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Devil's Cigarette Lighter [Composite]

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Title card: The Devil's Cigarette Lighter

Title card: Narrated by Red Adair



Overview of work site and Gassi Touil (GT2) fire Aerial view of Hassi Messaoud campsite Close-up of GT2 fire Sign: Entree Interdite Danger De Mort

Debris from well explosion Drilling for water in the Albian Water Sand Derrick Lifting jackknife rig for first relief hole

Long shot of GT2 fire

Directional driller reading chart

Water drilling operation and worker accomodations Aerial view of well campsite Digging water pits and covering with polyethylene Camp entrance and safety precautions Sign: Controle Permanent Du Personnel [Button system for keeping track of workers] Coffin attached to helicopter Working area for assembling equipment Adair with Ed "Coots" Matthews Water cooled hook Filling water pits

Long shot of GT2 fire

Cooling GT2 site Aerial view of work site Workers assembling water monitor houses; Adair mentions that the nozzles are manufactured by Ohio's Akron Brass Company Caterpillar D8 tractors First monitor house moving in Worker opening valves to water pumps

View of GT2 well fire with reflection on water

Removing wreckage from pipeline explosion Worker Charlie Tolar Adair explains some of the hand signals used by the crew Removing derrick Relief hole Adair explains process of pumping mud into relief holes Removing mud tank Removing mud pump Sign: SGE 81 Boom with broken hook Main flow Boom with shield Cutting wreckage from drilling rig Adair details process of using cutting torch to break up wreckage

Night view of GT2 well fire with debris removed Workers in relief hole Adair acknowledges the presence of french workers and crews on blowout sites Cooling area around fire Adair details the proper weather for putting out fire

Using explosive charges to stop GT2 fire Preparing explosives Shot bucket Adair loading charges Adair describes headaches from glycerin and attempted remedies Charlie Tolar helping with main charge Adding Ansul Dry Chemical to the charge Wrapping charge in asbestos Adair, Boots, Coots, and Tolar setting charge Explosion; Fire put out Aftermath of explosion Adair directing workers Hook after explosion Gas rushing out of well head Leaking water hoses

Replacing wellhead and blowout preventer Removing damaged wellhead Clearing area around wellhead; Adair talks about precautions taken to avoid sparks or static electricity that could re-ignite a well fire Diagram: Damaged wellhead, with Adair detailing the wellhead replacement operation Digging out area below wellhead Drilling engineer for CEP [Compagnie D'exploration Pétrolière] with the last name Le Blanc Sawing conductor pipe with hacksaws Sawing off pipe head with sand line Adair explains why he's cutting off wellhead Cutting section of conductor pipe to expose casing Close-up of gas rushing out of pipe (Adair calls this "flow") Pipe cutter tool, with Adair detailing its design process, crediting Mark [sp?] and Associates, and Lecryder [sp?] Gear Adair and crew wearing goggles and working next to pipe Section of conducter pipe blowing off pipe Worker putting hand into gas flow; Adair comments, "Now this is a foolish stunt." Assembling new wellhead, with Adair detailing parts that were manufactured by Cameron Iron Works Close-up of damaged wellhead Hinge bolt Welding hinge bolt to Cameron AW-type 1500 series braden head Adair directing workers Installing new wellhead and blowout preventer Diagram: Cameron AW-type braden head Using boom to drop head onto pipeline Diagram: Cameron 900-series flange, slips, and packing element Safety engineer using Explosimeter gas detector Blowout preventer Two six-inch flow lines with two valves on each side, a Cameron manual valve and a Cameron Type F 1500 series blowout preventer Dropping blowout preventer into place Worker using Explosimeter

Bolting blowout preventer to wellhead Pulling blowout preventer into place Adair pulling rope connected to blowout preventer Workers attaching bolts in adverse conditions Charlie Tolar

Shutting off the gas flow to GT2 and finishing job Adair: "And this is what you waited six months to do." Adair and workers walking off job site John Korshe [sp?], who Adair describes as a "head man" for CEP [Compagnie D'exploration Pétrolière] and COPEFA [France-Africa Oil Company] Close-up of GT2 gas flow with blowout preventer and safety lock attached Long shots of gas flow Choke manifold Closing off valve, with gas flow coming to a stop Diagram: Cameron wellhead, spool, blowout preventer, valves and flow lines. Adair details how the equipment was installed and used Adair: "The irony of the whole thing is they don't want gas, so they'll cement this whole well up and just leave it." Aerial view of work site Long shot of fire burning in the night, panning to show reflection on work truck Pumping mud into GT2; CEP's [and COPEFA's?] mud-pumping set-up John Korshe [sp?] giving the order to fill the GT2 well with mud Adair on costs of job

End credits Title card: A Film Presentation By: Cameron Iron Works, Inc.

Title card: Under supervision of Boone & Cummings Advertising Agency

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GLIFOS-social media video Metadata Title: Devil's Cigarette Lighter [Composite] Identifier: e_bb_5016 Related: e_bb_5014 e_bb_5015 e_bb_5023 Description: Produced film documenting Paul "Red" Adair and company's infamous 1961-'62 fight with an gas well fire in the French Saharan desert-specifically, the Gassi Touil natural gas field in Algeria. Contains footage of the event with narration by Adair, giving an in-depth account of the processes and equipment used to stop the fire and contain the flow of gas. Diagrams of the replacement wellhead and blowout preventer (manufactured by Cameron Iron Works, Inc.) are also shown, with Adair detailing their functions. Adair points out appearances by crew members Asger "Boots" Hansen, Ed "Coots" Matthews, and former Houston Oilers fullback, Charlie Tolar, and also acknowledges John Korshe [sp?], who Adair describes as a "head man" for CEP [Compagnie D'exploration Pétrolière] and COPEFA [France-Africa Oil Company]. Composite version of sound and picture from related files, with color inverted. Country: Africa State: Algeria City: Gassi Touil Date: circa 1965 Creator Bailey, Bob Location: 77/1.1 Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive Contributor: Adair, Red (narrator) Boone & Cummings Advertising Agency Red Adair, Co., Inc. Cameron Iron Works, Inc. Tolar, Charlie (worker) Language: en Publisher Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Rights: © Red Adair Co./Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Original Format: color negatives; sound tracks, 16mm

