Paul Neal "Red" Adair was the world's most renowned professional in the well to surround fires and also quiting blowouts of oil installations. In Norway, he was known when he stopped the unrestrained oil blowout on the Ekofisk Bravo platform in the North Sea in 1977.
Adair started the company Red Daire Wild Well Control in 1959. He made use of all his know-how to quit oil fires or getting the oil wells in control. During his job he subjugated in 2000 "would certainly" wells. Adair grew up in poor scenarios, and he found out to quit oil fires with Myron Kinley, where he functioned from 1939 to 1959.
His filmography her he: oil fire "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" in Algeria, which had actually been recurring for six months and melted 550 cubic meters of gas daily, a huge oil fire near Rio de Janeiro, exhaust at the Occidental Petroleum Company Piper Alpha North Sea in 1988 in which 167 people passed away.
Adair died quietly at a healthcare facility in Houston, 89 years old.He was so famous that it has actually been made a film concerning his life Hell Fighters with John Wayne in the lead duty.
Our collection contains 4 quotes who is written / told by Red.
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control"
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur"
"I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery"
"I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out"
