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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...