Gaurav Gogoi draws attention of centre for blasts in Baghjan OIL well

Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi recently wrote a letter to Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Steel Dharmendra Pradhan drawing his attention to the frequent blasts and casualties occurring at the Baghjan oil well.

The Minister in his letter mentioned the Arnab Kishore Bordoloi, a young electrical engineer who unfortunately lost his life on the 9th of September at Baghjan.

Gogoi wrote, “On 9th September 2020 we yet again lost a valuable life of a young electrical engineer late Arnab Kishore Bordoloi. This is the third casualty at the site. Due to unfortunate explosion, the deaths and injuries are still occurring frequently, the local authorities along with the foreign experts have failed miserably to tackle the situation resulting in chaos in and around the site among the villagers.”

Gaurav Gogoi further mentioned that the incident is causing massive destruction to livelihoods in the area, apart from causing major ecological damage.

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“Therefore, people of Assam want to know the reason for the explosion and if any new security measures have been put in place to mitigate such incidents in the future post the explosion in Baghjan,” the letter by Gaurav Gogoi read.

An engineer of PSU major Oil India lost his life due to high voltage electric shock on Wednesday, 9th September when he was working at the company’s damaged gas well in Baghjan in Assam’s Tinsukia district, officials said.

The electrical engineer, Arnab Kishore Bordoloi, was working on high voltage cables at the site when the incident happened around 2 pm, they said.

“He was immediately taken to the Assam Medical College and Hospital in Dibrugarh. However, doctors informed us in the evening that he succumbed to the injuries,” an official of the company said.

With this, the total number of persons losing their lives in the worst industrial disaster of Assam has gone up to three.

The well number 5 at Baghjan has been spewing gas uncontrollably since May 27 and it caught fire on June 9, killing two of OIL’s firefighters at the site.

On July 22, three experts from Singaporean firm Alert Disaster Control, which was asked to assist OIL and ONGC experts for putting out the inferno, received burn injuries while they were removing a spool from the wellhead.

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