Direct ONGC to step up efforts to control gas leak at Sivasagar oil well, Assam CM urges Centre

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday urged Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri to direct the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation to step up efforts and control the leakage of gas that has continued for the past week.

The gas leakage began after a blowout at an ONGC crude oil well in Sivasasagar district on June 12. A private firm named SK Petro Services was operating the well on behalf of the central public sector undertaking, PTI reported.

About 1,500 persons have been affected by the incident, the news agency quoted an unidentified district official as saying on June 15. Seventy families have been shifted to a relief camp in the nearby Bangaon town.

Sarma, in the letter to Puri on Tuesday, said that more than 330 families had to be evacuated from the nearby area and the state government was providing them with basic relief and safety measures.

Conveyed our concerns regarding the Barichuk Gas Blowout incident to Hon'ble Union Minister Shri @HardeepSPuri ji.

I have requested him to direct @ONGC_ to step up well control efforts in mission mode so that the situation doesn't aggravate further.

The State Govt is providing… pic.twitter.com/3F0xSaL0Kz— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 18, 2025

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