Fighting Iraqi Oil Well Fires
by Peter Menzel/science Photo Library
Title
Fighting Iraqi Oil Well Fires
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Peter Menzel/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Oil well fire. Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Comapny's Kuwait Wild Well Killers (KWWK) sheltering behind a metal shield as they guide a boom to a blazing oil well. This is in the Rumeilah Oil Field in southern Iraq. The oil wells were set alight by Iraqi troops as they retreated from the invading coalition forces in March 2003. At the end of the boom is a stinger", which pumps drilling mud into the well at high pressure. This extinguishes the flames and stops the flow of oil, allowing the well to be put back under control. Photographed in March 2003."
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February 15th, 2021
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