To ensure the safety of the personnel, Jiwa Ram, GGM (drilling), N S Rawat, GGM (Security and vigilance) and S R Trivedi Project manager, Cambay crossed the stretch of water which was about 4 feet deep to reach the rig site. The field parties of ONGC also offered assistance by sending people to the site by boats. At present hectic repair work is on to resume operations at the earliest.

Meanwhile, ONGC, Western Region Football team participated in the 6th B R Ambedkar All-India Football Tournament organised by Hazira Project recently, but lost the semifinals to Salcette Club, Goa.

The ONGC Kabaddi Team from the Regional Sports Council Western Region also participated in the All-India Kabaddi Tournament organised by All-India Kabaddi Federation in Thanjavur recently. The team reached the Quarter Finals by defeating teams including the Tamil Nadu Police, the Eastern Railways and Haryana.

The ONGC Western Region Bridge Team participated in the All-India Raju Memorial Bridge Tournament organised in Dehradun. A K Mishra and D N Sinha bagged the first position in the Master pair event.

And with the beginning of the new academic session, the ONGC officers club has started various extracurricular activities for school children. Located in the Colony premises, the Club provides coaching in Karate, drawing and painting, vocal music, tabla, classical dance and computer operations. A large number of children avail of this professional training with nominal fees. Interestingly, the Karate course draws maximum response from young ardent Bruce Lee fans.

Considering rigs are vital in oil drilling operations of ONGC, K L Sharma, an assistant engineer at ONGC, Western Region, has nurtured an interesting hobby. Inspired by a thermocol sheet model of the rig Sagar Gaurav at Off Shore Project, Bombay, Sharma makes working models of rigs from thermocol as well as from aluminum and mild steel. He makes wooden patterns first before going in for aluminum models. The various indigenous models that he has developed include a Sagar Shakti model and a mobile Desert Rig Model E-076-13 in metal base which can be operated by electricity.