Bid to ‘kill’ Baghjan gas well fails

Hope turned into despair for both Oil India Limited’s field personnel and the blowout-hit as the operation to kill the Baghjan gas well failed on Tuesday afternoon.

OIL suffered another blow as four of its seniormost officials, including the chairman-cum-managing director S.C. Mishra, tested Covid positive on Tuesday, leaving the energy major in a spot because they were actively involved in the day-to-day operations to cap-and-kill the well, an official told The Telegraph.

“After the successful capping operations on Monday by placing the blowout preventer on the wellhead, our efforts to kill the well failed today because an underground casing valve ruptured and thus the kill fluid (liquid mud) did not reach its intended destination to stop the flow of gas,” OIL official Tridiv Hazarika said.