{"id":361411,"date":"2020-07-06T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361411"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:28:17","slug":"days-before-assam-fire-oil-cleared-curbs-to-get-nod-for-project-inside-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/days-before-assam-fire-oil-cleared-curbs-to-get-nod-for-project-inside-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Days before Assam fire, OIL cleared curbs to get nod for project inside national park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYS BEFORE a blowout in its Baghjan oil field bordering the Dibru Saikhowa national park in Assam put \u201call life forms\u201d in the vicinity at risk, Oil India Limited (OIL) obtained environment clearance for exploring and extracting gas from inside the park \u2014 despite restrictions in the mining lease on carrying out surveys inside sanctuaries and national parks. <\/p>\n<p>On May 11, OIL obtained environment clearance from the Centre for drilling seven wells inside Dibru Saikhowa using the sub-surface Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) technology from three existing wells (Baghjan 3, 5 and 11) adjacent to the park. <\/p>\n<p>According to OIL, the technology enables it to drill at a depth of 3,500-4,000 metres without disturbing the forest land surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYS BEFORE a blowout in its Baghjan oil field bordering the Dibru Saikhowa national park in Assam put \u201call life forms\u201d in the vicinity at risk, Oil India Limited (OIL) obtained environment clearance for exploring and extracting gas from inside the park \u2014 despite restrictions in the mining lease on carrying out surveys inside sanctuaries and national parks. On May 11, OIL obtained environment clearance from the Centre for drilling seven wells inside Dibru Saikhowa using the sub-surface Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) technology from three existing wells (Baghjan 3, 5 and 11) adjacent to the park. According to OIL, 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361411","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=361411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}