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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: oil well fires and shuttle tiles
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:48:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.151130.3822@welch.jhu.edu> <8300@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <1991Mar17.211535.9716@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar21.215538.19983@dmntor.UUCP>
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In article <1991Mar21.215538.19983@dmntor.UUCP> bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle) writes:
>
>As far as I know there are 2 methods being used today.[to snuff burning oil wells,
as in Kuwait]
>
>A) Blow out the fire with an explosion
>
>B) Drill into the well pipe below the ground to choke the flames by
>diverting or blocking its fuel. 

Or, in the case of one of the first well fires to be put out since the end of the
ground action:  Put guy in fire-fighting suit, walk over to wellhead, turn off
valve to starve fire of fuel.  Seems the Iraqi sapper set his charge above the
shutoff valve for the well.  If they did it once...



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