{"id":20033936,"date":"2020-06-09T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=33936"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:54:49","slug":"gas-well-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/gas-well-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown-out gas well in Assam bursts into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gas well in Baghjan, eastern Assam, that had blown out on May 27 burst into flames in the afternoon of June 9. Eyewitnesses <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/427317026\">reported a big blast<\/a> followed by flames.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Baghjan \u2013 close to the famous Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland \u2013 had been evacuated to a nearby school building after the initial blowout. \u201cWe fear our houses are on fire,\u201d one resident said after the blast. Many of them came out of their shelter to stare at the blaze in the distance. Others who had been to the village on some chore or the other ran for their lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video of villagers fleeing from the burning oil well\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/427316692?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Operated by Oil India Limited (OIL), the rig \u201cDGR \u2013 Location 5\u201d had originally blown out with a blast as well. Since then, oil vapour and gas have been escaping into the air at high pressure, despite the attempts of experts from OIL and the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) to cap the well. They had been joined by experts from Singapore on June 8, just a day before the second blast and the fire.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_33939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33939\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33939\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dead-fish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"739\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pollution is already killing fish in the area [image by: Chandrani Sinha]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The oil vapour and gas had already affected the health of residents. Oil has been settling down on trees, farmlands and wetlands, turning everything barren and killing animals even before the second blast and the fire took place.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_33940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33940\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33940\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/103491769_3139816246083832_975412455462391556_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dead squirrel by the side of the road [image by: Chandrani Sinha]<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>See earlier report<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2020\/05\/30\/oil-well-blows-out-in-assam\/\">Gas well blows out in Assam<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_33941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33941\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33941\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Polluted-waters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"645\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The damage in the critical biodiversity spot is obvious on the water and land [image by: Chandrani Sinha]<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>Videos by Chandrani Sinha, a freelance journalist based in Assam, her twitter handle is <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@chandranisinha1<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: An earlier version of this article said an oil well had exploded instead of a gas well. This was corrected on July 2. The Third Pole regrets the error<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Residents, evacuated earlier, now fear their homes may be ablaze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20000369,"featured_media":20038148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[760],"tags":[511,573,20000341,610],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000111],"class_list":["post-20033936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pollution","tag-biodiversity","tag-oil-spill","tag-water-pollution","tag-wildlife","country-india"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blown-out gas well in Assam bursts into flames | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents near the blown out gas well in 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