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HOUSTON, November 16, 2005 — Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. (Amex: WEL) announced today that it has entered into a representation agreement with West Australian-based Safety & Risk Practice Pty Ltd.  Boots & Coots will now be represented in the Austral – Japan region of Australia, New Zealand and Japan where activity in the oil and gas industry has been steadily increasing.  The agreement provides Safety & Risk Practice 24-hour access to Boots & Coots’ well control equipment and services, including pre-event risk management and engineering services.  

“Our complementary offerings provide this region with improved response times and a comprehensive range of services, and it gives us exposure to a different set of customers,” said Jerry Winchester, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boots & Coots. “We believe this partnership will benefit the growing market in Australia, New Zealand and Japan and as such is an important agreement for both parties.”

"Safety & Risk will now be able to provide clients in the region with local access to all of Boots & Coots’ main services," said Jim Embury, Managing Director of Safety & Risk Practice. “This is a very exciting development for the region’s oil, gas and mining industries, and we are proud to be partnering with the best in the business in order to provide clients in the region this unique range of services.”

About Boots & Coots

Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc., Houston, Texas, provides a suite of integrated oilfield services centered on the intervention, emergency response and restoration of blowouts and well fires as well as hydraulic workover/snubbing and hot tapping services around the world. Our current business segments are “Well Intervention” and “Response”. The Well Intervention segment consists of services that are designed to reduce the number and severity of critical well events and enhance production for oil and gas operators. The scope of these services includes training, contingency planning, well plan reviews, audits, inspection services and engineering services offered through our Safeguard programs and services offered in conjunction with our WELLSUREŽ risk management program. This segment also includes services performed by hydraulic workover and snubbing units that are used to enhance production of oil and gas wells. 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. These services include snubbing and other workover services provided during a response. For more information, visit the Company's web site at  www.boots-coots.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 www.sec.gov.