{"id":384219,"date":"2020-11-16T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384219"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:23:12","slug":"fire-at-assams-baghjan-gas-well-finally-doused-after-more-than-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fire-at-assams-baghjan-gas-well-finally-doused-after-more-than-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Assam\u2019s Baghjan gas well finally doused after more than five months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the Baghjan natural gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) that had raged from June 9 was finally doused on Sunday after a five-and-half-month effort.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was extinguished by a team of experts from Canada, who had reached the site in Tinsukia district on November 4, using a technique called snubbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe well has been killed with brine solution and is under control now. The fire has been doused completely,\u201d OIL spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no pressure in the well now and the same will be observed for 24 hours to check if there is any amount of gas migration and pressure build up. Further operation to abandon the well is in progress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the Baghjan natural gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) that had raged from June 9 was finally doused on Sunday after a five-and-half-month effort. The fire was extinguished by a team of experts from Canada, who had reached the site in Tinsukia district on November 4, using a technique called snubbing. \u201cThe well has been killed with brine solution and is under control now. The fire has been doused completely,\u201d OIL spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika said in a statement on Sunday. \u201cThere is no pressure in the well now and the same will be observed for 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-384219","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\/384219","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}