Oil and gas field explosion - GIF

**Altair** · Nov 9, 2021, 08:13 PM

Explosion at Azerbaijan's Umid oil and gas field.

Previously:

'Eye of fire' in Gulf of Mexico - video
Extinguishing an oil well fire using a nuke - GIF
Extinguishing an oil well fire with artillery - GIF
Oil depot fire control - GIF
Fracking well explosion in Ohio - GIF
Philadelphia refinery explosion - GIFs

**Hoosiersmoker** · Nov 11, 2021, 05:21 AM

So much for the "Red skies at night" adage!

**old kodger** · Nov 13, 2021, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

So much for the "Red skies at night" adage!

Yeh, but not many shepherds about.

**nova_robotics** · Nov 13, 2021, 08:47 PM

I actually witnessed this in Fort McMurray about 15 years ago. I was driving to work at 4:30 in the morning and out on the horizon I could see the sun was coming up. Except it was a few hours too early. It was a continuous glow that really did look somewhat similar to the sun just beginning to rise. One of the cokers blew up at Suncor, and it basically made an artificial sun on the horizon. I was about a 45 minute highway drive away from the plant, to give an idea of how large the fireball was.