The final well-killing operation to douse the fire at Oil India Limited’s gas well in Assam’s Tinsukia town failed on Tuesday due to techn...
The final well-killing operation to douse the fire at Oil India Limited’s gas well in Assam’s Tinsukia town failed on Tuesday due to technical problems, The Shillong Times reported. The operation involved pumping mud into the well under high pressure.
On Monday, Oil India had managed to cap the Baghjan gas well in Tinsukia, over 80 days after the well had a major blowout on May 27. It was capped by placing a Blowout Preventer stack on the wellhead, the company said.
In a press release on Tuesday, the company said that it had made all arrangements for carrying out the well-killing operation, like connecting kill lines and choke manifold lines. The company later said that the well-killing operation had failed.
“The process of killing of well was attempted but there were some challenges and the mission failed,” Oil India Limited Spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika told NDTV. “After experts at Duliajan return, we will know the actual reason. The next course of action will also be known later.”
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Hazarika added that the well-killing operation would now be done by spraying chemicals. “These...
