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The blowout astatine the earthy state well owned by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC-Rajahmundry Asset) connected the outskirts of Irusumanda colony successful Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema territory of Andhra Pradesh has been contained by astir 90%, officials said connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) evening.
A monolithic fire, with flames leaping up to a tallness of 25 metres, broke retired connected Monday pursuing a state leak astatine the Mori-5 well. The incidental occurred during workover enactment intended to heighten the travel of earthy gas.
“The flames person been partially doused and experts are engaged successful capping the well. We person alerted U.S.-based experts from the Wild Well radical for their deployment to headdress the well. We volition instrumentality a determination whether to deploy Wild Well experts oregon not connected Wednesday based connected the information of the well. However, the Wild Well experts are acceptable for their arrival,” Vikram Saxena, Director (Technology & Field Services), ONGC, New Delhi, said.
Mr. Saxena is monitoring the concern connected the ground. The ONGC is successful a pact with Wild Well, a U.S.-based agency, for good power operations.
“We are expecting to implicit capping the good wrong a week. We ne'er cognize astir the reservoir condition, arsenic sometimes the travel whitethorn escalate. However, we necessitate a week to headdress the good based connected our tract experiences,” Mr. Saxena said.
“By Wednesday, the radical who person been evacuated from the Mori-5 good surroundings tin travel backmost to their habitations, fixed the prevailing information astatine the well. The flames are completely nether control,” helium said.
Mr. Saxena stated that the information absorption unit would instantly incorporate the earthy state travel and deploy instrumentality into the good earlier sidesplitting it for further appraisal of its condition. ONGC Rajahmundry Asset Executive Director Santanu Das has said that the nonaccomplishment of earthy state is yet to beryllium assessed.
In a associated property league attended by Mr. Saxena, District Collector R. Mahesh Kumar said that ONGC experts person recommended containing the state leak and preventing the flames successful a phased mode wrong the adjacent 4 days to debar biology interaction connected the surroundings of the well. As galore arsenic 75 coconut trees and cultivation crops implicit 3 acres person been damaged owed to the blowout. The evacuees person been advised to instrumentality to their village.
