THE clanging sound of iron chains being hoisted up from the drilling derrick loudly echoed through Well No. 3 area at Kedungtuban, Desa Pulo, Blora regency, Central Java, on the afternoon of Wednesday last week. Iron piles the size of a man’s thigh dropped to the ground with a boom snuffing the cries of workers readying the well’s head under the 50-meter-high rig.

That was the scene at Pertamina EP oil field at Desa Pulo where exploratory dr