Global Expression of Interest (EoI) Under International Competitive Bidding (ICB) Process For Provision Of Well Construction And Facilities In Oil And Gas Blocks

Vedanta Group has $30bn revenue and $10bn profit and further plans to invest $20bn in next 4-5 years for the expansion of brownfield capacity and setting up green field capacity for oil and gas, renewable energy, display glass, semiconductor, mining and smelting. Vedanta is one of the leading players in the market.

Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd., is India's largest private oil and gas exploration and production company having current interest in 62 blocks and accounting for more than a quarter of India's domestic hydrocarbon production and a vision to achieve 50% of India's hydrocarbon production.

Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd., on behalf of itself and its Joint Venture (JV) partner (s) invites interested contractors with proven capabilities and demonstrated performance in similar requirement to express their interest to participate in the International Competitive Bidding (ICB) process for provision of well construction and facilities to take up production in oil and gas fields across all blocks operated by Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd. in India.

Brief Scope of Work: Cairn Oil & Gas intends to engage a reputed Business Partner with Techno-Managerial capability for developing oil and gas fields in RJ-ON-90/1 block that the Company operates on behalf of the Joint Venture and for other blocks where the Company has 100% operatorship. Scope of work involves end-to-end delivery of wells with facilities to take production. The scope of work would include but not limited to well pad development, well construction which would include drilling (including deviated/horizontals/laterals/multi-laterals), completion, testing and clean up flow, hook-up to surface facility, artificial lift deployment, surface facility creation to be hooked up to existing facilities in the field.

Fracturing and stimulation may also be required in some of the fields.

The scope of work may be split into well pad construction, well construction, completion and stimulation ready for hook-up and facility construction and ready to take production.

The EoI intends to engage partners with their sub-contractors which can support in reducing the project cost or/and accelerating the project execution. The EoI also intends to engage partners who may not have extensive years of experience but are willing to create a difference with limited previous experience.

In time, if required, production management may also be added which would mean fully fledged/partial O&M contracts as well as well services and workover operations.

Please note the below criterion may be used for qualification of vendors for current/ future tenders. The Company reserves the right to modify these criteria based on tender specific requirements.

The interested applicants should evince interest to participate in the Expression of Interest by clicking on the "Evince Interest" link against EOI listing on the Cairn website i.e., http://www.cairnindia.com within seven (07) days from this publication and submit their contact details online. Further to this, interested vendors would be invited to submit their documents via Smart Source (Cairn's e-Sourcing Platform)