Devil's Cigarette Lighter [Composite]; Devil's Cigarette Lighter [Composite]
- Opening credits
- Title card: Red Adair Co., Inc. Presents
- 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