OIL suspends operations at Khagorigan fields
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27/10/1999
Oil India Ltd (OIL) has suspended operations in its Khagorigan Oil fields in Assam following an agitation by the local villagers against alleged pollutin caused in the river Brahmaputra.Oil was expected to extract crude oil from the field from August 15, but the operations had to be suspended after the villagers launched an agitation demanding cleaning of the river, company officials said.