{"id":357035,"date":"2020-06-12T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357035"},"modified":"2020-06-12T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:03:39","slug":"assam-fire-in-oils-gas-well-in-tinsukia-periphery-doused-experts-from-us-canada-to-join-efforts-to-control-remaining-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-fire-in-oils-gas-well-in-tinsukia-periphery-doused-experts-from-us-canada-to-join-efforts-to-control-remaining-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Fire in OIL\u2019s gas well in Tinsukia periphery doused; experts from US, Canada to join efforts to control remaining blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire in the periphery of Oil India\u2019s gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district has been doused after sustained efforts of fire fighters and at the moment only flowing gas is burning at the mouth of the well, a senior official of the PSU said on Thursday. Though no peripheral burning is taking place at the moment at the well\u2019s site at Baghjan, the company has declared an area up to 1.5 km radius as \u201cred zone\u201d to avoid any untoward incident and harm to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow only the flowing gas is burning at the mouth of the well. We have declared an area with 1.5 km of radius as a red zone so that no outside person comes near the site. It is being done as a safety measure,\u201d Oil India Ltd (OIL) Senior Manager (Public Affairs) Jayant Bormudoi told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire in the periphery of Oil India\u2019s gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district has been doused after sustained efforts of fire fighters and at the moment only flowing gas is burning at the mouth of the well, a senior official of the PSU said on Thursday. Though no peripheral burning is taking place at the moment at the well\u2019s site at Baghjan, the company has declared an area up to 1.5 km radius as \u201cred zone\u201d to avoid any untoward incident and harm to the general public. \u201cNow only the flowing gas is burning at the mouth of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357035","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}