It ends at the oil wells.

...oil wells, shipping or real estate.

Most of the country's oil wells are situated in the vicinity of the mountain.

What will I live on, my oil wells in Texas?

Again the Iraqi representative stated that the fires in the Kuwaiti oil wells were the result of the war.

Iraq asserts that Syria has not established that pollutants from the Kuwait oil well fires reached Syria in toxic levels, or that there is a causal link between any respiratory pathology in Syria and the oil well fires in Kuwait.

Iran states that the oil well fires in Kuwait produced massive air pollution that spread to all the surrounding regions.

Third claim unit Respiratory effects of the Kuwait oil well fires on children Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 72,406,376 for losses suffered as a result of the exposure of sections of its child population to pollutants from the oil well fires in Kuwait.

Pollutants from the oil well fires and damaged oil wells in Kuwait Oil spills into the Persian Gulf from pipelines, offshore terminals and tankers Influx of refugees into the territories of some of the Claimants Operations of military personnel and equipment Mines and other remnants of war and Exposure of the populations of the Claimants to pollutants from the oil well fires and oil spills in Kuwait and to hostilities and various acts of violence.

Second claim unit Terrestrial and agricultural resources damaged by oil well fires Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 4,714,349,378 for losses due to adverse impacts on its terrestrial and agricultural resources of the pollutants from the oil well fires in Kuwait resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

And the plastics, we get from oil, which we go to more remote locations and drill ever deeper wells to extract.

Iran claims that pollutants from the oil well fires in Kuwait were deposited in parts of its territory.

24. Air pollution resulting from the burning oil wells in Kuwait represented a potential hazard to human health.

And we dove in the slick without even HazMat gear.

In the third F4 instalment, the Panel found that the Raudhatain and Umm Al Aish aquifers had been contaminated by oil from damaged oil wells and by sea water used to fight the oil well fires, and that this was a direct result of Iraq's invasion and occupation.

Iran also relies on the results of a study on the transport of pollutants from the oil well fires, using satellite imagery and black rain measurements.

The third claim unit is for losses due to increased mortality resulting from the effects of the oil well fires in Kuwait.

Iraq further argues that Saudi Arabia over estimates the actual levels of air pollution caused by the oil well fires.

The Panel, therefore, finds that Syria has not provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate a loss of livestock as a result of the oil well fires in Kuwait.

In this regard the Panel observes that, since the oil wells in Kuwait were not ignited until February 1991, any increases in the number of treatments in 1990, with the possible exception of treatments for mental health disorders, could not have been due to the effects of the oil well fires.

Iran proposes to consolidate, clean and protect archaeological sites and objects in Iran that were damaged by pollution from the oil well fires.

Iran presented evidence intended to show that some pollutants from the oil well fires in Kuwait reached parts of its territory.

These are little wells.

Wells of Badr... here

eyes of well water

Dig ditches.

Oil and gas production activities, including burning of oil and gas on stationary and mobile oil rigs, emissions from gas processing and leakage of hydrocarbons, accounted for about 23 .

In the first place, Iraq challenges Iran's claim that smoke from the oil well fires reached cultural heritage sites in Iran.

Iraq asserts that the only region in Iran that was noticeably affected by pollutants from the oil well fires was Khuzestan.

According to Iraq, the continuing decrease in sheep numbers after 1992 suggests that the reason could not have been the oil well fires.

The torching of the oil wells in Kuwait had created some 240 lakes of oil over 1 metre deep covering large areas of land and desert and constituting a serious hazard to the environment and human health.

Iran submitted an analysis of satellite images used to track the movements of the oil spills and contaminants from the oil well fires from Kuwait to Iran.

The fifth claim unit is for monitoring of groundwater resources in Iran to identify and assess damage by pollutants from the oil well fires.

As previously noted by the Panel, there is evidence that contamination from the oil well fires in Kuwait reached some parts of Iran.

The Panel has previously noted that there is evidence that parts of Iran experienced the effects of smoke from the oil well fires in Kuwait.

Thus, it is possible that some persons in parts of Iran were exposed to carcinogens that were released from the oil well fires.

According to Kuwait, the results of the risk assessment show that the number of deaths due to exposure to particulate matter from the oil well fires range between 0 and 116.

Nearly 600 industrial plants use radioisotopes, e.g. in food irradiation, polymerization, industrial radiography and oil well operations.

The third claim unit is for damage to cultural heritage resources in Iran caused by contamination from the oil well fires.

According to Iran, the purpose of the claim is to address the impacts of air pollution resulting from the oil well fires in Kuwait on its archaeological sites and objects.

In total, Iran claims that 3,263 additional cases of respiratory diseases were a direct result of pollutants from the oil well fires.

Iraq further argues that there is no evidence to suggest that acid rain occurred as a result of the smoke plume from the oil well fires in Kuwait.

The pall of smoke was so thick that we in the Gulf region could not tell day from night.

As a result, smoke plumes from the burning oil wells in Kuwait were transported to the Iranian basin and affected cultural and natural heritage artefacts and sites in the basin.

Iran submitted the results of an atmospheric and air quality model that it used to calculate the transport of contaminants from the oil well fires to demonstrate that some of the contaminants reached the territory of Iran.