More miseries await for Baghjan residents as OIL fails to control the blaze

TINSUKIA: Baghjan residents face an uncertain future what with the OIL failing to control the blaze at the oil well here. With uncertainty looming large over the dousing of fire at the existing oil well location, the OIL (OIL India Limited) is contemplating to create a relief line which is likely to take another month or more. Till then, the fire will continue to raze the area with more miseries lying ahead for the people of Baghjan and nearby areas.

Meanwhile again on Wednesday, disaster struck thrice in a row at the Baghjan oil field leaving the OIL officials dumbfounded after it failed to cap the blazing BGR-5 even as the BOP (blowout preventer) was successfully installed over oil head on Monday. While killing of well was in progress with pumping in of cement mud through the BOP, a casing valve of the BOP slipped out leading to a blowout and the subsequent fire on Tuesday evening.

According to a source, though OIL had been struggling to rectify defects at the surface, the fault in the BGR-5 lies at the bottom where the gas outflow pressure is more than 4500 psi as OIL is claiming, with the pre-existing leakage which was perhaps not properly sealed at the time of drilling.

The source also wondered as to how an oil well of 10 years old could exert flow pressure as high as 4500 psi unless being changed to new location.

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