 "ONGC begins cement plugging gas leak at Bombay High despite bad weather")
Mumbai: The process of “cement plugging” theleak of high pressure inflammable gas began on Sunday, a day afterit was reported at an oil rig of state-owned ONGC at BombayHigh off the Mumbai coast, even as inclement weather washampering the operation.
“Situation is totally under control and the leakage wascontained yesterday itself,” an ONGC spokesperson said, addingthat the crisis management team has started the cementing workto plug the source of leak at the rig “Sagar Uday”.
He also said that there was no threat of water pollution.
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Meanwhile, a defence official said that a ship each fromthe Navy and the Coast Guard were present in the area to
provide any kind of assistance needed.
“The ships are in communication with the personnel(present) on the oil rig,” the official said.
After the leak was reported at the rig, off 100-nauticalmiles yesterday, the ONGC immediately activated safety
procedures by shutting down drilling operations and evacuated42 non-essential staff out of 82 personnel.
ONGC was drilling a side track well from a platform calledNS on the Bombay High North field.
ONGC had last night clarified that there was no loss oflife or property and there was no blowout as such but only
some gas leaked unexpectedly during drilling.
PTI