保罗•尼尔•阿代尔Red Adair——著名的消防员,行走于全世界,每每出现在如地狱一般炎热的火场,去扑灭熊熊燃烧的大火。他的公司在伊拉克军队被击退时,曾奉召扑灭科威特的油田大火,他对这个重要的真理可是一点也不陌生。他是这样说的:人生不是把事情做好,而是努力把事情做好。
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George
Houston
Colonel Valdez Chance
Adair
Piper Alpha
Scotland"Woo. It's about time you got back to earning an honest living. If you think I'm going to say it's a pleasure to be here, forget it. Hi boss. George, nice to see you. I spent a lot of your money. Well, what did you do, buy up all the control heads in Houston? This far away from supplies, you get all the spares you can. This is Colonel Valdez Chance. He's in charge of keeping us from getting shot. Well, I hope you do a good job, Colonel. If I do not, you will have my profound apologies. The longer you guys stand there, the longer it's going to take to unload this thing. Right Joe…"
In 1988, Adair fought what was possibly the world's worst off-shore accident. It was at the Piper Alpha drilling structure in the North Sea. Occidental Petroleum operated the structure off the coast of Scotland. The structure produced oil and gas from 24 wells.
167 men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak. Red Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells. He faced winds blowing more than 120 kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least 20 meters high. |