Baghjan blowout well sealed fully
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Oil India Limited’s well had been ejecting pure gasoline and condensates uncontrollably
Indian and international consultants on Sunday “killed” a disastrous well of Oil India Limited (OIL) in jap Assam’s Tinsukia district, 173 days after it had a blowout, ejecting pure gasoline and related components uncontrollably from a depth of three.7 km.
The blowout started at Well No 5 in OIL’s Baghjan Oilfield, adjoining the ecologically fragile Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, on May 27. To make issues worse, the well caught fireplace on June 9.
“The well has been killed with brine solution and is under control now. Fire has been doused completely,” an OIL spokesperson stated from the exploration main’s headquarters at Duliajan within the neighbouring Dibrugarh district.
“There is no pressure in the well now and it will be observed for 24 hours to check if there is any amount of gas migration and pressure build-up. Further operation to abandon the well is in progress,” he added.
OIL initiated the method of injecting “kill fluid” or cement-laced chemical mud, the ultimate section of well-snubbing operation, about 11 a.m. to kill the blowout well. The operation was headed by an eight-member international consultants’ staff together with officers of the OIL’s disaster administration staff.
The well was killed 12 days after 60 tonnes of the snubbing unit, flown in from Canada’s Calgary by an Antonov An-24, reached the positioning on November 4.
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