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  2. Kuwaiti oil fires - Wikipedia

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    Oil well fires, south of Kuwait City. (Photo taken from inside a UH-60 Blackhawk; the door frame is the black bar on the right of the photo) The dispute between Iraq and Kuwait over alleged slant-drilling in the Rumaila oil field was one of the reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. [5] [6] Kuwaiti oil well fire, south of Kuwait City ...

  3. Oil well fire - Wikipedia

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    Kuwaiti firefighters fight to secure a burning oil well in the Iraqi Rumaila oilfields in 2003. [2] A fleet of F-16s and F-15s fly past burning oil wells in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm, 1991. Oil well fires are more difficult to extinguish than regular fires due to the enormous fuel supply for the fire.

  4. Red Adair - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, Adair helped to extinguish the UK sector Piper Alpha oil platform fire in the North Sea. At age 75, Adair participated with extinguishing the oil well fires in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops after the Gulf War in 1991. Adair retired in 1993, and sold The Red Adair Service and Marine Company to Global Industries. [7]

  5. Firefighters progressing in stopping oil-well fires in Iraq - AOL

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    Firefighters are battling 18 oil well fires set by Islamic State militants as the fled the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara.

  6. Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - Wikipedia

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    The oil fires caused were a result of the scorched earth policy of Iraqi military forces retreating from Kuwait Aerial view of oil wells on fire. After the Iraqi victory, Saddam Hussein installed Alaa Hussein Ali as the prime minister of the "Provisional Government of Free Kuwait" and Ali Hassan al-Majid as the de facto governor of Kuwait. [61]

  7. Iraq's growing oil problem - AOL

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    Iraq was cut off from a large portion of its military supplies with the fall of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, last June. Low oil prices are only making rebuilding it and paying new soldiers ...

  8. Gulf War - Wikipedia

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    The coalition's advance was much swifter than US generals had expected. On 26 February, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, after they had set 737 of its oil wells on fire. A long convoy of retreating Iraqi troops formed along the main Iraq–Kuwait highway.

  9. Boots & Coots - Wikipedia

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    The two companies extinguished approximately one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers in the Gulf War. [3] [4] This work was featured in the 1992 film Lessons of Darkness. In 1997, the company was purchased by International Well Control, the successor of the Red Adair Company. [4]