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Assam gas blowout: ONGC hopeful of plugging the leak by FridayONGC, collaborating with CUDD Pressure Control, achieved a significant breakthrough at Well RDS#147A, safely removing the rig substructure ...
Oil India Ltd loses Rs 148 cr revenue due to well closure around Baghjan fire, AssamA massive fire had broken out at the gas well in May-end after gas that had been leaking for two weeks ignited, sending plumes of smoke and...
Baghjan gas well inferno: Blowout preventer placed over the wellThe gas producing well blew out on May 27. It exploded into a massive inferno on June 9. Oil stated that total number of families surveyed ...
- 2 officials of Oil India Ltd suspended in connection with Assam gas well blowout
Two staffers of the Oil India Ltd (OIL) have been suspended for alleged negligence of duty in the gas well blowout at Baghjan in Assam's Ti...
ONGC tech director gets CVC clean chitThe oil ministry had suspended Shashi Shanker, director (technology & field services), at state-run ONGC, following allegations of irregula...
At least 12 people injured in ONGC's gas well fire in SuratAt least eight persons were injured today when an ONGC's gas well near Surat in Gujarat caught fire during a repair operation.
Oil ministry suspends ONGC technical director Shashi ShankarShanker “committed gross misconduct while dealing with a tender for procurement of 21 blowout preventers,” a government release said.
ONGC’s director Shashi Shankar suspended as government probes his role in tender irregularitiesA blowout preventer is a large and technically equipped valve or a mechanical device that that forms a seal in the space between the pipe a...
- BP failed to learn from past 'near misses': panel
BP's failure to learn from past "near misses" and its "insufficient consideration of risk" were major factors in the oil well blowout.
- BP's lack of discipline tied to oil spill: Report
Oil giant BP's 'insufficient consideration of risk' and 'lack of operating discipline' contributed to the biggest oil spill in US history.
- Oil industry has yet to adopt lessons of BP spill
Oil industry and government officials could get caught flat-footed again by another deep-water blowout in the coming months.
- US sets new offshore drilling rules
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called the new regulations ``a big step forward'' and said they moved the administration closer to...
- BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued on Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it mis...
- Key evidence in US oil probe raised from the depths
Workers have retrieved the failed blowout preventer from BP's Macondo oil well, giving US investigators a key piece of evidence
- BP well kill delayed until second week of September
BP aims to permanently seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well in the second week of September, US official said, as pressure concerns fu...
BP rig worker saw leak on safety equipment: ReportA man said he saw a leak on safety equipment weeks before the blast that led to the worst oil spill in US history.
- Chevron has the means to prevent an oil blowout
US energy giant Chevron has in place policies and procedures that might have avoided the blowout that caused a massive oil spill in the US ...