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British Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies, who read the report under guard, said the actions of some of his colleagues had disgraced the Parliament. "Make no mistake, we are talking about very large sums of money," he says.
Some independent geologists, including Davies, believe that Lapindo may have inadvertently roused the awesome force slumbering beneath Indonesia. "I'm 98% certain this was due to drilling," he says. Davies, who visited Porong last year and has studied the eruption extensively, thinks he knows how that happened. On May 27...
Such a drop, called a loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then...
The Nature Argument Lapindo says its drilling plan was approved by the government. "The drilling process complied with mandatory regulations," says company vice president Yuniwati Teryana. "We met the requirements." Teryana offers another explanation for the eruption. Two days before Lusi started, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the city of...
Going with the Flow"] Lusi may, in fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide...