The state government is now giving the impacted individuals the assistance they need, but ONGC needs to take a more aggressive stance to lessen the situation and bring things back to normal, he continued.
On June 12, a blowout occurred at Well No. RDS 147 of Rig No. SKP 135 of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) Rudrasagar oil field in Barichuk, Bhatiapar.
The state-owned Maharatna corporation was using a private company, SK Petro Services, to operate the well.
Speaking on his Monday night visit to the impacted location, the CM said he had promised the residents that their concerns would be taken seriously.
“I urge you to kindly direct ONGC to reinforce its technical and leadership presence on-site, adopt a more mission-mode approach and step up engagement with the affected communities to restore confidence and bring the situation under control at the earliest,” Sarma told Puri.
On Tuesday, the Assam government said that approximately 350 families impacted by the disaster would receive financial relief of ~25,000 each.
Puri also looked over and received an update on the well control operations being conducted by ONGC, which told him that qualified staff had been brought in from other firm work centers to put out the fire.
Despite constant efforts to prevent it, an uncontrolled gas leak from the well is still occurring, according to an official from the company. .