16 more bodies found, search operations suspended for Barge P-305The bodies were recovered along the Maharashtra coast by teams of Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard, and their identification was unde...
ONGC reaches out to families of sunk bargeWhile Indian Navy, Coast Guard, ONGC teams and private contractor Afcons are putting in all efforts to locate the missing personnel through...
ONGC, Afcons Infra announce separate cyclone Tauktae compensation plansONGC and its service provider Afcons Infrastructure Ltd have announced separate compensation plans for the families of the deceased and the...
Barge tragedy: FIR against its captain, othersThe case was registered under section 304 (2) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 338 (causing grievous hurt to any person through...
168 deaths; 98 Tauktae hit hospitals resume workTauktae was responsible for at least 168 deaths. Of these, 70 were in Gujarat and 49 workers who were in ONGC’s barge P305. The Navy rescue...
ONGC barge tragedy: Safety of P305 laid with Durmast, says AfconsBy Thursday afternoon, 49 of the total 261 crew members of the ill-fated barge P305 were still missing while 26 were confirmed dead. The go...
Little time, miscalculations may have ended ONGC vessels in cyclone whirlwind, say sourcesA drillship of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and three barges of private contractor Afcons working on the state-owned firm's oilfi...
Police to probe why barge P-305 didn't move away despite cyclone warningThe barge 'Papaa-305' or P-305 had 261 persons on board. Of these, 186 persons were rescued while 53 are still missing. Twenty-two were con...
PM takes stock of rescue operations for ONGC barge personnelAt least 22 personnel on board the accommodation barge P305 that went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabia Sea off M...
89 from P305 missing; all others from 2 barges, rig safe: Navy"As of Wednesday morning, 184 personnel of barge P305 have been rescued and INS Kochi and INS Kolkata are returning to Mumbai harbour with ...
Did judgment error cause barge mess or was it cyclone’s path?Former ONGC director Ved Prakash Mahawar said: “Suppose a well is being drilled at 4,000-feet depth. You can’t just stop and move. The well...
Barge was out of control for three days before cyclone struck: CrewThe ill-fated barge 'P-305' deployed near the Bombay High was "out of control" for three days before cyclone Tauktae caused it to sink in t...
Cyclone Tauktae: Navy, Coast Guard rescue 314 people from two bargesThree barges and an oil rig with 611 personnel on board had gone adrift on Monday. These included accommodation barge P305 with 273 persons...
Massive rescue operations underway after cyclone sinks barge, leaves oil rig adriftNavy vessels, tug boats and rescue ships were pressed into service on Tuesday to evacuate over 500 people stuck on an oil rig and barges in...
Cyclone Tauktae: Navy rescues 177 from barge; rescuees land in MumbaiSixty persons on board the barge were rescued till 11 pm and the remaining overnight, the official said, adding a Navy helicopter brought t...
Bombay High barge de-anchors, but all 261 onboard safe: ONGCAn ONGC spokesperson also said that the Navy has pressed the warship INS Kochi and other assets into service to meet any eventuality. As th...
Government gears up to start LNG barges on Ganga by 2018-endPetronet LNG Limited will design, construct and operate LNG unloading, storage, bunkering and reloading facilities on the National Waterway...