Well control hands don't take a lot of photographs, sadly, and no video. They're all too busy working. And most companies having the problems don't want the publicity or anything that might be used against them down the road somehow. We're often told, no photographs and no talking about it.

Sometimes rig hands and personal on location that had a lot to do with the blowout in the first place take a few photos, but it's always from a quarter mile away where they won't get hurt.

Kuwait was an exception to that and a lot of good photos of production wells on fire are floating around. The great Algerian fire in North Africa in 1964 had a professional photographer that shot black and white stuff that was breathtaking but now owned by Getty and prints can cost up to $5000 each, and more. If you steal one off the…

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The giant, Ekofisk oil field was discovered in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in 1969, about 180 miles southwest of Norway, in 285 feet of water. Phillips Petroleum was the operator.Ekofisk was the first commercial oil discovery in the North Sea. The field was initially delineated and developed from three well platforms, Alpha, Bravo and Charlie; in 1996-1998 addition wellhead platforms were installed. The field's wells are completed in over-pressured Cretaceous aged carbonates at vertica

Most people don't even read the rest of the blog, they just like me making an ass out of myself about tight oil economics and exports, and otherwise really bad energy policies.

This I just posted, an interesting look into a major event of oilfield history in 1977. Try it, it won't hurt, promise, and I am proud of the research and my old boss. At least look at the pictures.