NEWS - August 11, 2004


    
  LONGTIME WELL CONTROL VETERAN REJOINS BOOTS & COOTS

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VOLLMER
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Strategic Growth International
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Major Addition to the Company’s Core Response Team

HOUSTON, (August 11, 2004) — Boots & Coots announced today that Richard Hatteberg, Senior Well Control Specialist, has rejoined the experienced staff of Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. Hatteberg, with over 40 years of well control experience, was an original member of the Red Adair group and a charter member of Boots & Coots.

"We are extremely excited that Richard has rejoined our team,” said Danny Clayton, Director of Well Control Operations. “He has performed well control services in virtually every oil and gas field in the world. The experience and resources Richard brings to us cannot be matched."

Mr. Hatteberg played an instrumental role in creating Boots & Coots’ worldwide reputation and tradition. After starting with Myron Kinley in 1955, Mr. Hatteberg became an original member of the Red Adair Company. The Boots & Coots Well Control Firefighting and Engineering staff has combined experience of more than 350 years, ranging from well control to drilling engineering. The Boots & Coots team is the internationally recognized leader in Well Control Services, backed by experiences with Piper Alpha, Kuwait, Iraq and many of the world’s most challenging events.


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About Boots & Coots

Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc., Houston, Texas, provides a suite of integrated oilfield services centered on the prevention, emergency response and restoration of blowouts and well fires around the world. Boots & Coots' proprietary risk management program, WELLSURE®, combines traditional well control insurance with post-event response as well as preventative services, giving oil and gas operators and insurance underwriters a medium for effective management of well control insurance policies. The Company's SafeGuard program, developed for regional producers and operators sponsored by Boots & Coots, provides dedicated emergency response services, risk assessment and contingency planning, and continuous training and education in all aspects of critical well management. For more information, visit the Company's web site at http://www.bootsandcoots.com .

Certain statements included in this news release are intended as "forward- looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Boots & Coots cautions that actual future results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. More information about the risks and uncertainties relating to these forward- looking statements are found in Boots & Coots' SEC filings, which are available free of charge on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov.

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