The (oil) rivers of babelan
This hard up, hitherto unknown area apparently has oil reserves amounting to hundreds of millions of barrels. The discovery is the largest in the last 10 years.
February 10, 2004
IT has been more than two years now since the night skies at Babelan in the Regency of Bekasi, West Java, have been enveloped with a bright red glow. Giant torches, soaring up tens of meters above the surface of the earth, spitting out flames into the upper atmosphere. Phosphorescent lights can be seen for kilometers around, lighting up several places in the regency, 40 kilometers east from Jakarta.
The sources of these lights are flares pou
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