Industry | Oil and gas |
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Headquarters | Sidoarjo, Indonesia |
Key people | Rinov Putra Laksono |
Products | Petroleum Natural gas |
PT Lapindo Brantas is an Indonesian oil and gas exploration company. It was established as a joint venture between PT. Energi Mega Persada Tbk. (50%), PT. Medco Energi Tbk. (32%) and Santos Australia (18%). The Bakrie family, through its investments, held a controlling stake in PT. Energi Mega Persada Tbk. Lapindo Brantas currently employs a staff of 77 permanent and contract employees and 142 personnel working for the company through a third party contract. [1]
Lapindo Brantas operates in the Brantas Block in East Java, Indonesia. The working area covers 3,042 square kilometres (1,175 sq mi) encompassing two onshore and three offshore sites:
In 2009, Lapindo Brantas started to supply households in East Java with natural gas. [2] The project involves supplying 8 million cubic feet per day (230×10 3 m3/d) of gas to households in surrounding villages of Surabaya. [3]
The Sidoarjo mud flow is the result of an erupting mud volcano [4] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas well drilled by Lapindo Brantas, although some scientists [5] and company officials contend it was caused by a distant earthquake.
Lapindo Brantas took responsibility in covering the cost of emergency response and victim resettlement, paying more than Rp.5 trillion (approx. US$550 million) [6] despite its acquittal as the cause of the mudflow in 2009 by Indonesia's Supreme Court. [7]
Industry | Oil and gas |
---|---|
Headquarters | Sidoarjo, Indonesia |
Key people | Rinov Putra Laksono |
Products | Petroleum Natural gas |
PT Lapindo Brantas is an Indonesian oil and gas exploration company. It was established as a joint venture between PT. Energi Mega Persada Tbk. (50%), PT. Medco Energi Tbk. (32%) and Santos Australia (18%). The Bakrie family, through its investments, held a controlling stake in PT. Energi Mega Persada Tbk. Lapindo Brantas currently employs a staff of 77 permanent and contract employees and 142 personnel working for the company through a third party contract. [1]
Lapindo Brantas operates in the Brantas Block in East Java, Indonesia. The working area covers 3,042 square kilometres (1,175 sq mi) encompassing two onshore and three offshore sites:
In 2009, Lapindo Brantas started to supply households in East Java with natural gas. [2] The project involves supplying 8 million cubic feet per day (230×10 3 m3/d) of gas to households in surrounding villages of Surabaya. [3]
The Sidoarjo mud flow is the result of an erupting mud volcano [4] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas well drilled by Lapindo Brantas, although some scientists [5] and company officials contend it was caused by a distant earthquake.
Lapindo Brantas took responsibility in covering the cost of emergency response and victim resettlement, paying more than Rp.5 trillion (approx. US$550 million) [6] despite its acquittal as the cause of the mudflow in 2009 by Indonesia's Supreme Court. [7]