Show Navigation

Bedouin camel herders and their flock with an oil well fire blazing in the background. Hundreds of camels graze around the fire in the Rumaila field being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.

Filename
IRQ_030401_060_rwx.jpg
Copyright
©Peter Menzel, www.menzelphoto.com
Image Size
1024x682 / 328.8KB
Arabs animals camels fire petroleum energy middle east conflict flame war scorched earth environmental waste damage destroyed pollution polluting politics invasion invade
Contained in galleries
Pollution, Iraq
Bedouin camel herders and their flock with an oil well fire blazing in the background.  Hundreds of camels graze around the fire in the Rumaila field being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
Info

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries