With the natural gas leak from an oil well in Assam’s Tinsukia district continuing for the seventh day on Tuesday, government-owned Oil India Limited (OIL), which owns the rig, said that it had reached out to global experts to control the blowout.
The blowout — an uncontrolled release of natural gas — was reported on Wednesday last week when a producing well under Baghjan Oilfield unexpectedly became “active” during operations.
On Tuesday, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal called Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan for the second time in the week requesting help, including announcing adequate compensation for the victims. The Joint Secretary from the Union Petroleum Ministry has been directed to rush to the site to take stock of the situation.
