Extinguishing an oil well fire with artillery - GIF

[Altair]

Extinguishing an oil well fire with artillery.




Previously:

Fracking well explosion in Ohio - GIF
Oil depot fire control - GIF
Philadelphia refinery explosion - GIFs

[Toolmaker51]

For artillery, that must be the shortest range/ lowest trajectory ever. I doubt the gun-laying calibration even goes that low, so they compensated by bore sighting.

[jimfols]

When stories on oil well fires come up we should always remember Red Adair. R.I.P.

[VinnieL]

That looks like old artillery, like maybe WWII. Wonder where that happened?

[Toolmaker51]

Q] Who is Red Adair?
A] Probably best known fire fighter ever, specialist in oil well fires
Q] Here in the states?
A] No, world wide.
Q] Well known?
A] Well, known enough to dispatch for Kuwait and the hundreds of fires set by retreating Iraqi's...
Q] HUNDREDS?
They'd never seen the satellite photos, excuse the young.

[owen moore]

May I add that Mr. Adair was very well paid for his expertise and services.

[hemmjo]

I did enjoy reading about Red's exploits.

This video seems to have issues that cause me to question the authenticity and gives me many questions.

I did not see how the gun in that video had much effect on the fire. Perhaps they were just using the gun to remove the damaged well head, so they could install the "chimney"

The video looks pieced together from different work sites, in different eras. There appears to be a lot of heavy equipment on site, but the men are struggling to manually to move the gun. If you shine a light in the muzzle of a gun, and peek in the breech, you will clearly see the rifling in the barrel. The face masks the men are wearing appear to be that type we see in response to the covid issue, so this was very recent?

Just curious...

[Toolmaker51]

Caught up in the scene, I overlooked details. I'd have to lap screenshots to see all are same location, spot occupied take video is all over the place and time.
But no denying, glance down supposed bore, is one 'shot-out' [and very short] barrel!

But it HAS to be true! I saw it on the internet!
Sure thing kid. And One Million Years B.C. was a live documentary...

[Frank S]

I was in Kuwait in 91 during the raining of oil fire and black soot for a while
Noon day sky a black as night and the night sky as bright as noon.
Those masks similar to the ones in the video would have only been seen worn by persons far away from the fires anyone close enough to feel the heat wore various kinds or real breathing equipment depending on what country you were from you might even see someone wearing NBC gear left over from WWII.
Any armillary pieces I saw were self propelled like combat engineers would have maybe a 155 mm or 210 mm mortar tube mounted on an armored dozer That is not to say there may not have been any towed howitzers used to shoot off the damaged well heads though.
With over 800 wells on fire no single person not even MR Adair would have seen all of them. A lot of teams from several countries worked round the clock in a coordinated effort to quell the single most man made disaster of modern times. Many of the support personnel never got within several miles of any fires. You didn't need to get near to feel the effects though. the black Smokey haze blanketed all of Kuwait and much of Saudi Arabia.
When I went back in 2003 when driving out near the oil fields you could still see spots of oil blackened desert.
one thing in my opinion that congress and old man Bush should have done was to demand the few countries in the first gulf war coalition was to march all the way straight through Baghdad and eliminated every person of the Iraqi government and the Iraqi guard then let Kuwait annex Iraq. But Kuwait never through its history had any asperations of conquests. They even gave Saudi Arabia 2/3s of their land mass back about the time that oil was first discovered there because they didn't see any need for the extra land at the time. Kuwait was more about its 800 boat navy of dhows for prawn fishing