A "reference shot": gas well caught fire on the Yamal military put out a gun

Unique operation to extinguish the lighted up flowing well on the Yamal field Samburgsky soldiers spent the Central Military District, reported the news agency Znak.com.

A fire in a well "Arcticgas" under the New Urengoy started on August 19. Independent attempts to eliminate public fountain gas condensate were not successful - failure in the valve led to a chaotic release of the flame through the hole process, making it impossible for rescue workers and engineers.



Zone of thermal influence in the meantime expanded, and the category of the fire threatened more complicated. After an unsuccessful attempt to cut off the faulty flange directed laser beam guide gas company with the local unit of OOO "Gazprom gazobezopasnost" appealed for help to the command of the CVO, said the publication.

At the place of the emergency aircraft military transport aircraft was delivered from Orenburg gun MT-12 "Rapier" and artillery crew under the command of an officer management of missile troops and artillery CVO Colonel Gennady Mandrichenko.

The gun was set to direct fire from the minimum distance - 70 meters. Diameter target - 20 centimeters. Aiming at this prevented the flames, and even slip 10 cm threatened the destruction of wells and a loss of 350 million rubles.

But the Gunners did not let us down: cumulative projectile UBC-8 hit the top of the wellhead flange trim well, which freed the way flows of hot plasma, sending them straight up.

The operation is carried out on the accuracy of the reference shot, and soldiers who took part in it will present to the awards, the agency in CVO. A gas workers compared the task of artillery with the neurosurgical operation, the article says.