Energy major Oil India Limited (OIL) announced on Sunday that the blowout in Baghjan gas well in Assam has been successfully killed after months of struggle. The natural gas liquids company said in a statement that the fire has been completely doused and the well has been killed with brime solution.<\/p>\n
The fire had continued unabated for weeks in the gas well situated in eastern Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district before it was tamed by the company with the help of foreign experts. OIL tweeted that the situation is under control, adding that currently there is no pressure in well and the same will be observed for the next 24 hours. The company further stated that operation to abandon the well is in progress.\u2019<\/p>\n
Dr P Chandrasekaran, Director (Exploration & Development ), PK Goswami, Director(Operations) and Shri D K Das, Resident Chief Executive, visited the Baghjan well site and had a detailed discussion with the experts from Alert & OIL team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Energy major Oil India Limited (OIL) announced on Sunday that the blowout in Baghjan gas well in Assam has been successfully killed after months of struggle. The natural gas liquids company said in a statement that the fire has been completely doused and the well has been killed with brime solution. The fire had continued unabated for weeks in the gas well situated in eastern Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district before it was tamed by the company with the help of foreign experts. OIL tweeted that the situation is under control, adding that currently there is no pressure in well and the […]<\/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-384221","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\/384221","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=384221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}