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  2. Oil well fire - Wikipedia

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    Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn. They can be the result of accidents, arson, or natural events, such as lightning. They can exist on a small scale, such as an oil field spill catching fire, or on a huge scale, as in geyser-like jets of flames from ignited high pressure wells. A frequent cause of a well fire ...

  3. Kuwaiti oil fires - Wikipedia

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    Smoke plumes from a few of the Kuwaiti Oil Fires on April 7, 1991, as seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-37. [1] [2]The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led ...

  4. Oil well control - Wikipedia

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    1904 oil well fire at Bibi-Eibat (near Baku, Azerbaijan). Oil well control is one of the most important aspects of drilling operations. Improper handling of kicks in oil well control can result in blowouts with very grave consequences, including the loss of valuable resources and also lives of field personnel. Even though the cost of a blowout ...

  5. Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia

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    The most famous was the Little & Merrick well, which began gushing oil on 17 April 1861. The spectacle of the fountain of oil flowing out at about 3,000 barrels (480 m 3) per day had drawn about 150 spectators by the time an hour later when the oil gusher burst into flames, raining fire down on the oil-soaked onlookers. Thirty people died.

  6. Top kill - Wikipedia

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    A top kill is a procedure used as a means of regaining control over an oil well that has been producing or is experiencing well control issues with crude oil or natural gas in the well. It is not a procedure where control has been lost over the well, like a blowout. The process involves pumping heavyweight drilling mud into the well.

  7. Red Adair - Wikipedia

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    During the course of his career, Adair helped extinguish more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well, natural gas well, and similar spectacular fires. He gained global attention in 1962 when he fought a fire at the Gassi Touil gas field in the Algerian Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter , a 450-foot (140 m) pillar of flame that ...

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  9. Category:Oilfield terminology - Wikipedia

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    Driller (oil) Drilling rig; Oil well control; E. Elevators (drilling rig) ... Oil well dog house; Oil well fire; Glossary of oilfield jargon; Onshore (hydrocarbons)