GUWAHATI: A day after successful operation to cap the head of the Baghjan gas producing well of Oil India Limited, teams engaged in the killing process, which is basically an operation to pump chemically-produced mud with high pressure into the well, failed to conclude the task.
An official statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, informed that all arrangements for carrying out well killing operations like connections of kill lines and choke manifold lines were completed before the process began.
An OIL spokesperson informed the media later that the killing process was attempted on Tuesday but failed. “The next course of action will be decided by the experts and made known later,” he said.
According to reports, the killing operation failed because of the “blowout of the valve on the 13.3/8 casing.”
The teams engaged in the operations had successfully installed the blowout preventer on the well head on Monday after two failed attempts earlier.
It may be recalled that Baghjan gas well number five in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam had caught fire on June 9 last after a blowout (uncontrolled escape of natural gas) from the well on May 27.
On the other hand, 2756 families in Doomdooma and Tinsukia circles have so far been surveyed for assessment of damage for compensation till Monday.