The Khagorijan oil field of Oil India Limited resumed production after nearly 15 years.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, was present at the ceremony marking the restart of Oil India Limited‘s Khagorijan oil field, whose activities had been halted since November 2007 because of logistical and environmental concerns.
The exploratory well KGJ-1 was drilled in November 1998 in order to find the oil field. In the region, four wells were sunk, and production there began in December 2004. The Khagorijan installation, which was hired to dig the wells, lies just 1.8 kilometres from the Brahmaputra River. Numerous local organisations in the Khagorijan region impeded OIL’s operations in that region because of the significant river erosion on the banks of the river Brahmaputra.
