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Inspired gas well in Yamal the military put out a gun.

Unique operation to extinguish a burning flowing well on the Yamal Samburg field conducted military personnel of the Central Military District, reported the news Znak.com.

The fire at the well "Arcticgaz" under the New Urengoy started on August 19. Independent attempts to liquidate the open fountain of gas condensate have been unsuccessful - a fault in the valve has led to a chaotic flame emission through technological holes, making it impossible for rescue workers and engineers.





The zone of thermal influence, meanwhile, expanded, and category of the fire threatened more complicated. After an unsuccessful attempt to cut off the faulty flange directed laser beam gas company management together with the local unit of "Gazprom gazobezopasnost" sought assistance from the CVO Command, says the publication.

In place of the emergency aircraft military transport aircraft was delivered from Orenburg gun MT-12 "Rapier" and artillery crew under the command of an officer Management missile troops and artillery colonel Gennady CVO Mandrichenko.

The instrument was set to direct fire from the minimum distance - 70 meters. The diameter of the objective - 20 centimeters. This target acquisition prevented the flames, and even the slip 10 cm threatened the destruction of wells and a loss of 350 million rubles.

But the Gunners did not let us down: the cumulative projectile UBC-8 hit the top of the flange wellheads well, which freed the way flows of hot plasma, sending them straight up.

This operation is considered a benchmark for precision shots and soldiers who took part in it, to present awards, the agency in the CVO. A gas companies have compared the task of the artillery with the neurosurgical operation, the article says.

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