DULIAJAN / NOIDA / MUMBAI / RAJKOT - In a regulatory filing submitted to the Indian Stock Exchanges, Noida headquartered Oil & Gas arm of Government of India and a public sector undertaking company Oil India Ltd said of fire been contained at the site of Gas Well at Baghjan where blowout at the gas well site followed by huge fire surfaced on June 9, 2020 - claiming two lives of OIL employees and injuring four persons from OIL and ONGC Ltd, the accident has resulted into the loss of 638 metric tons of crude oil and 0.46 Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters per Day (MMSCMD) of natural gas followed by protests and blockade from surrounding areas, tremors were also reported in nearby surrounding village areas, where police force has been deployed to control the situation and process for preparation of capping of wells is in progress as per the guidance of the team of international experts from hydrocarbon sector, camping at the site, of which the reports are being sent to concerned ministry and departments.
In a press-release titled, "Blowout in Gas Well of Oil India Limited at Baghjan, Tinsukia District, Assam", as attached and enclosed with the regulatory filing as submitted by the company to the Indian Bourses, it further highlighted detailed pointers on the site status, fire status in well & vicinity, preparation for capping the well, relief & rehabilitation work. Law & Order situation, impact on production and operations and several other issues.
1. SITE STATUS / FIRE STATUS IN WELL & VICINITY
- The extent of the fire has been contained to the well.
- In order to arrest any untoward incidents of flash fire, Fire Tenders are kept ready at site.
- Presence of gas, noise level, air quality at vicinity of the site is being constantly monitored.
2. PREPARATION OF CAPPING THE WELL
- Detailed draft plan of well control operation drawn up by the team of Experts from M/s Alert, Singapore along with ONGC and OIL team has been submitted to the Ministry.
- The first load of equipment mobilized from ONGC-Sibsagar has reached Duliajan and will be sent to the site after inspection by the Experts. Rest of the vehicles are expected to reach Duliajan today.
- Vehicle carrying equipment from ONGC-Rajamundry crossed Palasa and was approaching Odisha border as per morning report at 07:30 hours.
- As advised by the Hon’ble Minister of Industries & Commerce, Govt. of Assam, Land deal is being finalised by DC, Tinsukia required for debris laydown area, Site Refuge & Control Area and additional water Reservoir.
- OIL’s CMT pump of 2500 gpm capacity loaded in the Oil field truck at Duliajan.
- Testing of pumps, engines and auxiliary equipment & laying of delivery lines required for sourcing of water from Dangori River are in progress.
3. RELIEF AND REHABILATION
- In addition to existing 12 nos of Relief Camps, 2 more Relief Camps have been set up at Guijan and Dhelakhat area.
- All the Relief Camps are being effectively provided with fooding, lodging, lighting, hygiene, toilet, drinking water and medical requirements with the help of District Administration and Local Student’s Organisations/ Associations.
4. LAW AND ORDER / BANDHS / BLOCKADES ETC
- Police forces are deployed at site by the District Administration. No untoward incident of Law & Order has been reported so far at site.
- Production Operations were stopped/disrupted at 66 Oil wells and 13 Gas wells by students’ organisations and local people at Makum, Barekuri, Hapjan, Lankashi, Nagajan, Hebeda and Dhakul area leading to loss of crude oil and gas production.
- Drilling Operations were stopped/disrupted at 4 locations and Workover Operations were stopped/disrupted at 4 locations by students’ organisations and local people at Baghjan, Barekuri, Dhakul, Bozaloni, & Borhapjan area.
- Crude oil Transportation through Bowser operation was carried out with the help of security at several places while some Bowsers are stranded due to blockades by local people.
5. IMPACT ON OIL PRODUCTION
- Loss of 638 MT of Crude Oil Production from 66 nos. of oil wells and 0.46 MMSCMD of Natural Gas from 3 nos. of gas wells were reported on 11-06-2020 due to blockade by local people and students’ organisations (AMSU and ATTSA) at Makum, Barekuri, Hapjan, Lankashi, Nagajan, Hebeda and Dhakul area.
6. ANY OTHER ISSUES
- Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas & Minister of Steel took a VC meeting with OIL officials on 11-06-2020 to review the progress.
- Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam is taking stock of the situation and assured OIL to provide all necessary help and assistance from State Authorities.
- Shri Chandra Mohan Patowary, Transport, Industries and Commerce Minister, Govt of Assam, Shri Rameshwar Teli, Union Minister of State of Food Processing, Shri Terash Gowalla, Local MLA, Shri Bhaskar Pegu, DC, Tinsukia had a detailed discussion at Duliajan with Shri Sushil Chandra Mishra, CMD, OIL, functional directors of OIL and Mr. Michael E. Allcorn, expert from M/s Alert on the present status and action plan for capping the well.
- There were some reports of tremors in nearby villages.
- OIL has contacted North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat to carry out a study to see if there is any induced seismicity due to the blowout.
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