Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn. They can be the result of accidents, arson, or natural events, such as lightning...

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...

catastrophic oil or gas fire. Prior to the advent of pressure control equipment in the 1920s, the uncontrolled release of oil and gas from a well while drilling...

counterpart is still visible on the west-bound side. A company of Texas oil well firefighters, headed by the legendary Paul “Red” Adair, came to Oat Mountain...

explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world...

resulting in a fire. Oil well control is one of the most important aspects of drilling operations. Improper handling of kicks in oil well control can result...

land and offshore oil well, natural gas well, and similar spectacular fires. He gained global attention in 1962 when he fought a fire at the Gassi Touil...

causes that have been investigated are cyclosarin and emissions from oil well fires, but their relationships to the illness are not as clear. Gulf War illness...

by an American oil company to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerin needed to extinguish an oil well fire. It is adapted...

earthquake swarm near injection wells, largest 4.7 May 21, 2012 - A fire and explosion broke out at an abandoned crude oil tank battery, near El Dorado....