Well Control - Red Adair and others

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Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Pigeon » Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:15 am

Paul Neal "Red" Adair (June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004) was an American oil well firefighter.

Adair was born in Houston, Texas, the son of an Irish blacksmith, and attended Reagan High School. He began fighting oil well fires after returning from serving in a bomb disposal unit during World War II. He started his career working for Myron Kinley, the "original" blowout/oil firefighting pioneer.

He founded Red Adair Co., Inc., in 1959, and over the course of his career battled more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well, natural gas well, and similar spectacular fires.

Adair gained global attention in 1962, when he tackled a fire at the Gassi Touil gas field in the Algerian Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450 foot (140 m) pillar of flame that burned from 12:00 PM November 13, 1961 to 9:30 AM on April 28, 1962.

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Boots & Coots is one of the world's premier well control companies. It was founded in 1978 Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews, veterans of Red Adair Service and Marine Company


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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Pigeon » Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:31 am

Wild Well Control is a well control company based in Houston, Texas that has worked to mitigate several high profile well control issues including the Kuwaiti oil fires and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

According to its website it has responded to 2,700 well control and pressure control events including the majority of the large international well control emergencies.

Wild Well put out a well fire near me in 2002.

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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Royal » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:09 am

Pigeon wrote:

Wild Well Control is a well control company based in Houston, Texas that has worked to mitigate several high profile well control issues including the Kuwaiti oil fires and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

According to its website it has responded to 2,700 well control and pressure control events including the majority of the large international well control emergencies.

Wild Well put out a well fire near me in 2002.

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I would actually enjoy that job. Seems like a lot of thinking and strategy to save Earth.

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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Pigeon » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:29 am

Natural gas make a fine gas light.

A flare burning off gas a night is really bright, not to mention loud.

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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Pigeon » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:30 am

I would actually enjoy that job. Seems like a lot of thinking and strategy to save Earth.
You should see what is left of steel that's been in the flame. Toasted.

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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Royal » Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:51 am

Seems toxic. I'll pass.

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Re: Well Control - Red Adair and others

Post by Pigeon » Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:54 am

Not sure if a rig is more toxic before or after a fire. Hydrocarbons are pretty nasty.

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