Choking on crude

Indonesia’s teeming capital is a city of glittering skyscrapers and grinding poverty — in other words, a city of contradictions.

Amid such chaos and in a place where things are not always what they seem, many Indonesians are not surprised at the ironic turn their country’s oil industry has taken.

… Chevron is, by far, Indonesia’s biggest oil producer, pumping more than 10 billion barrels of oil over 50 years from the Duri and Minas fields — and 80 others in central Sumatra. But the mature fields, although they still produce 475,000 barrels per day, are in decline.

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