Fire continues to rage in India
State-run Oil India Limited today protectively shut down 30 oil wells in India’s remote north-east as a fire continued to rage in a nearby oil well for the sixth day.
A team from US-based Boots & Coots International Well Control, which specialises in dealing with oil well fires, was at the site waiting for heavy pressure pumps and a special kind of sand to arrive from a western Indian state to put out the devastating fire.
The equipment was likely to arrive later this week at the Dekom oil field, where nearly 300 fire fighters and oil workers were battling to extinguish the fire.
