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Paul Neal "Red" Adair (June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004) [3] [4] was an American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts , both land-based and offshore .
The Devil's Cigarette Lighter was a natural gas well fire at Gassi Touil in the Sahara Desert of Algeria.The fire was ignited on November 6, 1961, and burned until being extinguished by Red Adair and his colleagues, who used explosives to deprive the flame of oxygen, on April 28, 1962.
Paul N. "Red" Adair joined the M. M. Kinley Company in 1946, and worked 14 years with Myron Kinley before starting his own company, Red Adair Co., Inc., in 1959. Red Adair Co. has helped in controlling offshore blowouts, including: CATCO fire in the Gulf of Mexico in 1959.
Firefighter Red Adair had to be called in to control the well, which was capped on April 17. [ 157 ] February 2, 1975 - A ruptured pipe connection on a gas well, near Denver City, released hydrogen sulfide (H2S). 8 people were killed while trying to evacuate their nearby home.
Boots & Coots is a well control company and has international offices throughout the globe within Halliburton. It was founded in 1978 by Asger "Boots" Hansen, Jr. (May 29, 1926 – June 16, 2019) [1] and Edward O. "Coots" Matthews (April 23, 1923 – March 31, 2010), [2] veterans of the Red Adair Service and Marine Company.
To fill his role, Red Hat announced today that long-time executive Paul Cormier has been named president and CEO. Cormier would seem to be a logical choice to run Red Hat, having been with the ...
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 ...
Paul Giamatti turned the National Board of Review Gala into a date night with girlfriend Clara Wong.. The couple posed together on the red carpet while attending the event in New York City on ...