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  • Johnson-Turnbull Winery in Oakville, Napa Valley, California.  Winemaker, Kristin Belair, inspecting a barrel sample of unfiltered white wine in the winery's barrel cellar. The winery was purchased in 1992 by Patrick O'Dell and renamed Turnbull Winery. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Johnson Turnbull Winery co-founders, Reverdy Johnson (attorney) and Bill Turnbull (architect), and son Andrew Turnbull, in the barrel cellar of the winery. Mr. Johnson is holding a 6-liter bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon; their best known wine.  The winery was purchased in 1992 by Patrick O'Dell and renamed Turnbull Winery. Photographed in 1990.  Oakville, Napa, Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Johnson Turnbull Winery co-founders, Reverdy Johnson (attorney, at left) and Bill Turnbull (architect), in the barrel cellar of the winery. Mr. Johnson is holding a 6-liter bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon; their best known wine.  The winery was purchased in 1992 by Patrick O'Dell and renamed Turnbull Winery. Photographed in 1990. Oakville, Napa, Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_26StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA. Napa Valley. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch stands next to barrels of beer at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, goes about the day's chores at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A view of the loading area and warehouse of Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, where Joachim Rösch works as a brewmaster.  (Joachim Rösch is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.)
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • Johnson-Turnbull Winery in Oakville, Napa Valley, California.  Winemaker, Kristin Belair, inside a clean stainless steel fermentation tank. [Once the grapes are harvested, they are poured into a crusher that separates the stems from the grapes; the grapes and juice are then funneled directly into the stainless steel tank for fermentation.]  The winery was purchased in 1992 by Patrick O'Dell and renamed Turnbull Winery. Photographed in 1990. Photographed in 1990. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Musee D'Orsay art museum in a converted train station. Paris, France.
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  • Grape harvest. Bordeaux, France.
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Winemaker Daryl Sattui, with his son Mario and dog Lupo, in one of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley, California..Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sparkling wine cellar of Sterling winery, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Jerry and Sigrid Seps who owns Storybook Mountain Vineyards display their wine cave which still shows pick marks left by Chinese laborers over a Century ago. Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Darryl Sattui with his son Mario, 11, and German Shepard, Lupo, in the cavern of their Napa Valley Castle which is part of the Sattui Winery in Northern California. Calistoga. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Interior of the library at El Escorial, Spain.
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  • Interior of the library at El Escorial, Spain.
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  • 2.5 million bottles of wine aging in the Campillo Winery's wine cellar, Laguardia, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • 2.5 million bottles of wine aging in the Campillo Winery's wine cellar, Laguardia, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Musee D'Orsay art museum in a converted train station. Paris, France.
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  • Kelvin Lester maneuvers a 2,000-pound bin of ?50s? (carcass trimmings that are half fat) toward the grinding and blending machines at the Rochester Meat Company in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Less desirable trimmings with a higher fat content are ground into blends with different percentages of lean meat. The ton of 50s is added to other leaner cuts, and sometimes reconstituted beef fat?which is even cheaper?is mixed in as well.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, inspects the church's wine cellars at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Children queue for water at a communal watering point in the Kibera slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
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  • Toeleria Victoria, wine barrel factory in Haro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Coopers making wine barrels at Bodegas Muga in Haro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_20StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Wine barrels in the Sattui Winery wine cave in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Far Niente Winery caves with oak barrels aging the wine. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Far Niente Winery caves with oak barrels aging the wine. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_12StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountain Vineyards.
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  • Oak barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • In preparation for the upcoming harvest, barrels are washed at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.) La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Thousands of wine barrels in the aging cellars of the ultra-contemporary Bodegas Campillo in Laguardia, Spain. They use stainless steel fermentation tanks but employs both modern and traditional methods in the winemaking process. Their aging barrels are both American and French oak. The bodegas' youngest wine is four years old. The winery maintains an area where buyers of quantities of the wine can store what they buy. Because of automation, there are only five fulltime employees running the extensive entire daily operation. Few year round workers are needed. La Rioja, Laguardia, Spain.
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  • Oak barrels of wine in R. Lopez Heredia winery, in Haro, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine aging in oak barrels at the Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine. The doors were hand carved by Peter McCrea, the winery founder..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Peter and Willinda McCrea, owners, in the winery with doors carved by Peter's father who started the winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Palmaz winery cave. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Palmaz winery cave. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Italian restaurant owner Gianni Paoletti and his wife in the caves of Paoletti Estates Winery. Napa Valley, California. The restaurant he owns is called Peppone and is located in West Los Angeles. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • .USA_WINE_04_xs.Germain-Robin hand-distilled Alambic Brandy. Photographed at the distillery on a sheep ranch in Ukiah, California. Ukiah, California. USA.
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  • Paoletti Winery cave, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Tasting Room of R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. Dust, mold and cobwebs add to atmosphere.  La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine aging cellars of the Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. winery, in Labastida.  Rioja, Spain.
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  • Palmaz winery cave. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Dolce desert wine aging room in the Far Niente Winery caves in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Betty O'Shaughnessy and her winemaker in the new caves aging rooms. MODEL RELEASED. Napa Valley, California.
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  • One of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley  by winemaker Daryl Sattui California. Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Almaden Vineyards. Winemaster Klaus Mathes standing in Charles Lefranc cellar at Cienega Winery. Almaden Cienega Winery near Hollister, California,. The winery is located squarely across the San Andreas fault trace, and has been affected by fault creep. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Dining room in the caves of Pine Ridge Winery in Yountville, Napa Valley California.
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  • Lew Price, 46, General Manager of Quixote Winery. Owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • Far Niente Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • O'Shaughnessy Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Aged wine in bottles at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. The aging cellars are not dusted and the older sections have a tremendous buildup of mold, dust, and cobwebs that give the cellars the look of a horror movie set.  La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine aging cellars of the Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. winery, in Labastida.  Rioja, Spain.
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  • Huge oak fermenting tanks at R. Lopez Heredia winery in Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.)  La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine aging cellars of the Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. winery, in Labastida.  Rioja, Spain.
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  • Racking wine at Bodegas Muga, in Haro, Rioja, Spain.  Cellar workers check clarity and color by candlelight.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • One of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley  by winemaker Daryl Sattui California. Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Barrel Cactus at Gates Pass near Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Detail of a 50th anniversary wine barrel at R. Lopez Heredia winery in Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.) La Rioja, Spain.
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  • A tornado of oil and smoke is mirrored in a vast lake of oil in the Al-Burgan Oil Fields, Kuwait. In this field alone, there were more than 300 oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. The $20 billion effort to extinguish the fires lasted until the end of the year. Each day, in this oil field alone, the loss was estimated at 5 to 6 million barrel. Huge burning oil lakes added smoke and oily rain to a nightmarish scene. May, 1991. (NPPA Winner; Communication Arts Winner).
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joe Bowden of Wild Well Control, Inc. In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field alone. Huge oil lakes were forming.
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  • Hundreds of camels graze around the oil well 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.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) connect hoses to water tanks and pumps by the second oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. Later in the day they failed to extinguish this fire with water and then tried to stop the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. This was also unsuccessful. 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..
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  • One of the oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the southern Iraq Rumaila oil field (and one in the distance). The wells were set on fire with explosives placed by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March of 2003. Seven or 8 wells were set ablaze but at least one other was detonated but did not ignite. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley) in the foggy winter rain. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_42StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley) in the foggy winter rain. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley) in the foggy winter rain. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine.
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  • Barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • Larry Flak- O.G.S. chief engineer coordinator. In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field.
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  • US Army helicopters landing near burning oil wells in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field, in southern Iraq. The wells were set on fire with explosives placed by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began. Seven or eight wells were set ablaze but at least one other was detonated but did not ignite. 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.
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  • For five days in a row, Kuwait firefighters attempted without success to kill an oil well fire in the Rumaila field placed by retreating Iraqi troops. 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.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the second oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with 5 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.
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  • One of several hundred camels grazing in the Rumaila Oil Field of Southern Iraq walks in front of a burning oil well being fought by the Kuwaiti Wild Well Killers, a division of the Kuwait Oil Company. The Rumaila field is one of Iraqs 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.. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • One of several hundred camels grazing in the Rumaila Oil Field of southern Iraq walks in front of a burning oil well being fought by the Kuwaiti Wild Well Killers, a division of the Kuwait Oil Company. 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.
    IRQ_030401_043_rwx.jpg
  • One of several hundred camels grazing in the Rumaila Oil Field of southern Iraq walks in front of a burning oil well being fought by the Kuwaiti Wild Well Killers, a division of the Kuwait Oil Company. 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.
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  • A camel grazes near the Rumaila oil fields of southern Iraq.  Hundreds of camels graze around the oil well fire being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve.  Rumaila, southern Iraq. 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.
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  • Boots and Coots team member study a gushing oil well minutes after the fire was extinguished; the ground is still smoking. The well was capped two hours later using a "stinger" a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest 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.
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