This license is for scooters and mopeds with no more than 50 cc (3.1 cu in), and a maximum speed of 45 km/h (28 mph). E.U. member countries that had not fully implemented the E.U. directive that refers to the moped and other drivers license categories had to do so by 2013 at the latest.
These fires constituted approximately 50% of the total number of oil well fires in the history of the petroleum industry, and damaged or destroyed approximately 85% of the wells in every major Kuwaiti oil field. Concerted efforts to bring the fires and other damage under control began in April 1991.
Kuwaiti oil fires. 1  Smoke plumes from a few of the Kuwaiti Oil Fires on April 7, 1991. 2  The Kuwaiti oil fires were not just limited to burning oil wells, one of which is seen here in the background, but burning oil lakes, seen in the foreground, also contributed to the smoke plumes, particularly the sootiest/blackest of them (1991).