{"id":356559,"date":"2020-06-10T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T05:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356559"},"modified":"2020-06-10T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T06:22:59","slug":"inferno-at-assam-oil-well-may-take-four-weeks-to-extinguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/inferno-at-assam-oil-well-may-take-four-weeks-to-extinguish\/","title":{"rendered":"Inferno at Assam oil well may take four weeks to extinguish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: An oil well in Baghjan in Tinsukia district of Assam, where a blowout occurred last month, exploded into a massive inferno on Tuesday, injuring one worker and razing houses in a nearby village. Oil IndiaNSE -1.42 % Ltd, the field operator, said it will take at least four weeks to douse the fire.<\/p>\n<p>One person engaged in repairs sustained injuries, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The incident triggered protests in the area and an irate mob damaged a couple of Oil India\u2019s vehicles. Oil India has asked local administration officials to help maintain law and order so that experts can reach the site and start operations to control the fire. Company officials in nearby areas are being evacuated, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: An oil well in Baghjan in Tinsukia district of Assam, where a blowout occurred last month, exploded into a massive inferno on Tuesday, injuring one worker and razing houses in a nearby village. Oil IndiaNSE -1.42 % Ltd, the field operator, said it will take at least four weeks to douse the fire. One person engaged in repairs sustained injuries, it added. The incident triggered protests in the area and an irate mob damaged a couple of Oil India\u2019s vehicles. Oil India has asked local administration officials to help maintain law and order so that experts can reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}