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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: Poison_UK on March 23, 2006, 17:59:56 PM
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Just a quick question sat watching Jarhead... When a oil well has being ignited how would you put it out, I mean thoose things burn like nothing else how on earth are you meant to put it out?
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Just a quick question sat watching Jarhead... When a oil well has being ignited how would you put it out, I mean thoose things burn like nothing else how on earth are you meant to put it out?
Its a Texas specialty: you set off an explosion to starve it of oxygen.
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:stupid: or you use a fire proofed bulldozer to puch a cap over it
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Im serious about the texan part, theres a crack team from there that travel the world to do this sort of thing. Saw a special on TV. Theyll set up a water curtain and use various methods like walking around in those silvery "volcano suits" to get the exposives close enough. Very brave men. :rock:
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Or.. theyll cap it with a big massive metal thing.
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Im serious about the texan part, theres a crack team from there that travel the world to do this sort of thing. Saw a special on TV. Theyll set up a water curtain and use various methods like walking around in those silvery "volcano suits" to get the exposives close enough. Very brave men. :rock:
They now ise both methods, the explosives is now reserved usually for those wells that have been too badly damaged to simply fasten an open valve on the end of whats left and then turn off the flow.
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The explosives thing reminds me of Armargedon the movie :)
Sounds kind of cool going to see if I can find some videos of them doing these techniques :)
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Explosives were used almost exclusively after the first Gulf war when Saddam set the fields alight.
If you cant get close enough, how are you going to attach a valve??
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yup i remember watching the tv coverage of them putting them out.
sometimes it was a case of 20 foot pole with explosive on the end of it
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Explosives were used almost exclusively after the first Gulf war when Saddam set the fields alight.
You sure about that?
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/owf_ii/owf_ii_tabc.htm
If you cant get close enough, how are you going to attach a valve??
They used a crane with the valve suspended from the end, guide the movement from observers using radio and lower it into place. Before they used to put the fire out before they put the valve into place but it can be useful to do it first.
They nearly always fit a new wellhead valve assembly before putting the fire out anyway.