offshore service contract.
8Yet the later extension of the bid closing date hints that schedule rigidity may give way when operational realities bite.

8The heavy-wall vessel package has now undergone four deadline shifts, stretching the bid window by two full months. Fabricators appear to be recalibrating feasibility around plate availability, forming limits and ODC transport. The extensions reveal tightening market capacity.

8The reshapes the process design baseline
8Grade-change assumptions, PMS ownership, utility pressures and BEDP timelines all undergo targeted correction.
8The shifts narrow bidder flexibility and re-centre control with the Owner.

1) Five-round deadline drift reshapes bidder calculus in ONGC Hazira
8The ONGC Hazira composite pipeline tender has now slipped by 83 days through five successive extensions. Each notice carried only a one-line date shift, with no supporting clarifications or scope changes. The prolonged drift raises questions about bidder readiness, technical alignment, and the evolving risk appetite around this revamp package.
 
2) Five-step deadline drift marks BPCL Kochi PP pump package
8EIL extended the LCWS pump tender deadline five times, pushing closure more than a month beyond the original date. The unusually long drift points to documentation-heavy requirements and possible vendor readiness gaps. What this means for competition, sequencing, and downstream engineering sits behind the wall.
 
3) Fourth extension pushes BPCL BPREP column-tower bid window to December
8BPCL and EIL have pushed the carbon-steel column and tower package deadline through four successive extensions. Vendors now have until 04 December to submit bids for one of BPREP’s most fabrication-intensive scopes. The elongated window hints at a stretched vendor pool and high document-processing demands.
 
4) EIL extends Butene-1 licensor bid deadline to 11 December
8EIL has shifted the Butene-1 licensor submission deadline to 11 December, adding a 15-day buffer to the original timeline. The move comes without any accompanying technical or commercial changes. The extension subtly widens the competitive window in a tender driven by heavy documentary qualification.
 
5) Bid deadline for labyrinth compressor package pushed twice in NRL PPU project
8The COMP-RECIPRO package has received two consecutive extensions beyond the original 17 November deadline. Vendors now have until 1 December to complete NDA-gated documentation and align with the MR requirements. The delay reshapes evaluation timing but leaves scope and conditions untouched.

8Sale of natural gas from Rajasthan block [DGH]
8Public consultation on concept note for national integrated CBG promotion scheme [MOPNG]
8PNGRB monthly bulletin – September 2025 [PNGRB]
8Announcement for receipt of letter of award [SWP]
8Joint venture agreement with CEID Consultants & Engineering Private Limited for compressed bio gas projects [IGL]

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