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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mud is still leaking from the Banjar Panji-1 drilling site in Sidoarjo regency in East Java, more than a month after a suspected gas blowout occurred at the wildcat. Thousands of people remain in ...

For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...

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 ...

The largest mud volcano eruption has been raging in Indonesia since May 29, 2006. At its peak, 180,000 cubic meters of mud flowed daily from a site near a heavily populated region of Java—enough mud ...

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 ...

For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...