Three foreign experts, involved in control operations at Oil India Limited’s (OIL) Baghjan 5 well in Upper Assam, suffered burn injuries after a fire broke out near the wellhead area on Wednesday afternoon.
For almost two months now, the energy major has been trying to plug the blowout, first reported on May 27 in the Baghjan oilfield, located close to the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland in Tinsukia district.
On June 7, experts from the Singapore-based Alert arrived to control the blowout. Subsequently, the well had caught fire on June 9, complicating matters further.
“Today in the afternoon, three experts from M/s Alert namely Anthony Steven Reynolds, Doug Dallas and Craig Neil Duncan suffered minor burn injuries while removing a spool from the wellhead,” said a release from OIL on Wednesday evening.
