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What is the name of this place ?

2 September 2008 5 Comments

Supposedly a few years ago somewhere in north India they were trying to find oil. Instead, out of the ground came a huge amount of boiling hot mud.  The mud swamped the village which is now like a modern day Pompeii where the whole place has no population and the people are still fighting for compensation from the company who was drilling. I don’t have any more detail.

I have done quite a lot of browsing on Google for anything that would resemble such thing and nothing I search for comes up with anything.  It was shown on the Discovery Adventure Channel in Australia.

Can anyone tell me what place this village is located ?

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5 Comments »

  • anoop aka --xh-- said:

    never heard of this, will keep looking for this info…

    # 2 September 2008 at 4:07 PM
  • lakshmi said:

    I vaguely remember this now that you tell me..but I cannot recollect the name of the village..will search as well

    # 2 September 2008 at 5:40 PM
  • Celine said:

    I searched too and the closest I could find was about mud volcanoes in Andamans and also in Indonesia.

    # 4 September 2008 at 4:41 AM
  • Shivanand said:

    I also don’t know. Never saw on TV and never heard of it before. Sorry, but would come back check about it.

    # 7 September 2008 at 9:11 PM
  • Shantanu said:

    Really? As far as I know, oil exploration has been confined to the ocean basins around India; inland drilling has mostly been tried in the North East.

    # 7 September 2008 at 10:10 PM

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