Baghjan
oilfield incident at Assam’s Tinsukia district leads to the changes in
standard operation procedure (SOPs) and rules and regulation for the entire oil
and gas industry. Referring to Baghjan's incident we know it causes a lot of damage and loss of life and the property, also there has been a bad
impact on the nearby areas because of the heat and noise generated from the
blowout well of Baghjan field.
Being aware of the Baghjan oilfield incident the central the government said in the parliament that the SOP of oil and gas industries are being revised for making
improvement in order to prevent such accidents in the future. In a written reply in
the Lok Sabha on September 19,
2020 Minister of Petroleum
and Natural Gas Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan said that in the most incident of
gas leakage in any pipeline the oil and gas wells are closed immediately to
prevent fire and loss of the oil and gas after carrying out leakage rectification job, operations are normalized
and production is restored.
After the incident the minister of petroleum and natural gas
constituted 3 member inquiry committee to inquire into the Baghjan incident, in addition, the ministry
also orders the Directorate General
of Mines and Safety (DGMS) and Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) to
form committee and appoint them for
making new SOPs. The
OISD & DGMS is responsible for audits including External safety audits
& Surprise safety Audits at periodic intervals to cover all the existing
installations; pre-commissioning safety audit of all new facilities being added
to the existing installation & new installation being set up, before
commissioning of the facilities Mr. Pradhan said.
"Also Minister
Pradhan advised the Ministry to visit the Oil & Gas industry,
to audit the safety
measurements in the industry
and report to Ministry as soon
as possible. To bring new reforms into action".
The new
rules and standard operation procedure will definitely help the industry to set
new machinery and to increase safety measurements so any incident and untoward
can be prevented to happen.
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