{"id":367353,"date":"2020-08-11T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367353"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:03:15","slug":"assam-final-capping-ops-to-control-baghjan-blowout-fail-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-final-capping-ops-to-control-baghjan-blowout-fail-for-the-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Final capping ops to control Baghjan blowout fail for the second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in ten days, the final operations to cap well number 5 at Oil India Limited (OIL)\u2019s Baghjan oilfield in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district failed on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The operations at the well, which has been the site of a blowout and a fire for more than two months now, suffered a setback on July 31 when the Athey wagon toppled while placing the Blowout Preventer (BOP) \u2014 the device essential to plug the leak \u2014 on the well head. <\/p>\n<p>This time, however, the PSU made progress and was able to place the BOP on the well head on Monday morning, before the experts decided to remove it because one of the cables of the Athey wagon, a 90-foot-long vehicle used to lift the BOP, snapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in ten days, the final operations to cap well number 5 at Oil India Limited (OIL)\u2019s Baghjan oilfield in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district failed on Monday morning. The operations at the well, which has been the site of a blowout and a fire for more than two months now, suffered a setback on July 31 when the Athey wagon toppled while placing the Blowout Preventer (BOP) \u2014 the device essential to plug the leak \u2014 on the well head. This time, however, the PSU made progress and was able to place the BOP on the well head [&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-367353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367353","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=367353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}