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ONGC Oil Well Fire Rages For 2nd Day In Andhra, People Shifted To Camps
For the second consecutive day, a massive gas blowout at ONGCs Mori-5 well in Andhra Pradeshs Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district continued to rage and international experts are being consulted to rein in the fire.
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Assam Gas Well "Killed", Fire Doused Completely After Over 5 Months: Official
The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully "killed" and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout, Oil India said.
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Fire At Assam's Baghjan Gas Well May Continue For 2 More Months: Minister
The Assam government has said two more months are likely to be taken by the experts to douse the fire at Oil India's damaged gas well at Baghjan, where the gas is flowing uncontrollably for the past 99 days.
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Fire At Assam Oil Well Not Spreading, Says District Administration
The district administration of Tinsukia in Assam on Sunday denied reports that the blaze in Baghjan gas well has spread to other areas, and said that a fire in a farmland, about two km away from the Oil India Limited's site, was caused by burning of bushes.
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New Blaze At Assam Oil Well On Fire For A Month, 3 Foreign Experts Hurt
A new fire broke out on Wednesday at Assam's Oil India Limited well, which has been on fire for over a month, injuring three foreign experts working at the site to put off the blaze. The entire area has been cordoned off.
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Compensation For Officials Who Died In Assam Fire, 12 Relief Camps Set Up
The families of the two Oil India Limited officials who died tackling the deadly fire in an oil well in Assam's Tinsukia district will get immediate compensation, the company said in a statement amid joint efforts to control the huge blaze that can be seen from a distance of 10 kilometres.
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Fire in oil well in Assam, no casualties
A fire broke out in an oil well of Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district early this morning. No injury or casualty has been reported so far.
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Navi Mumbai: IOC fire contained after 8 hours
A massive fire that engulfed an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot in Navi Mumbai on Monday night was doused after eight hours. No casualties were, however, reported. (See Pics)The fire broke out shortly after midnight. Twenty fire engines were rushed to the spot to prevent the fire from spreading. "The fire started at around midnight. We decide...
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Oil fire may have caused A380 problem
Europe's air safety regulator said on Thursday an oil fire may have caused an engine turbine failure on a Qantas superjumbo, and issued an emergency order requiring airlines to re-examine that type of Rolls-Royce engine and ground any planes with suspicious leaks.The order by the European Aviation Safety Authority backed earlier indications from in...
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Fire breaks out in oil storage tanker in Chennai
Thick plumes of smoke engulfed the Royapuram area in north Chennai on Monday when a fire broke out from one of the oil storage tankers located amid residential colonies prompting authorities to evacuate several residents.There were no casualties, Fire and Chennai Port officials said.Fire and Port officials are battling hard to douse the fire and va...
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Nine IOC officials arrested for Jaipur depot fire
For days, India watched in horror as the flames leapt higher and wider into the air. At least ten people were killed, and more than a hundred injured in October last year, in a fire at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot on the outskirts of Jaipur.
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ONGC Oil Well Fire Rages For 2nd Day In Andhra, People Shifted To Camps
For the second consecutive day, a massive gas blowout at ONGCs Mori-5 well in Andhra Pradeshs Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district continued to rage and international experts are being consulted to rein in the fire.
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Assam Gas Well "Killed", Fire Doused Completely After Over 5 Months: Official
The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully "killed" and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout, Oil India said.
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Fire At Assam's Baghjan Gas Well May Continue For 2 More Months: Minister
The Assam government has said two more months are likely to be taken by the experts to douse the fire at Oil India's damaged gas well at Baghjan, where the gas is flowing uncontrollably for the past 99 days.
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Fire At Assam Oil Well Not Spreading, Says District Administration
The district administration of Tinsukia in Assam on Sunday denied reports that the blaze in Baghjan gas well has spread to other areas, and said that a fire in a farmland, about two km away from the Oil India Limited's site, was caused by burning of bushes.
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New Blaze At Assam Oil Well On Fire For A Month, 3 Foreign Experts Hurt
A new fire broke out on Wednesday at Assam's Oil India Limited well, which has been on fire for over a month, injuring three foreign experts working at the site to put off the blaze. The entire area has been cordoned off.
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Compensation For Officials Who Died In Assam Fire, 12 Relief Camps Set Up
The families of the two Oil India Limited officials who died tackling the deadly fire in an oil well in Assam's Tinsukia district will get immediate compensation, the company said in a statement amid joint efforts to control the huge blaze that can be seen from a distance of 10 kilometres.
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Fire in oil well in Assam, no casualties
A fire broke out in an oil well of Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district early this morning. No injury or casualty has been reported so far.
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Navi Mumbai: IOC fire contained after 8 hours
A massive fire that engulfed an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot in Navi Mumbai on Monday night was doused after eight hours. No casualties were, however, reported. (See Pics)The fire broke out shortly after midnight. Twenty fire engines were rushed to the spot to prevent the fire from spreading. "The fire started at around midnight. We decide...
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Oil fire may have caused A380 problem
Europe's air safety regulator said on Thursday an oil fire may have caused an engine turbine failure on a Qantas superjumbo, and issued an emergency order requiring airlines to re-examine that type of Rolls-Royce engine and ground any planes with suspicious leaks.The order by the European Aviation Safety Authority backed earlier indications from in...
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Fire breaks out in oil storage tanker in Chennai
Thick plumes of smoke engulfed the Royapuram area in north Chennai on Monday when a fire broke out from one of the oil storage tankers located amid residential colonies prompting authorities to evacuate several residents.There were no casualties, Fire and Chennai Port officials said.Fire and Port officials are battling hard to douse the fire and va...
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Nine IOC officials arrested for Jaipur depot fire
For days, India watched in horror as the flames leapt higher and wider into the air. At least ten people were killed, and more than a hundred injured in October last year, in a fire at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot on the outskirts of Jaipur.
