Crude Oil in Soil UVF-500D Analyzer Applications - Case Study

Kuwait Oil Well Fires, 1991 Iraq War
Photos from the U.S. Space Shuttles (nasa.gov), show oil wells set on fire along the Persian Gulf in June 1991. Hundreds of wells burned, some up to ten months. An estimated 1 to 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil was released, leaving behind hundreds of lakes of oil and “tarcrete” soot across 5% of Kuwait’s landscape. In 2021, Kuwait has plans to finish remediating the contamination.