ONGC nicely blowout in Assam: Gas leak continues for fourth day, 70 households shifted

#Assam Chief Minister #Himanta Biswa Sarma stated the federal government is anxious concerning the blowout, which is but to be managed.

“The chief secretary has spoken to the company officials. We are in touch with ONGC and came to know that more experts have reached the spot,” he instructed reporters in #Dibrugarh.

ONGC Director Vikram Saxena reached the spot on Saturday and a crew led by him took over operational management of nicely no. RDS 147, the place the blowout passed off.

“The well killing process is going on, and we have mobilised all necessary equipment for the same. The Crisis Management Team is working on war-footing to control the leakage,” an official instructed PTI.

The nicely has not caught fireplace but and nobody is injured within the incident, whereas all emergency providers have been pressed within the space, he added.

The blowout passed off on June 12 at nicely no. RDS 147 of rig no. SKP 135 of Rudrasagar oil area of ONGC at Barichuk of Bhatiapar. A personal agency, SK Petro Services, was working the nicely on behalf of the state-run Maharatna firm.

“A comprehensive well control plan has been formulated, and pumping operations commenced following the successful installation and testing of essential connections,” ONGC stated in a press release.

A joint crew of ONGC #Assam Asset and the #Sivasagar district administration is actively partaking with native residents, who had been evacuated from close by areas as a precautionary security measure, it added.

A senior official of the #Sivasagar district administration instructed PTI that round 1,500 folks have been affected within the neighborhood of the nicely.

“They are getting the smell of gas and are not able to light their stoves or burn anything. We are providing them with cooked food and constantly monitoring the situation,” she added.

From the realm of the blowout, 70 households have been shifted to a reduction camp arrange in close by #Bangaon and all crucial preparations are being made to make sure their welfare and well-being, the #Sivasagar district administration stated in a #Facebook publish.

“There are currently doctors from the Health Department and Animal Husbandry Department at the scene. They are examining the health conditions of both people and their domestic animals,” it added.

#Raijor Dal president and #Sivasagar MLA #Akhil Gogoi visited the blowout website within the morning and mentioned the continuing train with senior ONGC officers.

“They tried to cap the well yesterday, but failed. They are working on it now and will be able to tell tomorrow how long it might take to finally stop the gas leakage,” he instructed reporters after his assembly with ONGC senior officers.

Gogoi stated that ONGC officers instructed him it’d take not less than three extra days to completely management the nicely as a result of big strain of fuel.

“They also told me about a geographical wonder. This was a crude oil well, but they discovered a huge reserve of gas. According to them, this well alone can supply gas to entire #Assam for the next 125 years,” he claimed.

An official of ONGC had earlier stated that it was an previous crude nicely with out manufacturing and a perforation job was happening for zone switch on the time of the blowout.

“It is a kind of servicing of the well. The production was supposed to start from a new zone after the perforation job. At the time of the incident, the logging perforation operation was going on. Suddenly gas started coming out in an uncontrolled manner immediately after the perforation, leading to the blowout,” he had added.

This ONGC incident reminded folks of the worst industrial catastrophe of the Northeast in 2020, when an OIL nicely blowout took away the lives of three staff of the PSU main and injured a number of others.

Well no. 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district spewed fuel uncontrollably for 173 days since May 27 and it caught fireplace on June 9, 2020.

In a multi-agency effort, the broken fuel nicely at Baghjan in #Assam was ‘killed’ and the blaze was totally doused on November 15, adopted by abandoning of the nicely on December 3 in 2020 after finishing all steps to regulate it.

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