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Adair, ‘Red’

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Adair, (Paul Neal) ‘Red’ (1915–2004)

US oil-well problem specialist. In 1962 Adair established his worldwide reputation by extinguishing the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a pillar of flame, fuelled by 550-million cubic feet of gas a day, that had burned for six months in Algeria. He has also handled the Occidental Petroleum Company's platform disaster in the North Sea in 1988 and extinguished oil-well fires in Kuwait in 1991.



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