Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. A few months later, a fire broke out at another well Adair was ...

Iraqi forces set fire to over seven hundred Kuwaiti oil wells during the last Gulf War, leaving a dangerous mess for allied forces to face. Companies like Red Adair's Wild Well Control, Safety Boss, ...

This is like the one in the movie, The Hell Fighters," said Gibbs. John Wayne played Red Adair in the 1969 classic. The Houston native and pioneer in industrial fire fighting, died earlier this month.

World-renowned oil well firefighter and industry legend Paul ""Red"" Adair died on 7 August in Houston. He was 89. For an industry some times disparaged for harming the environment and other presumed ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Piper Alpha was a large, fixed production platform operated by ...