Assam: The Final Attempt To Completely Extinguish The Baghjan Fires Fails
By Taha Fatima, Friday 21st August.

After Monday’s successful capping operation and two other failed trials to shutdown the damage caused by the gas well No.5 at Baghjan, all arrangements for carrying out a well-killing operation such as connections of kill lines and choke manifold lines were completed on Tuesday, NDTV reported.
 

Oil India limited spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika said, “The process of killing of the well was attempted but there were some challenges and the mission failed. After experts at Duliajan return, we will know the actual reason. The next course of action will also be known later” Hazarika added that the well-killing operation would now be done by spraying chemicals. “These are mostly synthetic chemicals that are used for killing of well.” 
 

Currently, Oil India Limited reached out to experts from Singapore to look into the gas leak blowout.
The blowout has destroyed everything within the radius of one kilometer at the time of the blowout and has continued to cause damage to the biodiversity it is surrounded with destroying local tea gardens and water bodies in Assam, which were a source of income for many residents in Assam. All the families that were affected by blowout had to be moved to relief camps. This has triggered protests by the local homeowners.

The National Green Tribunal had charged Oil India Limited to pay a fine of Rs 25 crore to cover for the damages caused to public health and wildlife due to the explosion.