2018 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition Calendar– January Image
Mark Badick Grandson of KJ “Smokey” Miller April 10, 1963 – January 25, 2017 This time last year, Mark passed away. He was a key member of our organization and will be greatly missed. He is shown here on the last well during the Kuwait…
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…
Remembering Mark Badick
Mark Badick passed away from cancer on the 25 of January 2017. Mark is the grandson of Smokey Miller the founder of Safety Boss, he is the nephew of Mike Miller the present CEO of Safety Boss. In the early days the company was run out…
Kuwait Oil Fires – last well extinguished November 6th 1991
Below is a short interview with Mike Miller, Safety Boss CEO, and Mark Badick, Safety Boss Well Control Specialist. Both men took part in the capping of 180 wells over 200 days in Kuwait in 1991. They talk about capping the last well and life after Kuwait….
Watch Safety Boss in action on Netflix
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kuwait Oil Field Fires. Netflix is featuring a documentary created by renown director Werner Herzog in 1992. “Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 film by director Werner Herzog. Shot in documentary style on…
2016 Safety Boss Inc. – Limited Edition – October Calendar Image
25th Anniversary of The Kuwait Oil Well Fires In this photo you can see the Smokey Firetruck using the overhead turret to control the immense ground fires that existed in the Kuwait Fires Project. There were huge oil lakes burning all over the oilfields, many…
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 – 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…
Kuwait Oil Field Fires in Pictures
This week we are sharing pictures of the ‘fields of fire’ and the “stinging of wells”.