Inferno: a worker walks past the blazing well at OIL's Dikom field

Dikom well fire doused

Firefighters have doused a massive oil well fire that blazed for three weeks at the Dikom oilfield, in India's Assam state.

6 October 2005 8:18 GMT Updated 6 October 2005 8:18 GMT

By Anthea Pitt

OIL's production losses from the incident total 132,000 barrels of crude so far.

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