Asteroid hits oil field

[MrQwertyasd]

So let’s say an airburst over the Gulf of Mexico, or Baku, or the North Sea - generally the fields are old and not holding much pressure so we’re not looking at loads of fires ?

[MrQwertyasd]

@dracoi

That’s a good question. I know that explosives are sometimes used to put out an oil rig fire - deprive the area of oxygen and the fire goes out. A nuke would certainly consume and/or push out all of the oxygen for a brief time, but it would probably leave a lot of hot surfaces and small fires behind that could ignite the oil. In a desert, residual fires would be less likely than in a forested, grassy or urban area.

I think I’ve seen that on TV - there was a guy called Red Adair famous for capping burning wells.