10 injured as fire breaks out at ONGC Mumbai High platform

MUMBAI: Ten personnel were injured in a fire at the ONGC South Field at Bombay High on Friday evening. The cause was not known at the time of going to press.

A tweet from ONGC late night said, “A fire was reported at 5.45 pm at ONGC’s SHP Platform, Mumbai High Asset. The situation was brought under control and the fire extinguished. Ten personnel sustained minor injuries. All are stable. Ops have been normalised. (sic)”

However, no distress call was activated by ONGC till 10pm and no agencies — Navy or Coast Guard — got the alert. “After learning about it via the tweet, we checked with ONGC and were informed that there was no emergency as the situation has been brought under control,” said a Coast Guard official.

The official said during such emergency distress calls are related to Mumbai’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC). But the centre did not receive any such call from ONGC.