We received two nominations for "Hellfighters, " the lackluster 1968 John Wayne vehicle based on the life of oil well fire wrangler Red Adair.
On March 6th the Pentagon, breaking its previous silence on the matter, announced that a division of Halliburton, the oil-services firm previously headed by Vice-President Dick Cheney, will co-ordinate the oil-fire fighting efforts if they are needed.
When some of his new Wyoming oil wells caught fire, a then cash poor Anschutz managed to convince famed oil firefighter Paul (Red) Adair to go there to put them out.
When some of his new Wyoming oil wells caught fire, Anschutz, who was cash-poor at the time, managed to convince the famous oil firefighter Paul (Red) Adair to go there to put them out.
Brent crude's position as the accepted benchmark for pricing most of the world's oil is coming under fire, as experts in the oil market say the blend doesn't reflect true global supply and demand.
The wreckage, the oil and the fire became too much and he lost his grip.
They also present fewer safety risks than the 2008 explosions when Burlington Northern Santa Fe oil cars caught fire in Oklahoma, requiring evacuations.
To pay for disasters like the Piper Alpha oil-rig fire of 1988, and then 1989's Exxon Valdez shipwreck off Alaska, unprecedented wads of money were now required from the names' own pockets.
But as these countries argue for more money for the EU, their own positions are deteriorating, and giving the EU more money looks a little like somebody is pouring oil onto a fire.
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Looking at crucial steps BP has taken in crisis management since the oil rig explosion and fire, you see a more mixed story.
Controlled burns had been tried and tested before, and had been shown to be "effective in burning 50 to 95% of oil collected in a fire boom", she said.
Simulating a major fire on an oil rig for training purposes is not an easy thing to do.
The Pentagon has now confirmed that Iraq has also set fire to two oil wells in southern Iraq.
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The fact is that adaptations of the V-22 have virtually unlimited potential to improve interurban air transport, short-haul commercial delivery, oil spill containment, forest fire-fighting, emergency relief delivery, and a host of other functions.
Crude oil prices rose following the fire at the massive Paraguana refining complex, which, combined with a halt in Ecuador's exports, and a reported blast at the Aqaba port of Jordan, was enough to give the market the jitters.
Bayou Perot was the scene of an explosion and fire on a specialized oil rig in December 2010 in which three men were injured.
Some of us can remember the public health and environmental catastrophes that propelled Earth Day, the Earth Day movement in the first place, the Cuyahoga River literally catching on fire from all the oil and dumped trash that was in it.
As demand skyrockets with the burgeoning middle classes in countries like China and India, palm oil producers and buyers have come under fire from environmentalists for widespread deforestation in countries like Indonesia that contribute to climate change and extirpation of endangered wildlife.
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They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming says that 2-BE isn't an oil and gas chemical but is a common fire retardant used in association with plastics and plastic components used in drinking wells.
In his report, Flt Lt Cowan did mention the possibility that "a local prankster" was at work, and when contacted recently, he said the description of aliens from many witnesses "fitted exactly the type of protective suit that would be used in the event of a fire at one of the local oil refineries at Milford Haven".
Investors came under heavy fire in 2008 as the price of oil and food raced upward.
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"We are aggressively responding with our state and local partners to mitigate the fire and prevent any potential impacts from oil that entered the water, " said Cmdr.
"Forty-one survivors said that they smelled oil, but there were no witnesses of flames, fire or a water column, nor were there any injuries from these factors, " Yonhap quotes the full report as saying.
Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.
That's not enough to set it on fire, but it is enough to release the oil.
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