Can you put out an oil well fire in Tekkit?

Wanting to go to space I started my base next to some oil wells. Today when I logged on to my server, I was welcomed by this view:

... what are my options here? Can I put them out somehow? What do I do?

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3 Answers

Managed to put it out doing the following:

• /gamemode doFireTick false
• Cover the layer above the oil with dirt to put out the fire (including the 5 blocks at the top of the oil thing
• /gamemode doFireTIck true

There is a much better solution: go to the buildcraft config (usually tekkitfolder/config/buildcraft/main.conf), and then find the line:

B:burnOil=true

And simply set it to false. This will disable burning oil completely, without messing with other fire behaviour.

Remember that the oil fires do waste the oil, let it burn long enough (couple of hours, sometimes a few days..., that is real time, not in game...) and the fire will clean all the oil... Had this storage tank, figured dumping oil in there with flood gates was a cheaper option than building a shitload of tanks, and after a weeks vacation come to see it on fire and about empty....