As far as the eye can see, yellowish hectares of land are visible. A short distance away, mounds of black earth forming small hills appear. On that day, apart from a group from Pekanbaru, there was no other human activity in that corner of the Minas oil field some 30 kilometers from the capital city of Riau.
"This is the site where we process the oil waste products," said Nur Lela, leader of the group from US-based energy company Chevron Pacific Indonesia, last week. Lela is certain that within the layers of yellowish soil, millions of bacteria are hard at work, neutralizing the soil from crude oil waste products.
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