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Boots & Coots Profile

Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc Houston, Tx., AMEX : WEL, The world’s most experienced well control company.

A suite of integrated pressure control services to onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration companies around the world. The Well Intervention segment consists of services that are designed to enhance production for oil and gas operators and reduce the number and severity of critical well events such as well fires, blowouts or other losses of control at the well.

This segment includes services performed by hydraulic workover and snubbing units and the rental of pressure control tools that are used to enhance production at the wells.

The scope of these services also includes prevention services such as training, contingency planning, well plan reviews, audits, inspection services and engineering services offered through our Safeguard risk management programs.

The Response segment consists of personnel, equipment and services provided during an emergency response such as a critical well event or a hazardous material response.

Boots & Coots is the pressure control expert, in the oil and gas industry.

Most of our personnel trained and worked under well control pioneers, Red Adair, Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews. Boots & Coots has carried on the tradition as the premier well control and emergency response company in the world

Snubbing/Hydraulic Workover
Our hydraulic workover/snubbing specialists are the most skilled in the industry and our approach provides the most flexible means of repairing, re-entering or completing a well—without having to kill it by using overbalanced fluids that can damage sensitive formations.

We manufacture much of our own equipment, resulting in a faster, fit-for-purpose deliverable. Our stand-alone units are modular, so they can be moved by truck or a single boatload and hoisted by existing cranes in offshore environments. For faster, more economical workovers under live well conditions, our truck-mounted hydraulic rig-assist units provide for quick and easy rig-ups.

Pressure Control Rental Tools
As natural gas reserves become more complex, you can depend on our pressure control rental tools for safer and more efficient production. High-pressure situations require equipment that operates flawlessly. For well control, snubbing and production cleanup, we offer rental equipment that meets our tough standards and the high-pressure, high-temperature requirements for deep wells and unconventional gas plays. Our trained and experienced service personnel are on hand to assemble, operate and maintain the equipment for safety and reliability as you complete your project.

Prevention
Identification of risks associated with any business, and the management of those risks, are important aspects of business management in today’s competitive world. It is even more relevant when we talk about the oil and gas exploration and production field.

Our Safeguard risk prevention services are customized based on your needs. These may include training, risk analysis, contingency planning, audit programs, deepwater application and well inspections, as well as blowout prevention and control counsel or assistance in addressing identified risks. With Safeguard, you can reduce the likelihood and consequences of accidents and ensure the integrity of your facilities, improve productivity and protect your assets, your employees and the public.

Response
Whether it’s a blowout or a complex pressure control problem, your call to Boots & Coots will be answered by the most highly capable group of well control specialists and engineers in the world. Our senior specialists have been in the business for over 30 years and have the distinction of handling the industry’s most complex blowouts and well fires in history. From the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter to Piper Alpha and Iraq to Nigeria, our company specialists have a perfect record of safely capping and killing wells out of control. We know every job is important, and we are ready to “suit up and show up” wherever and whenever we are needed.

Well control pioneers, Red Adair, Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews History Notes

1961

Red Adair and his crew control the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" in Gassi Touil, Algeria, landing Adair on the cover of Life and elevating him to "hero" status

1968

"Hellfighters", starring John Wayne, is released in the United States. Adair acts as technical advisor to the film and becomes a lifelong friend of John Wayne.

1991

Iraqi solders ignite more than 700 oil wells as they retreat in defeat at the close of the Persian Gulf War. Over 30% of the fires are controlled by specialists from the Red Adair Company (who later formed International Well Control [IWC]) and Boots & Coots.

2008

Boots & Coots adds two North Louisiana offices

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