Indonesia Oil Links

Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rig

Fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.

Dead fish drifting in Indonesia after oil leak

Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.

Mud eruption 'caused by drilling'

The eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia was caused by drilling for oil and gas, a meeting of 74 leading geologists has concluded. Lusi erupted in May 2006 and continues to spew out boiling mud, displacing around 30,000 people in East Java.

Corrupted pipe dreams in Indonesia

JAKARTA -The opening of a new US$1.1 billion gas pipeline would appear to mark a rejuvenation of Indonesia's until now woefully inefficient natural-gas sector and boost the fortunes of publicly listed, majority state-owned gas-distribution company PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN).

Behind the violence in East Timor

East Timor (or Timor-Leste) won its independence seven years ago following a quarter century of one of the most brutal occupations of the 20th century, carried out by the U.S.-backed Indonesian military.