Indonesian engineers have started inserting 2,000 chained-together concrete balls into a mud volcano in East Java that has discharged hot, toxic sludge almost without letup since May in hopes of ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 19-- Santos Ltd. reported that Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc. has started drilling a relief well near the Banja-Panji-1 gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java. Mud began flowing ...

Chains of large concrete balls are now being dropped into one of the fissures from where mud has been spewing since 29 May around EMP subsidiary Lapindo Brantas' Banjar Panji-1 well site on the ...

Santos has rejected speculation suggested by a Sept. 15 report in the AFR that said: "Santos is facing a blowout in the clean-up bill from the world's largest mud volcano in East Java" because the ...

2006-10-26 04:00:00 PDT East Java, Indonesia-- Not long ago Khaarul bin Arafin was a taxi driver, but he lost his car, his house and nearly everything he owned to a vast expanse of mud. So instead of ...

For four months, toxic mud from deep underground has spewed to the surface due to negligent drilling at a gas exploration site in the Porung sub-district of Sidoarjo, a regency in the east part of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nine years ago, a rice paddy in eastern Java suddenly cleaved open and began spewing steaming mud. Before long, it covered an area twice ...

It was midnight when the earth exploded in Sidoardjo in East Java, Indonesia, sending a torrent of burning hot mud pouring from the earth's inner depths. Fadjariawan and Ibu Aisyah Sukantowere were in ...

SIDOARJO, Indonesia -- Since May, geophysicist Satria Bijaksana and fellow researchers have been wrestling with a big engineering problem: trying to slow the flow of boiling mud from a volcano that ...

Mud is still spewing from the ground in East Java, Indonesia, four years after a blowout on Lapindo Brantas’ nearby Banjar Panji-1 gas exploration well, writes Amanda Battersby. The mud has engulfed ...