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Tinsukia DC seeks 7 days to resolve Baghjan compensation issue
Published on September 19, 2020 | News Source: Bijay Sankar Bora
Guwahati, September 19: The Tinsukia district administration has sought a week’s time to resolve the issue of compensation to be provided to families affected by the Baghjan blowout and fire.
A meeting between the district administration and the protesting members of the Baghjan Gaon Yuba Milanjyoti Sangha was held in Tinsukia on Saturday, wherein the deputy commissioner sought seven days’ time to sort the issue.
“Subsequently, the blockade was lifted from the road connecting Baghjan with Tinsukia and Doomdooma. However, the blockade on the road to Baghjan EPS (early production system) has not been lifted,” Satyajit Moran, president of the Baghjan Gaon Yuba Milanjyoti Sangha informed.
The Sangha has been staging an indefinite road blockade since Thursday in protest against the delay in payment of compensation to the affected families. Members of the organisation had set up a makeshift camp on the middle of the road connecting Baghjan EPS.
Oil India Limited (OIL) had written a letter on Friday, requesting the protesting members of the Sangha to lift the blockade at Baghjan EPS (early production system) as workers engaged in shifts at the blowout well (Baghjan well number five) were facing immense difficulty, unable to move in and out of the site.
The experts engaged by the OIL recently succeeded in diverting the gas flow to four locations, comprising two flare pits and another two at the Baghjan EPS after a series of failed attempts.
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Heat, noise from Baghjan blowout gas well affects people in vicinity
Published on September 14, 2020|News Source : Bijay Sankar Bora
Guwahati, September 14: The Union government today admitted that there has been considerable impact of heat and noise generated from the blowout well in areas surrounding the site at Baghjan in Tinsukia district of eastern Assam.
Union petroleum minister, Dharmendra Pradhan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on the fire at Baghjan oilfield, stated that “there has been an impact on the nearby areas because of the heat and noise generated from the blowout well of Baghjan field.”
A blowout from gas well number five at Baghjan on May 27 last subsequently caught fire triggering an inferno on June 9, 2020.
The gas flow from the blowout well however has been successfully diverted in the second attempt on Sunday morning to four locations – two flare pits and to two other sites at the Baghjan EPS (early production system).
“Approximately, 3000 affected families have been evacuated to rehabilitation camps set up by the district administration,” Pradhan said.
TERI has been engaged for ambient air quality monitoring and bioremediation while CSIR’s North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST) has been engaged for seismological study and IIT, Guwahati has been engaged for heat impact through thermal imaging.
The Oil India Limited (OIL) has so far lost three employees including two foremen and an engineer.
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“The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has constituted a three-member inquiry committee to inquire into the deaths of OIL staff,” the Union minister stated.
In addition, inquiry committees have also been set up by the directorate general of mines and safety (DGMS), and Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD).
Two officers of OIL directly looking after the operations of the well before blowout have been suspended.
Earlier in July, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had in a study report on the impact of the well blowout at Baghjan oil field on surrounding landscape, said “The predicted noise level from oil explosion point to 12 km ranges from 113 to 70 decibels respectively which will adversely impact mammals, birds and insects, from disorientation to health issues. Animals would be stressed, as they have to communicate at higher decibels,” the preliminary impact study conducted by WII from May 29 to July 7, said.
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