Guwahati, 1 July 2025: While congratulating the crisis management team belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) along with three foreign well-control experts for the successful capping of crude oil well 147A under Rudrasagar oilfield on 27 June, All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) urged the state-sponsored Maharatna company to announce adequate compensation to the affected villagers, who had to abandon their home places for two weeks because of the high pressure gas blowout. The forum of graduate engineers based in northeast India raised a pertinent question, how many days the largest Indian crude oil and natural gas company need to declare its compensatory package to over 330 Asomiya families, who used to live surrounding the concerned well and needed to be evacuated for avoiding any adversity.

ONGC’s New Delhi-based corporate communications had earlier admitted that ‘during service operations on 12 June, a blowout occurred at Well RDS#147A, and gas gushed out’. After 16 days of relentless initiative, the team of experts successfully capped the well effectively bringing an end to the gas discharge. ‘This marks the successful culmination of the capping operation, a testament to ONGC’s engineering excellence, meticulous planning, and strong collaboration with global and local partners’, added the ONGC statement claiming that the capping operation was ‘executed with utmost safety, without a single injury, fatality, or incident of fire’. ONGC claimed to maintain full transparency throughout the operation, issuing daily press releases over the fortnight to keep all stakeholders informed and co