Assam: One Engineer Dead in Massive Fire at ONGC Gas Gathering Station in Jorhat
The group gathering station is a facility used to collect and process crude oil and natural gas from multiple wells
JORHAT- An engineer working with ONGC in Titabor, died after suffering 80 per cent burns when a major fire broke out at the ONGC Group Gathering Station of GGS. The deceased has been identified as Rahul Dutta.
He was rushed to the Jorhat Medical College & Hospital but he died on the way to the hospital. As per sources, the heater at the gas gathering station caught fire resulting in the casualty.
A fire that broke out at an installation of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) claimed the life of an engineer in Assam’s Jorhat district on Tuesday, police said. The Police have ordered an inquiry into the fire incident.
“We got reports of the incident around noon and a police team was sent to the spot. One person working as an engineer with ONGC sustained severe burn injuries and died in the incident,” Jorhat superintendent of police Shwetank Mishra said.
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Officials said that the fire was brought under control soon and there are no reports of any other injury or casualty. Police have ordered an inquiry into the incident.
The company has not issued any statement about the incident till 8 pm on Tuesday. Their officials could not be reached.
This is not the first time a fire incident has been reported from the GSS at the Titabor plant. Two years back another fire incident had taken place and then too an engineer died.
