The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 10/28/2009 3:16 PM
A well spurting water, mud and gas has developed at a location in Bapelle village, Sampang district on Madura Island that was being surveyed by oil company SPE Petroleum on Wednesday, Antara state news agency has reported.
Personnel from the company had intended to have a controlled dynamite blast at the site, believed to contain valuable petroleum and gas reserves
However, the plan was canceled when a well in the yard of a Bapelle village resident suddenly erupted after oil company employees had installed a pipe connection there.
The flammable mixture of mud, water and gas has been continually erupting from the well and has become a flow that has begun to cover local residents' rice fields around the exploration site.
"We are worried about the existence of the new mud flow since it is beginning to flood some of our rice fields," a local villager, Kurdi Sari, said.
SPE Petroleum has yet to issue a statement on the mudflow.
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