A gas leak in an ONGC well in Assam’s Shivasagar district, which has displaced more than 1,000 people, continued on Wednesday for the seventh day, the authorities struggled to plug it and stop it from catching fire.
The shock was on 12 June, in which ONGC reporting gas reporting was well seen during servicing operations. RDS-147, North East in its oldest region in Rudrasagar region in Shivasagar.
While no fire or injury has been caused to the personnel so far, the Shivasagar district administration has vacated about 1,500 people from the area around the well in Bhatiapar and 70 families have been kept in a relief camp in a nearby Bangon. On Tuesday evening, the effects of flying increased after being taken to Jorhat Medical College and Hospital in an unconscious state for treatment.
Superintendent of the institute, Dr. Manab Jyoti Gohain said, “A patient was brought from Bhatiapar on Tuesday evening and was admitted to the ICU. He is now improving, we are investigating his situation and his reason.”
However, in a statement released on Wednesday, the company said that an analysis of the gas issued has been done through sample collection, showing that the gas is non -toxic in nature.
The statement said, “Being lighter than air, the gas is spreading upwards in high height, reduces the risk for nearby livelihood. 97% of methane gas, climbing high altitude due to its lightness and settling due to weight.”
With a week -long situation, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote to the Union Minister for Central Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday, requested to direct ONGC to “adopt a more mission mode approach”.
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“More than 330 families have to be vacated and are being supported by the state government with basic relief and safety measures. While the district administration and state agencies are completely on the ground, I am forced to tell that the local perception is one of the insufficient urgency and seriousness in ONGC’s response,” he wrote. The state government also received Rs. 25,000 per affected family as “immediate relief”, which Sarma said will be taken from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
ONGC officials have said that the company was “a huge surprise” since the 1960s. On Tuesday evening, Bhaskar Chaudhary, Executive Director of Assam Asset of ONGC, said that in the last week the primary effort has been in the form of water or “water blanket”.
He said, “The temperature has come down due to this. Our experts have also advised us to continue the water. Several pumps have been arranged to keep it and temporary water lines are being placed so that the supply is not disrupted,” he asked reporters.
An ONGC official said that its primary purpose is to stop it from catching fire. In 2020, an oil area at the garden Oilfield of Oil India Limited had a shock in an well, resulting in a fire which lasted from May to September that year for five months.
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The official said, “When that amount of gas is being released, the smallest amount of ignition may be a fire. The primary purpose is to prevent fire so that there is no fire incident,” the official said.
The official also said that the gas in the well was leaking under the pressure of about 2,500 PSI which was reduced on Wednesday.
“ONGC successfully added the well to a nearby production facility, replacing a part of the gas in a controlled manner,” read in a statement issued by the company on Wednesday.
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