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Indonesia’s gusher of gas, mud and graft

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Sep 22, 2006
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On May 28 at 10 a.m., something terrible went wrong deep inside Banjar Panji I. There, 1,800 meters into the exploratory gas well being drilled near the Surabaya satellite town of Sidoarjo, about 900 km. southeast of Jakarta, investigators believe employees of PT Lapindo Brantas, the company drilling the well, “broke every rule in the book”.

They failed …

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