Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Piper Alpha was a large, fixed production platform operated by ...

World-renowned oil well firefighter and industry legend Paul ""Red"" Adair died on 7 August in Houston. He was 89. For an industry some times disparaged for harming the environment and other presumed ...

HOUSTON -- Oil field firefighter Paul N. "Red" Adair, 89, who was instrumental in capping Kuwaiti oil wells set ablaze by Iraq and was immortalized by John Wayne in a movie based on his life, died Aug ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about the Piper Alpha disaster, one of the most catastrophic offshore oil incidents of all time and the worst in terms of lives lost. The drama comes ...