Pengeboran ini dilakukan dalam upaya penghentian semburan lumpur panas di lokasi pengeboran PT Lapindo Brantas di Desa Renokenongo, Kecamatan Porong, Kabupaten Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, sejak 29 Mei 2006.
The drilling operation was done to stop hot mudflow from PT Lapindo Brantas exploration location in Renokenongo village in Porong area, Sidoarjo, East Java Province, the incessant hot mud came for the first time on May 29, 2006.