ONGC has succeeded in controlling the uneven flow of gas from its well located in Tadikona of Allavaram mandal in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh today.
"The ONGC well named SRAC has been comprehensively controlled and capped at 4 PM today. ONGC's crisis management team was pressed into service as soon as the well encountered more pressure than the expected levels, while milling by HH-100 T Rig, yesterday at 4 PM," a company release stated.
The flow of gas from the well has been "uneven" since 4 PM yesterday.
"The ONGC team mapped the physical behaviour of the well minute-by-minute and charted a plan to comprehensively control the well. Accordingly, the company mobilised its highly-sophisticated well controlling equipment available in Narasapur within four hours of the incident and stationed...," it stated.
Executive Director, Asset Manager, Debasis Sanyal, Rajahmundry, has marshalled different teams associated with the well control and executed the well control strategy as per the crisis management guidelines.
The primary objective of the project would be to serve
the people of North East and provide quality medical care.
There would be no profit motive and any revenue generated from the hospital would be invested back in the hospital for further improvement and the implementing agency would recruit local people, Shankar said.
BAVP chairman Anil Bhalerao thanked ONGC for having faith in them and signing the MoA for the setting up of the hospital.
"We are committed to provide quality medical care at a very low cost and if surplus revenue is generated, we will plough it back in the hospital. We will take only the goodwill of the people with us," he said.
The rates would be as low as 70 per cent of the market rate and 33 per cent of the hospital facilities would be exclusively for the economically weaker sections, he said.
Among others who spoke on the occasion were ONGC's Director (Onshore) V P Mahawar and Director (HR) D D Mishra.
Later on ONGC authorities handed over a cheque of Rs 14.79 crore to BAVP as the first instalment of the project.
The first phase of the hospital would be set up by July 2019 at an estimated cost of Rs 99.07 crore to create hundred beds and provide internal medicine, paediatrics, general surgery, ENT, orthopaedic, gynaecology and obstetrics, pulmonary medicine and opthalmology facilities, ONGC officials said.
The second phase would cost Rs 96.05 crore to create 120 beds with cardiology, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, nephrology, urology, neurology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, surgical gastroenterology, plastic and cosmetic surgery and was expected to be completed by July 2021.
The final phase was estimated to cost Rs 117.22 crore for creation of 142 beds with renal transplant, IVF, endocrinology, surgical oncology, medical oncology and radiation facilities and would be completed by July 2023.
The 50 acre land for the project was acquired in July 2013 at a cost of Rs 3.75 crore, the officials said.
