Efforts are on to control a major gas leakage at an Oil India Ltd (OIL) well in Rajasthan’s Dandewala region, from where highly inflammable gas has been oozing out for the last six days.

Machines and equipment brought from Maharashtra and Gujarat have been deployed by the experts, who have pumped chemicals into the well to plug the leakage, but the flow wasn’t contained yet, an official said here today.

District Collector VM Sharma said the situation was under control and it would take a couple of more days to contain the leakage fully.

There was no population in a radius of 35 km around the spot, he said.

Several experts from Oil India, ONGC, and other companies are present in the area to monitor the situation.

BSF IG BR Meghwal said BSF men have been alerted to the issue.

The highly inflammable gas started leaking from the OIL well located in the Dandewala area of the district near the Indo-Pakistan border more than a week back.

OIL produces about 70 lakh cubic metres of gas each day from its field in Jaisalmer.

The well in question produces 9,000 cubic metres per day of gas.

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