While digging through old vacation photos from before the pandemic (I forgot the exact time but the metadata said June-July 2019), I ran into an interesting set of pictures I took in a village in Cepu, a rather rural district along the border between the provinces of Central and East Java. Most of these images were of an oil field run by local communities, ostensibly under a contract with Pertamina (Indonesia’s state-owned oil company), but it’s often quite difficult to tell which wells are being mined according to this official arrangement and which ones are mined illegally. I guess I’ll post some of these pictures since it’s not like I have anything better to do.
The oil field was rather deserted when I passed by, with only a few wells being manned at the time. On one hand this reflected the fact that not all of the wells were productive, but on the other hand it was also in the middle of a national holiday so maybe a large proportion of the workforce was also having some time off.
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