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To: Stew who wrote (1156)	12/20/1998 9:52:00 AM
From: Michael M. Cubrilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15703

The well water is not actually 'burned off', it is evaporated due to the heat. This takes energy. It simply means that much of the energy in the gas, when burned, is used to turn water into vapor. You need a few things to have combustion: fuel, oxygen, temperature.... remove any one of these from the 'Triangle' and you can no longer support combustion. So, if you have too much water it may be enough to lower the ignition temperature and "snuff out" the fire. Many oil and gas well fires are put out by placing explosive charges near the well head and then setting off the explosives. What the explosives do is consume the available oxygen in the immediate area due to the explosion, which in turn takes away the oxygen from the well fire and voila!.... the fire is out. Unless there is a 'reignition source', the fire will stay out. FYI. Mike