Smokey Fire Trucks still going strong in Kuwait 25 years after the Oil Field Fires
In late February 1991 the Safety Boss emergency response plan moved into high gear. Enough equipment to support three full crews was mobilized in Calgary AB. On April 5 the first of two US Air force C5 Galaxies arrived in Calgary to airlift equipment and…
“A Nightmarish Picture” An Interview with Mike Miller
Mike Miller, Safety Boss Inc CEO, is interviewed by Taschen during a podcast highlighting some of their exciting new featured art books. The book, “Kuwait, A Desert on Fire”, by Sebastião Salgado is a collection of his epic photographs taken while on the ground with…
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – September Calendar Image
This month we have a picture of a well control recovery operation in Northern Alberta. The mast has collapsed and now the whole rig and substructure has to be untangled and completely removed in order to gain access to the well head. This is a very…
“Much of it was fused by the heat of the fire…”
No two blowouts are the same and they all require unique fluid solutions to control them. Dwight Matson, former Safety Boss firefighter working on this blowout, spoke to us about how this particular wellhead was cleared and capped. Safety Boss: What caused this blowout? Dwight: These images…
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – August Calendar Image
The image on our August page of the calendar is from the Kuwait Fires Project. All of the oil and gas wells in Kuwait, 732 in total, were set ablaze by the retreating Iraqi army once Operation Desert Storm began. This upwind photo is of the Burgan…
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – May Calendar Image
This very large blowout occurred in Bangladesh and was originally estimated at over 100 mm/scf/D. When it blew in the operator only had limited surface casing in the hole and the flow quickly breached to the outside of the pipe causing a cratering or…
Fighting a blowout during spring runoff… In Pictures
Gallery – Northern BC Blowout
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – April Calendar Image
In this photo the Safety Boss crew has froze the wellhead off using nitrogen so that the wireline tools that were caught across the master valves could be removed.
Safetyboss works off shore – in pictures
Since the revolution in 1979, American firms had been restricted from operating in Iran. Except for Safety Boss, all of the blowout control specialists were located in the U.S. In 1984, when an offshore well in southern Iran blew out of control officials in Iran…
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – March Calendar Image
These photos were taken during the Kuwait Fires Project. This project started immediately following Desert Storm, the military action that drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. In the big photos you can see an abandoned Iraqi tank that had been destroyed. The…