I was there. I appear a number of times in the film. One clear shot is at 8:42 with Jim T. om my hard hat. It was an interesting 8 months and this video doesn't show half of it. I am proud that I was able to participate and would care nothing about doing it again. We had to take the wells one at a time, and not think about how many were waiting. Before, during and after Kuwait, one fire at a time is all you can handle.
This is the first time I've seen this program. A very good friend of mine from Louisiana, George Conover appears at 12:46 in the video. He was running inflatable packers for Baker Oil Tools at the time. He past away in 2018.
I was there gulf war when the oil fires started it lasted for two months mostly total darkness . I was there for almost a year I wasn't back in country long I had two massive strokes . they determined environmental toxic shock. it took almost 20 years to heal enough to work again.
I loved that panning shot after the narrator says that “Kuwait had basically become a US colony of Texas...” and the shot panned to 12+ Ford pickup trucks 😂😂
This is why I never listen to so called "experts". To these experts I say this. Get away from the computer and get into the field. It is in the field where you can find out what is happening, not the computer.
So much talk of pollution, but we were burning that anyway... Why was this worse? Was it due to lower burning temperatures, conditions, pressures? what was it?
It’s not refined and its combustion is completely uncontrolled in every way. Petrochemical combustion is orders of magnitude “cleaner” when a smaller, refined fraction of hydrocarbons is being burnt, and conditions are such that combustion is complete, and even cleaner when the products of combustion are passed over a catalyst, as they so often are in automobiles and many other applications. Also, crude oil contains a considerable fraction of things that are not typically used for fuel but rather for other things such as tar and asphalt. Burning that fraction, along with all the sulfur and other compounds typically removed during the refining process, adds to the pollution.
My brother in law was a second lieutenant with a couple of 155mm howitzers in Desert Storm. When he came back he had a stack of pictures about an inch and a half thick of blown up tanks and stuff with dead guys hanging out all over the place and I remember thinking, "they sure don't show this stuff on the nightly news"! It was weird, after the first twenty, they all start looking the same!?
I know North America has its own crazies .... But could you imagine .. If roll was revered ? We have nut cases like that here and Iraq coming over to do this ... We are very lucky .
Toopy Anne Binoo No the world is very lucky. This could’ve easily been China, Russia, or Iran or any other country capable of destroying another nation. The world is lucky that WE are the ones doing it, because it it wasn’t us, it would be someone MUCH worse.
I was there. I appear a number of times in the film. One clear shot is at 8:42 with Jim T. om my hard hat. It was an interesting 8 months and this video doesn't show half of it. I am proud that I was able to participate and would care nothing about doing it again. We had to take the wells one at a time, and not think about how many were waiting. Before, during and after Kuwait, one fire at a time is all you can handle.
I just seen you Jim T.
Thanks for uploading! I remember watching this when I was a child and I was in awe! Great video and a great time!
This is the first time I've seen this program. A very good friend of mine from Louisiana, George Conover appears at 12:46 in the video. He was running inflatable packers for Baker Oil Tools at the time. He past away in 2018.
I was there gulf war
when the oil fires started it lasted for two months mostly total darkness .
I was there for almost a year
I wasn't back in country long I had two massive strokes .
they determined environmental toxic shock.
it took almost 20 years to heal enough to work again.
I was there. I just got turned down on service connection. Have too reaply.
Hard have the strength to go on anymore.
Bless you both
Herculean efforts by men like these. You’ll never get away with that today on tv. Great programme really interesting
I loved that panning shot after the narrator says that “Kuwait had basically become a US colony of Texas...” and the shot panned to 12+ Ford pickup trucks 😂😂
back when Ford trucks looked sexy as hell
12:54
My dad is in this.
Thank your dad for a job well done 👍
Hell yeah thats whats up !!!!! Much respect
Ken Snyder was my uncle, Nathan Snyder was my cousin. RIP guys, love you both.
From kuwait 🇰🇼 god bless your dad thank you
Thank your Dad for an amazing job 🙏🏼
My pops was here as a medic for the people who were putting the fires out name was DAVID FREELS worked with boots and coots wild west company
This is why I never listen to so called "experts". To these experts I say this. Get away from the computer and get into the field. It is in the field where you can find out what is happening, not the computer.
Awesome history lesson
Das anyone know the music at around 29:00 minutes? Title? Musician?
Nova did this documentary also but Stacey Keach was the narrator
So much talk of pollution, but we were burning that anyway... Why was this worse? Was it due to lower burning temperatures, conditions, pressures? what was it?
It’s not refined and its combustion is completely uncontrolled in every way. Petrochemical combustion is orders of magnitude “cleaner” when a smaller, refined fraction of hydrocarbons is being burnt, and conditions are such that combustion is complete, and even cleaner when the products of combustion are passed over a catalyst, as they so often are in automobiles and many other applications. Also, crude oil contains a considerable fraction of things that are not typically used for fuel but rather for other things such as tar and asphalt. Burning that fraction, along with all the sulfur and other compounds typically removed during the refining process, adds to the pollution.
@@the_color_orange thank you! That's really interesting!
Raw Oil is heavy
My brother in law was a second lieutenant with a couple of 155mm howitzers in Desert Storm. When he came back he had a stack of pictures about an inch and a half thick of blown up tanks and stuff with dead guys hanging out all over the place and I remember thinking, "they sure don't show this stuff on the nightly news"! It was weird, after the first twenty, they all start looking the same!?
War crimes!
Glad you're brother-in-law stayed safe. Thanks to him! War is hell!
I was there.
Tell ur brother we say thanks!!!
Needed it
I'm proud of Al Swearingen.
He narrated an hour long documentary and didn't say "Cocksucker" a single time!
19:49 "It's not a wham bam thank you mam job"
28:45 this guy must have a really great health insurance.
Nah man, that's just how oilfield people are. When shit is hitting the fan, some of the hardest motherfuckers rise to the occasion.
They all know they will die from this. And still did ghe job
Ian McShane ❤
everybody on earth inhaled that smoke
I know North America has its own crazies .... But could you imagine .. If roll was revered ? We have nut cases like that here and Iraq coming over to do this ... We are very lucky .
Toopy Anne Binoo
No the world is very lucky. This could’ve easily been China, Russia, or Iran or any other country capable of destroying another nation. The world is lucky that WE are the ones doing it, because it it wasn’t us, it would be someone MUCH worse.
yes, I saw news live feed allies air force bombs rain oil wells cut off supply.
The USA will be a hammer trying to kill a fly in a china cabinet!!
2 things: Electric vehicles and thorium reactors. Nature has shown us time and again that specialists go extinct.
Bad take…
4:00
I was there .. funny
They all dead for sure
They all know the risks and they get
Paid very well for what they do