Behind the Scenes of An Explosive Photo Shoot

In the era of Photoshopped everything, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the picture of an exploding oil tower that topped our story about Iraqi Kurdish oil fortunes was a digital rendering. But as you'll see from this video, Fast Company hired a pyrotechnics crew in Texas to explode the real thing.

There is an estimated 60 billion barrels of crude lying beneath Iraqi Kurdistan, and tens of billions more in the disputed oil fields around Kirkuk. But the rush to tap these reserves is...