Assam Gas Well Fire

More than five months after the Baghjan gas well in Assam's Tinsukia district burst into flames after a blowout that killed three people and is believed to have caused great damage to the region's rich ecology, the fire has been finally doused.

The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully "killed" and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout, Oil India said.

Locals in Baghjan in Assam's Tinsukia district today blocked the road leading to the gas well of Oil India Limited which had suffered a blowout on May 27 and subsequently caught fire on June 9.

The Assam government has said two more months are likely to be taken by the experts to douse the fire at Oil India's damaged gas well at Baghjan, where the gas is flowing uncontrollably for the past 99 days.

The final operation of well-killing to douse the fire at the damaged gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) at Baghjan in Assam failed today due to "technical reasons, officials said.

After two failed attempts to shut Oil India's damaged gas well No.5 at Baghjan, the Blow Out Preventive (BOP) valve has been installed, successfully ending the capping operation. The well-killing work - a risky operation that involves placing a column of very dense fluid(s) into a wellbore to prevent the flow of gas - will begin today.

The district administration of Tinsukia in Assam on Sunday denied reports that the blaze in Baghjan gas well has spread to other areas, and said that a fire in a farmland, about two km away from the Oil India Limited's site, was caused by burning of bushes.

About 45 days since a damaged gas well blew out in Assam's Baghjan area, the state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) said it was confident of beginning the "main works" for controlling the fire in the next few days.

All ongoing works to douse a blaze at a damaged gas well in Assam's Baghjan have been suspended with floodwaters inundating the site and submerging the pumps installed to put out the fire, PSU major Oil India Limited (OIL) said on Saturday.

The state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL), which owns and operates gas well no.5 in Baghjan Oilfield that caught fire on June 9 after leaking gas "uncontrollably" since a blowout on May 27, is mulling legal recourse to challenge the "closure notice" by the Pollution Control Board, Assam, or the PCBA.

Oil India Limited on Sunday said most of its wells in Assam's Baghjan, which were shut due to protests by locals over a fire at a gas well after a days-long blowout, have resumed operations following a meeting with a representative body of residents mediated by the Tinsukia district administration.

The Assam Pollution Control Board (PCB)has issued a closure notice to the Oil India Limited to shut down all its wells in Baghjan - the site of the gas well fire accident. The pollution body, which did an initial probe into the environmental hazards of the incident, has said that the company has been operating these oil wells without "proper consen...

General Officer Commanding of 3 Corps Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita along with other senior officers of the Army visited the site of the gas well fire tragedy at Baghjan in Assam on Friday to monitor the progress of the work to cap the well.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal met with senior scientists today to ask for a study of tremors reported from the Baghjan region, where last week a leaking gas well caught fire and killed two people

Assam Chief Minster Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday said the government is taking help of experts from Singapore, Australia, America and Canada to control the fire in a gas well in Tinsukia district.

More than five months after the Baghjan gas well in Assam's Tinsukia district burst into flames after a blowout that killed three people and is believed to have caused great damage to the region's rich ecology, the fire has been finally doused.

The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully "killed" and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout, Oil India said.

Locals in Baghjan in Assam's Tinsukia district today blocked the road leading to the gas well of Oil India Limited which had suffered a blowout on May 27 and subsequently caught fire on June 9.

The Assam government has said two more months are likely to be taken by the experts to douse the fire at Oil India's damaged gas well at Baghjan, where the gas is flowing uncontrollably for the past 99 days.

The final operation of well-killing to douse the fire at the damaged gas well of Oil India Limited (OIL) at Baghjan in Assam failed today due to "technical reasons, officials said.

After two failed attempts to shut Oil India's damaged gas well No.5 at Baghjan, the Blow Out Preventive (BOP) valve has been installed, successfully ending the capping operation. The well-killing work - a risky operation that involves placing a column of very dense fluid(s) into a wellbore to prevent the flow of gas - will begin today.

The district administration of Tinsukia in Assam on Sunday denied reports that the blaze in Baghjan gas well has spread to other areas, and said that a fire in a farmland, about two km away from the Oil India Limited's site, was caused by burning of bushes.

About 45 days since a damaged gas well blew out in Assam's Baghjan area, the state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) said it was confident of beginning the "main works" for controlling the fire in the next few days.

All ongoing works to douse a blaze at a damaged gas well in Assam's Baghjan have been suspended with floodwaters inundating the site and submerging the pumps installed to put out the fire, PSU major Oil India Limited (OIL) said on Saturday.

The state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL), which owns and operates gas well no.5 in Baghjan Oilfield that caught fire on June 9 after leaking gas "uncontrollably" since a blowout on May 27, is mulling legal recourse to challenge the "closure notice" by the Pollution Control Board, Assam, or the PCBA.

Oil India Limited on Sunday said most of its wells in Assam's Baghjan, which were shut due to protests by locals over a fire at a gas well after a days-long blowout, have resumed operations following a meeting with a representative body of residents mediated by the Tinsukia district administration.

The Assam Pollution Control Board (PCB)has issued a closure notice to the Oil India Limited to shut down all its wells in Baghjan - the site of the gas well fire accident. The pollution body, which did an initial probe into the environmental hazards of the incident, has said that the company has been operating these oil wells without "proper consen...

General Officer Commanding of 3 Corps Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita along with other senior officers of the Army visited the site of the gas well fire tragedy at Baghjan in Assam on Friday to monitor the progress of the work to cap the well.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal met with senior scientists today to ask for a study of tremors reported from the Baghjan region, where last week a leaking gas well caught fire and killed two people

Assam Chief Minster Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday said the government is taking help of experts from Singapore, Australia, America and Canada to control the fire in a gas well in Tinsukia district.