Oil well fires can cause the loss of millions of barrels of crude oil per day. Combined with the ecological problems caused by the large amounts of smoke and unburnt petroleum falling back to earth, oil well fires such as those seen in Kuwait in 1991 can cause enormous economic losses. Smoke from burnt crude oil. .
Oil well fires are that have caught on and . They can be the result of accidents, , or natural events, such as . They can exist on a small scale, such as an oil field spill catching fire, or on. .
Oil well fires are more difficult to extinguish than regular fires due to the enormous supply for the fire. In fighting a fire at a , typically , such as
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