Osama in Tbilisi?

oil flooding

I am convinced they are looking for Osama bin Laden or perhaps oil on our street in Tbilisi. They have been drilling for awhile and keep moving this oil tanker tower down the street with the asthmatic cranes and trucks which make my lungs shudder. In one of the slightly monsoon-like rains which have been hitting the city, you see the gutters spiling water on to the construction.

They are attempting to put these pillars in the ground to stabilize the earth so that when they dig, the buildings are not affected. When the stores in front of our house expanded, they did not put foundation under the added portions of the stores and now with the drilling to fix the water pipes which were posted in March, the metal shutters will not close anymore provoking the owners to complain and get the city out here to "dig for oil" or pretend that they are fixing the situation. That is what they are really doing with the oil rigs. Please feel free to let me know if you think this fortification will work. I am not convinced having been brought up in an architectural/engineering family.