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  2. Red Adair - Wikipedia

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    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] His top employees (Brian Krause, Raymond Henry, Rich Hatteberg) left in 1994 and formed their own company ...

  3. Oil well fire - Wikipedia

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    Some of the technology used by Red Adair to seal some of the Kuwait oil fires without re-igniting the flow of oil, originated in a patent by John R. Duncan (United States Patent 3,108,499 filed September 28, 1960, granted October 29,1963), a method and apparatus for severing section of fluid pipeline therefrom.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Devil's Cigarette Lighter - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Boots & Coots - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking ...

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    In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells ...

  8. Ixtoc I oil spill - Wikipedia

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    In the next nine months, experts and divers including Red Adair were brought in to contain and cap the oil well. [6] An average of approximately 10,000 to 30,000 barrels (2,000 to 5,000 m 3) per day were discharged into the Gulf until it was finally capped on 23 March 1980, nearly 10 months later. [9]

  9. Oil firms are gushing for Trump, but he may soon be giving ...

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