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Man pumps oil from world’s shallowest field in East Java

7/28/2026

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Sujiyanto, 51, drove a jury-rigged red truck to pump crude oil from the Wonocolo field in East Java.
He lowered a pump hundreds of feet underground and hauled it up filled with oil.
The Wonocolo field, found by troops in 1893, is about 1,600 ft deep, one of the world’s shallowest oil fields.
Teak derricks and smoke rose over the hills on a recent Wednesday during subsistence drilling.

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Story summary

Sujiyanto, 51, drove a jury-rigged red truck to pump crude oil from the Wonocolo field in East Java.
He lowered a pump hundreds of feet underground and hauled it up filled with oil.
The Wonocolo field, found by troops in 1893, is about 1,600 ft deep, one of the world’s shallowest oil fields.
Teak derricks and smoke rose over the hills on a recent Wednesday during subsistence drilling.