New Push for Montara Oil Disaster Study

Jun 11, 2014 | Gabrielle Dunlevy, The Age
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Indonesia's government has added its weight to a new push to make Canberra and the Thai company behind the Montara oil disaster survey for damage beyond Australian waters.

For more than 10 weeks in 2009, an unknown quantity of oil and gas flowed unabated into the Timor Sea after the blowout on PTTEP's Montara wellhead platform, 250 kilometres off Australia's coast.