Adair would tell a television station when he was going to put out a fire despite complaints that it was bad press on the part of the well's owner, " but there was not a thing in the world that they could do about it, " said Patrick Campbell, chief executive of Wild Well Control.
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The firefighters doubt all the wells would be burned, but the fires could be bigger in Iraq because there is more oil to feed the flames : Kuwait's wells pumped an average 20, 000 to 40, 000 barrels per day; some Iraqi wells are capable of producing 60, 000 to 80, 000 barrels, said Bill Mahler, marketing manager at Wild Well Control.
