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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...