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To: Brumar89 who wrote (94353)	4/17/2003 9:24:08 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

By May 1991 140 Wells By July 1991 265 Wells By August 1991 350 Wells By September 1991 500 Wells By November 1991 750 Wells Thanks for the link. I've got a better idea of what they were afraid of since I hadn't realized the extent of the fires from the Gulf war. The following paragraph is pretty mind boggling, and helps put in perspective this adminstration's concern about oil well fires, and economic terrorism in general. The rehabilitation of Kuwait’s oil industry, including well control and capping, repair of gathering centers, and the reconstruction of refineries exceeded $5 billion.[237] Kuwait spent an estimated $1.5 billion on the firefighting effort alone.[238] Lost economic output for the period of occupation totaled about $10 billion.[239] Economic losses were also sustained from damage to Kuwait’s ports, national airport, electricity-generating systems, petrochemical and other industrial facilities, satellite system, telephone and telecommunications network, media installations, and cultural sites. Conservative estimates of the total economic cost of the occupation to Kuwait are in the range of $30 - $50 billion.