{"id":357088,"date":"2020-06-12T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357088"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:32:37","slug":"assam-gas-well-fire-continues-to-rage-on-extent-contained-to-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-gas-well-fire-continues-to-rage-on-extent-contained-to-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam gas well fire continues to rage on; extent contained to the well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the natural gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) at Upper Assam\u2019s Baghjan in Tinsukia district is still raging on Thursday amid fears of widespread damage to the eco-sensitive area, two days after a blaze broke out and claimed two firefighters\u2019 lives while attempts were underway to plug uncontrolled gas and condensate release.<\/p>\n<p>The fire billowed to nearly 100 feet above the well, located barely a kilometre away from the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and the eco-sensitive Maguri Motapung wetland, situated a few hundred metres from the site.<\/p>\n<p>While the fire had spread to a nearby village and destroyed over 50 houses and many trees on Tuesday and Wednesday, the blaze was largely contained on the third day, according to OIL authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the natural gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) at Upper Assam\u2019s Baghjan in Tinsukia district is still raging on Thursday amid fears of widespread damage to the eco-sensitive area, two days after a blaze broke out and claimed two firefighters\u2019 lives while attempts were underway to plug uncontrolled gas and condensate release. The fire billowed to nearly 100 feet above the well, located barely a kilometre away from the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and the eco-sensitive Maguri Motapung wetland, situated a few hundred metres from the site. While the fire had spread to a nearby village and [&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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357088","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=357088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}