(ET)
Dousing the raging oil well fire in Assam, which continues for around three months causing irreversible damage to a national park and the nearby ecology, would take two more months, an Assam minister told the state Assembly on Wednesday.
Natural gas and oil condensate started leaking from an oil well of the state-owned Oil India (OIL) field at Baghjan in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district around 100 days back. The leakage caught fire around three months ago on June 9. Responding to a query by Congress MLA Durga Bhumij, the state’s Commerce and Industry Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the house that a team of experts from Canada with all modern equipment is on the way to Baghjan to “kill” the well through “snubbing technology”.
