500 Wild Burning Oil Wells in
Kuwait, Set by Retreating Iraquis
Photo by Satellite, from 440 Miles
up. Oil and Soot Couds rose 20,000'
A swarm of Tornado-like plumes from the Burgan oil field in Kuwait (the world's 2nd largest) blacken the sky as oil-and-soot clouds rose 22,000 feet, releasing tons of pollutants daily. Taken from 440 miles up on TWO passes in Feb 1991. Look close for the tongues of red flames belching from 500 wild burning oil wells. Bottom hole pressures of 15,000 lbs per sq.in. complicates the dousing of the fires. The plumes threatened Iranian crops with acid rain and were carried as far East as India.
Kuwait, Set by Retreating Iraquis
Photo by Satellite, from 440 Miles
up. Oil and Soot Couds rose 20,000'
A swarm of Tornado-like plumes from the Burgan oil field in Kuwait (the world's 2nd largest) blacken the sky as oil-and-soot clouds rose 22,000 feet, releasing tons of pollutants daily. Taken from 440 miles up on TWO passes in Feb 1991. Look close for the tongues of red flames belching from 500 wild burning oil wells. Bottom hole pressures of 15,000 lbs per sq.in. complicates the dousing of the fires. The plumes threatened Iranian crops with acid rain and were carried as far East as India.
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