Pasarlapudi blowout

Pasarlapudi blowout
Location Pasarlapudi, Andhra Pradesh, India
Date January 8, 1995
Cause
Cause Wellhead blowout
Casualties Nil
Operator Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Spill characteristics
Volume 200 meter column of fire
Area onshore

The Pasarlapudi blowout was an oil rig blowout that took place on 6.50 pm, 8 January 1995 in Pasarlapudi, near Kakinada in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It was the largest blowout ever recorded in the history of the India's oil and natural gas exploration with a fire that engulfed drilling site number 19, rig number E 1400-18GF. The fire continued for 65 days, and was bought under control on 15 March 1995 by Neil Adams Firefighters, Houston. The blowout did not cause any casualties, but the drilling rig was destroyed. Damages to the drilling rig were estimated at Rs 9.2 crore crore as well as about Rs 7 crore of damage to equipment at the well site area. [1][2]

Evacuation

7 villages within the 2 kilometers radius of the rig, approximately 1,500 people were evacuated immediately by APSRTC buses. More people fled in panic from the nearby villages.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Friday’s blowout not an isolated case". The Hindu. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
  2. ↑ "A blast off the top". Down to Earth. Retrieved 1995-02-15. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. ↑ "Raging rig". Indian Environmental Portal. Retrieved 1995-01-30. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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