GUWAHATI: Three foreign hydrocarbon well blowout experts from Singapore-based firm Alert Disaster Control were injured in a blast while trying to cap a gas well of Oil India Limited at Baghjan in Assam’s Tinsukia district, which has been throwing out jets of gas and fire for almost two months now.
The three experts, Anthony Steven Reynolds, Doug Dallas and Craig Neil Duncan are part of the six-member team of experts from the Singaporean firm engaged in efforts to douse the fire at the well.
The three experts, Anthony Steven Reynolds, Doug Dallas and Craig Neil Duncan are part of the six-member team of experts from the Singaporean firm engaged in efforts to douse the fire at the well.
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They have been rushed to hospital in Dibrugarh. The condition of two of the three injured experts is said to be serious, an OIL official said.
This is the second time this well no 5 has exploded. Two fire fighters of OIL, Durlav Gogoi and Tikheswar Gohain had lost their lives after the well exploded on June 9 following a blowout on May 27.
