This Week in Petroleum History, February 9 – 15
February 09, 1953 – TIME features “Fire Beater” Myron Kinley –
Myron M. Kinley — born in 1896 in Santa Barbara, California, the son of an oil well shooter — was featured in a TIME magazine article about a blowout and fire on a drilling platform 14 miles off the coast of Louisiana. “The oilmen knew what to do. They put in a hurry call to the world’s most famous oil-fire fighter,” the article noted. (more…)
