OIL plans to cap blowout by November
Oil India Limited has said that it will be able to “resolve” the gas well blowout at Baghjan in Assam by November.
At the company’s 61st annual general body meeting on Tuesday, Oil India chairman and managing director Sushil Chandra Mishra said: “We have been able to divert the gas flow. A team is arriving from Canada for the stubbing process. Everything remaining equal, we will be able resolve (the) Baghjan (blowout) by November.”
The blowout at Baghjan in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district, around 530km from here, occurred on May 27 and is still to be controlled completely. It has affected over 8,000 local residents and the ecology of the area.
