{"id":368728,"date":"2020-08-20T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368728"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T03:31:14","slug":"oil-suspends-work-for-dousing-baghjan-gas-well-blaze-as-casing-valve-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-suspends-work-for-dousing-baghjan-gas-well-blaze-as-casing-valve-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"OIL suspends work for dousing Baghjan gas well blaze as casing valve cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSU major Oil India Limited (OIL) on Wednesday said that it had to suspend work for putting out the blaze at the damaged Baghjan gas well in Assam after a &#8220;casing valve&#8221; used during the operation ruptured. <\/p>\n<p>The well no. 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably for 85 days since a blowout on May 27 and it caught fire on June 9. <\/p>\n<p>After placing the Blow Out Preventer (BOP), a hard metal cap, at the mouth of the well on August 17, the company was working on to &#8220;kill&#8221; the well by inserting chemical fluids into it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After successful capping, attempt was made to kill the well by injecting killing fluids into the well. However, due to rupture of a casing valve, the killing operation had to be suspended,&#8221; OIL said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSU major Oil India Limited (OIL) on Wednesday said that it had to suspend work for putting out the blaze at the damaged Baghjan gas well in Assam after a &#8220;casing valve&#8221; used during the operation ruptured. The well no. 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably for 85 days since a blowout on May 27 and it caught fire on June 9. After placing the Blow Out Preventer (BOP), a hard metal cap, at the mouth of the well on August 17, the company was working on to &#8220;kill&#8221; the well by inserting chemical fluids [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368728","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=368728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}