Boots & Coots experience in Well Control Services truly run deep. Four of our current Senior Well Control Specialists: Raymond Henry, Danny Clayton, Richard Hatteberg, and Mike Foreman worked directly under famed well control legend, Red Adair.

Three additional Senior Well Control Specialists: Ace Barnes, James Tuppen and Bud Curtis worked under famed firefighters, Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews.

The 1997 merger of Boots & Coots and International Well Control (formed by the former Well Control Specialists of the Red Adair Company) brought together the most experienced and well-known group of well control specialists in the world. These “pioneers” in the industry form the nucleus of our well control response team.

Boots & Coots has twelve of the most experienced well control specialists in the industry, with over 300 years of combined experience. These firefighters have worked on every continent, and have achieved the best safety record and shortest response and control times in the industry.

Our experience includes some of the worlds’ most difficult well control responses including Bay Marchand (1970), North Sea- Piper Alpha (1988), Operation Desert Storm – Kuwait (1991), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003).

In 2003, Boots & Coots was selected as the well control team of choice by the U. S. Department of Defense and the Corps of Engineers for the recent Operation Iraqi Freedom and Project RIO (Restore Iraqi Oil) campaigns in Iraq. Four major blowouts were controlled and twelve additional ordinance-damaged wells were secured and returned to production.

In May, 2004, Boots & Coots was selected as the response team by Northern Iraq Oil Company (NIOC) for a large gas well blowout in the Kabbaaz Field near Kirkuk. Boots & Coots was the first service company to work directly for Iraq’s national oil company. These projects were the most demanding and dangerous well control response efforts since Desert Storm in 1991.

New technology and new techniques, but the same old dedication and experience make the difference.

The experience of our leading Well Control Specialists reads as follows:

• Raymond Henry	40 years
• Richard Hatteberg	39 years
• Ace Barnes	36 years
• Donnie Wilson	30 years
• Danny Clayton	28 years
• Terry Edwards	27 years
• Bud Curtis	25 years
• Mike Foreman	20 years
• Larry Hatcher	28 Years
• Dave Elkins	20 years
• Brad Hendrix	14 years
• Gari Stanger	13 Years
• Juan Moran	15 years