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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 .
Hellfighters is a 1968 American adventure film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton and Vera Miles.The movie depicts a group of oil well firefighters and is based loosely on the life of Red Adair.
His lieutenant, Red Adair, went on to become the most famous of oil well firefighters. 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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (164 ft) deep. [2] On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in the largest oil spill in history at