{"id":359533,"date":"2020-06-26T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359533"},"modified":"2020-06-26T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:14:10","slug":"assam-heavy-rains-floods-hamper-ops-to-control-gas-blowout-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-heavy-rains-floods-hamper-ops-to-control-gas-blowout-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Heavy rains, floods hamper ops to control gas blowout, fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operations to control the gas blowout and fire at Oil India Ltd (OIL)\u2019s Baghjan 5 well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district have hit a roadblock, with torrential rains leading to floods and the collapse of a bridge near the site of the gas leak. \u201cAfter heavy rainfall since the last 3 days, the area has been badly hit by flood and the site has been inundated with floodwater,\u201d said a release from OIL on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On May 27, the OIL-owned gas well experienced a blowout of natural gas, threatening thousands who lived in the vicinity as well as the rich biodiversity of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and the Maguri-Motapung wetland located close by. On June 9, the well caught fire, leading to the death of two firefighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations to control the gas blowout and fire at Oil India Ltd (OIL)\u2019s Baghjan 5 well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district have hit a roadblock, with torrential rains leading to floods and the collapse of a bridge near the site of the gas leak. \u201cAfter heavy rainfall since the last 3 days, the area has been badly hit by flood and the site has been inundated with floodwater,\u201d said a release from OIL on Thursday. On May 27, the OIL-owned gas well experienced a blowout of natural gas, threatening thousands who lived in the vicinity as well as the rich biodiversity [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359533","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=359533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}