US team said to put out second oil well in southern Iraq

BBC Monitoring ^ | March 29 2003 | Kuna

[knighthawk]

Kuwait, 29 March: The American oil fire fighting team has [put] out a second burning well in Iraq's Al-Rumaylah oilfield in the south of the country Saturday morning [29 March], a Kuwait oil source said. The source told Kuwait News Agency that he saw the American firefighters dousing the well known as A4 this morning. This is the second well extinguished by teams working to cap a number of wells set ablaze by the Iraqi regime forces before withdrawing from parts of southern Iraq as coalition forces advanced northwards. The first blazing oil well in Al-Rumaylah was capped by the Kuwaiti firefighting company last week.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rojo Rodriguez (married to a distant cousin of Red Adair) is on the job...

[TexasBarak]

My wife asked me the other day how they put out an oil well fire. She was a bit shocked when I told her that it's done by detonating a large charge of dynamite near the wellhead :)

[Jambe]

A couple of years ago there was a PBS Frontline or Discovery channel program that documented this process.

It followed a crew that was working the Kuwait oil field fires back in '91.

If I recall it took almost 2 years to clear the Kuwait mess.

Found this link - http://www.alba.net/content/kuwait.htm