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Fire in Oil India's Oil well in Assam

A major fire broke out in high steam line on Thursday of Oil India Limited (OIL) operational area of Duliajan. However there was no loss of life. Oil official claimed that fire was shortly brought under control. Oil has in last five incurred production loss of 50 percent owing to bandhs and protests by students organization. An OIL spokesperson claimed activity in oil was disrupted following the bandh. "On Thursday there was a fire in the collection station as during last five days monitoring of these sites was severely affected. Oil establishments' requirement continues monitoring."

Oil India's daily output has been reduced by about 50 per cent. The explorer's average crude oil production hovers around 9,000 tonnes, which has dropped to 5,000 tonnes on Wednesday. Similarly, it drills about 7 standard cubic metres of gas every day, which has now dropped about 3.5 standard cubic metres of gas.

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