The Red Adair Service and Marine Company
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In 1972 Red Adair Service and Marine Company, Inc. was formed to design, sell and/or lease special firefighting equipment essential in controlling oilwell fires. Among the company's greatest tasks and accomplishments occurred in 1991 following the Gulf War with Iraq. Red and his team extinguished 117 of the burning oilwell fires ignited by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi troops retreating from Kuwait. Although estimates of completion of the firefighting operation ranged from three to five years, this monumental task was completed in a record nine months.
