I lived in Saudi Arabia as a kid. My grandfather worked in Dhahran I used to watch the oil well fires from our back yard patio. Huge monster fires. I could feel the heat all the way to the house. 1960 was the time. I will always remember the smell of all the oil. Never could get away from it.
Video cut off. People need to see what takes place next and it would help to explain the man on the ground is directing the placement on the new valve system and the piece he carries is to keep the heat off him , water as well ( when he used it for an umbrella ).
After capping complete, nuts and bolts tight. Then subbing unit install on top to kill well. Fire shield used was just a sheet of tin used on house roofs. This is my video , thanks, Barry
At the end of the Gulf War in the early 90's, Iraqi soldiers blew up over 600 oil wells in the Kuwaiti oil fields before fleeing home to Iraq. A world coalition of oil fire teams went in to stuff them out, most teams were from Texas. A great film by Werner Herzog, "Lessons of Darkness" (1992), documents the alien landscape of destruction after the war. About half way into the film, Herzog focuses on the even more alien world of burning wells shot from helicopter and even dangerously close to the teams stuffing wells. A surreal world of fire, black smoke, and the desert mostly turned black from unburned oil. You can watch it on UA-cam for $2.99, well worth it and important to support great works of art. It was on Netflix for a while. Herzog treats it like a science fiction film and does not overdo the length of the film (about 35 minutes). The last scene is the most powerful. One of Herzog's best Documentaries.
Now to find a video on how that cap was secured to the wellhead. Like, what is that green thing and does it inflate to seal the bottom and somehow secure the cap?
Their capping an oil well that was lit on fire. The oil rig was removed, dug out around the pipe that carries the oil, cut it clean. Then put in this assembly with valves. Then they do something to get the fire out and turn the valves off. They usta just use dynamite to remove the oxygen from the fire, which puts the fire out, then they would cap it. Not sure how they get the fires out now a days
They're desparately trying to extinguish a deadly fire and you're talking about boilers lol. I suggest visit a oil well during a fire, then you'll feel the heat.
They are spraying water to cool the capping. The capping is super heated from the burnout. When water comes in contact with a super heat object the water turns to vapor. What you are seeing is the vapor run off from the heated capping and it forms a cloud.
Lmao then what is it? You realize we pump it up out of the ground from these very wells and utilize it right? It's not sci-fi. Please don't say something stupid like the fires of hell.
SSSV is run as part of the production tubing and this is blowing out the casing head with no tubing. But even if there was (hypothetically) tubing somehow installed and hanging with no tbg hanger and no packer (or a leak or sleeve above packer) to facilitate casing flow as seen... An SSSV or SCSSV would not help the flow from the annulus. Note: I'm well aware of the multiple reasons there isn't tubing installed. I'm just using hypothetical situations to explain that a downhole valve still wouldn't matter.
I lived in Saudi Arabia as a kid. My grandfather worked in Dhahran I used to watch the oil well fires from our back yard patio. Huge monster fires. I could feel the heat all the way to the house. 1960 was the time. I will always remember the smell of all the oil. Never could get away from it.
I'm a Saudi from Dhahran
you're always welcome to visit
Same! Except 90s-00s
He received a posthumous medal for 3 hours service, a company record.
Video cut off. People need to see what takes place next and it would help to explain the man on the ground is directing the placement on the new valve system and the piece he carries is to keep the heat off him , water as well ( when he used it for an umbrella ).
After capping complete, nuts and bolts tight. Then subbing unit install on top to kill well. Fire shield used was just a sheet of tin used on house roofs. This is my video , thanks, Barry
Looked so small...
Until you see the guy standing next to it.
At the end of the Gulf War in the early 90's, Iraqi soldiers blew up over 600 oil wells in the Kuwaiti oil fields before fleeing home to Iraq. A world coalition of oil fire teams went in to stuff them out, most teams were from Texas. A great film by Werner Herzog, "Lessons of Darkness" (1992), documents the alien landscape of destruction after the war. About half way into the film, Herzog focuses on the even more alien world of burning wells shot from helicopter and even dangerously close to the teams stuffing wells. A surreal world of fire, black smoke, and the desert mostly turned black from unburned oil. You can watch it on UA-cam for $2.99, well worth it and important to support great works of art. It was on Netflix for a while. Herzog treats it like a science fiction film and does not overdo the length of the film (about 35 minutes). The last scene is the most powerful. One of Herzog's best Documentaries.
I remember
@@CL-we8tn Did you see the film "Lessons of Darkness" by Werner Herzog?
@@andragg no i have not
Wow this is great team great work matey!
I wonder how much the guy holding the "will work for food sign" got paid to go down there in the inferno...
ceedaddy mote than you and I make in a day combined lol
Now to find a video on how that cap was secured to the wellhead.
Like, what is that green thing and does it inflate to seal the bottom and somehow secure the cap?
I don't know what's going on here, but for some odd reason I sure as hell wouldn't want to be that guy down there.
Their capping an oil well that was lit on fire. The oil rig was removed, dug out around the pipe that carries the oil, cut it clean. Then put in this assembly with valves. Then they do something to get the fire out and turn the valves off. They usta just use dynamite to remove the oxygen from the fire, which puts the fire out, then they would cap it. Not sure how they get the fires out now a days
Hope that ground guy got to retire for this.
Nick Burns-Steele Ha ha ha ha ha by no means that's his livelihood and he gets paid really well. Seen this type of work before and it's well executed.
No doubt, probably hard to walk with those giant steel balls he is lugging around.
Nope, just another day in the life of a guy in his position.. don’t worry he is compensated
For this ? Nah, just a regular Monday morning.
Signing is better than any device
Great video!
Never seen this, but the security said no cameras in the zone and no cameras in the field without passes.
Good job for spare pipe with covered sistem,
starts at 2:30
3:13 dude has balls of titanium...
I remember this well. We took it under control finally.
WHEN THIS HAPPENED , WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM
@@ahmedalqadi2085 you know what happened Saddam Hussein blow up all the oil wells
full video please
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Hellfighters
"CAPITAN AMERICA"
"En tiempos de Hambre"
The guy with the firehose was all over the place. Were those rams to close in the well?
Ce qui me rend malade , c'est de voir la quantité astronomique d'eau utilisée ! Tout ça parce qu’un gars n'arrive pas éteindre son briquet !
Always shoot the video till conclusion
I doubt you or anyone wants to watch this go on for hours lol
The guy on the ground is a helper. He's not paid well.
@Larry Schroeder with almost my whole life in the oil patch...more than you.
and then?
What if that flame of fire use for heating boiler in micro electric power plant?
They're desparately trying to extinguish a deadly fire and you're talking about boilers lol. I suggest visit a oil well during a fire, then you'll feel the heat.
That explains fuel prices
Like 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🇧🇷
How is the new head secured to the old pipe.
Duct tape
That is an easy oil
why is all the dirt far away smoking
Maybe water mist
They are spraying water to cool the capping. The capping is super heated from the burnout. When water comes in contact with a super heat object the water turns to vapor. What you are seeing is the vapor run off from the heated capping and it forms a cloud.
thats gas not oil wake up people
Lmao then what is it? You realize we pump it up out of the ground from these very wells and utilize it right? It's not sci-fi. Please don't say something stupid like the fires of hell.
Chuck D its gas
This won't happen if they have a SSSV there ....
SSSV is run as part of the production tubing and this is blowing out the casing head with no tubing. But even if there was (hypothetically) tubing somehow installed and hanging with no tbg hanger and no packer (or a leak or sleeve above packer) to facilitate casing flow as seen... An SSSV or SCSSV would not help the flow from the annulus. Note: I'm well aware of the multiple reasons there isn't tubing installed. I'm just using hypothetical situations to explain that a downhole valve still wouldn't matter.
brave man but his work could be done with some cameras, no need to put his life in risk.
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there is no much pressure on head !!!! i can do it this capping !!!
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oil= earth death
It's still easy when you want to stop halfway on your fart change your underwear and continue your fart.
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Terrible comm skills. Very amateurish.
Boooooring!