According to latest reports, three experts who suffered burns have been discharged after the treatment. It is expected that operations to douse the fire from the oil well will resume at Baghjan tomorrow.
Baghjan explosion: Injured foreign experts discharged, operations to douse well fire to continue
Baghjan explosion
18:54 July 22
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The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020
15:14 July 22
Baghjan explosion: Injured foreign experts discharged, operations to douse well fire to continue
Explosion at Baghjan gas well site in Assam, 3 foreign experts injured
Guwahati: An explosion has occurred near well number five of the Oil India site in Baghjan, Assam. According to reports, three foreign experts working at the site are injured.
The incident reportedly occurred when operations to douse the fire at Baghjan oil field was going on. The injured have been rushed to nearby medical facilities.
The injured have been identified as Anthony Steven Reynolds, Doug Dallas, Craig Neil Duncan. They are from M/s Alert Disaster Control company.
Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably since May 27 and it caught fire on June 9, killing two firefighters of the OIL at the site.
The blow-out left behind mixture of chemical compounds that are toxic for land and vegetation. The catastrophic inferno has been raging since then with foreign experts being called in from Singapore and the US to put out the fire.
Over 9,000 people were initially shifted to 13 relief camps after the well suffered a blowout in May and subsequently caught fire last month.
Read: Baghjan inferno manmade, cement plug meant for 48 hrs removed in just 16 hrs
The gas leak and the consequent inferno that is still blazing in eastern Assam’s number 5 gas well is due to gross human error and could have been totally avoided if standard operating procedures had been followed, a top source familiar with the process of inquiry had told ETV Bharat.
According to the government source, a 100-metre-long tube of special cement was applied at depth 1,000-900 metres to seal the gas leak but that was opened even before the cement had been allowed to properly be set, resulting in the ‘blow out’. ‘Blow out’ is the uncontrolled surge of oil or gas from a well.
Critically, the plan to seal the leak did not include verification of the position and strength of the cement plug.
Read: Two firefighters die, over 1,610 families displaced in gas well blowout blaze in Assam
Baghjan is one of the 23 oil wells set up by OIL to tap the large gas reserves in the Brahmaputra basin and located near the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.
18:54 July 22
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The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020The 3 experts were provided immediate medical attention by doctor at well site & later on they were taken to burn unit section of Astha Nursing Home at Dibrugarh. They hv bn released after dressing of d burn injuries. It is expected dat operations will resume at Baghjan tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/nhrLBcCH18
— Oil India Limited (@OilIndiaLimited) July 22, 2020
According to latest reports, three experts who suffered burns have been discharged after the treatment. It is expected that operations to douse the fire from the oil well will resume at Baghjan tomorrow.
15:14 July 22
Baghjan explosion: Injured foreign experts discharged, operations to douse well fire to continue
Explosion at Baghjan gas well site in Assam, 3 foreign experts injured
Guwahati: An explosion has occurred near well number five of the Oil India site in Baghjan, Assam. According to reports, three foreign experts working at the site are injured.
The incident reportedly occurred when operations to douse the fire at Baghjan oil field was going on. The injured have been rushed to nearby medical facilities.
The injured have been identified as Anthony Steven Reynolds, Doug Dallas, Craig Neil Duncan. They are from M/s Alert Disaster Control company.
Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably since May 27 and it caught fire on June 9, killing two firefighters of the OIL at the site.
The blow-out left behind mixture of chemical compounds that are toxic for land and vegetation. The catastrophic inferno has been raging since then with foreign experts being called in from Singapore and the US to put out the fire.
Over 9,000 people were initially shifted to 13 relief camps after the well suffered a blowout in May and subsequently caught fire last month.
Read: Baghjan inferno manmade, cement plug meant for 48 hrs removed in just 16 hrs
The gas leak and the consequent inferno that is still blazing in eastern Assam’s number 5 gas well is due to gross human error and could have been totally avoided if standard operating procedures had been followed, a top source familiar with the process of inquiry had told ETV Bharat.
According to the government source, a 100-metre-long tube of special cement was applied at depth 1,000-900 metres to seal the gas leak but that was opened even before the cement had been allowed to properly be set, resulting in the ‘blow out’. ‘Blow out’ is the uncontrolled surge of oil or gas from a well.
Critically, the plan to seal the leak did not include verification of the position and strength of the cement plug.
Read: Two firefighters die, over 1,610 families displaced in gas well blowout blaze in Assam
Baghjan is one of the 23 oil wells set up by OIL to tap the large gas reserves in the Brahmaputra basin and located near the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.
Last Updated : Jul 22, 2020, 7:12 PM IST
