ONGC, Coast Guard avert shipwreck in Mumbai offshore
NEW DELHI: State-run explorer ONGC and the Coast Guard on Monday averted a mishap on the high sea after an empty LPG tanker went adrift near the company’s installations in the Arabian Sea.
On May 19, a total of 75 people had died as an accommodation barge Papaa 305 deployed under ONGC contract and carrying 261 on board broke anchor in cyclone Tauktae and sank after hitting a nearby ONGC offshore platform off the Mumbai coast. Another 11 died as tugboat Varapada capsized.
According to a company statement, LPG vessel ‘Gas Yodla’ was on its way to UAE’s Fujairah port from Mongla, Bangladesh on July 24 when it reported engine failure at 6.35 p.m. and started drifting about 20 nautical miles from ONGC’s D1 field off the Mumbai coast.
