Ten years ago a mud volcano erupted near Lapindo Brantas’ Banjar Panji gas wildcat onshore East Java, Indonesia.
Fast-forward a decade and the lives of almost 50,000 people have been forever changed, damages run close to $3 billion and the mud continues to spew up from the ground.
On 28 May 2006 the Banjar Panji-1 well suffered a gas kick, an incident that most within the scientific community cite as the cause of the unstoppable mudflow.
