Back حرائق آبار النفط الكويتية Arabic Küveytdəki neft quyularının yandırılması Azerbaijani Incendi dels camps petrolífers de Kuwait Catalan Πυρπόληση πετρελαιοπηγών του Κουβέιτ Greek Incendios petroleros de Kuwait Spanish آتش‌سوزی‌های نفتی کویت Persian Incendies de pétrole au Koweït French 쿠웨이트 유전 화재 Korean Incêndios petrolíferos no Kuwait Portuguese Incendierile de petrol din Kuweit Romanian

Kuwaiti oil fires

Smoke plumes from a few of the Kuwaiti Oil Fires on April 7, 1991, as seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-37.[1][2]

The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led coalition forces in the Gulf War.[3] The fires were started in January and February 1991, and the first oil well fires were extinguished in early April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991.[4]

  1. ^ "IV. Air Pollutants From Oil Fires and other Sources". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  2. ^ "Tab J – Plume Configurations". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  3. ^ "Persian Gulf War". Britannica. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  4. ^ "III. Chronology of Events, A. Discussion". Archived from the original on 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2014-06-06.

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