Oil India and ONGC personnel will take the first shot at capping the May 27 oil well blowout in upper Assam despite the arrival of three experts from Singapore who reached Duliajan, Oil India’s field headquarters, in the wee hours of Monday.
A senior Oil India official told The Telegraph that experts from Singapore-based company M/s Alert Disaster Control visited Baghjan, the affected site around 530km east of Guwahati, for stock-taking around noon after a briefing at Duliajan about the developments so far.
“The foreign experts have hit the ground running, but we will be taking the first shot at capping along with experts from ONGC on Thursday. The actual operation takes between two to three hours. If our operation does not yield the desired result, the experts from Singapore will take over,” the official said.
