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Boots & Coots offers the industry the world’s most experienced well control company.
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.
The experience of Boots & Coots personnel is unmatched in the industry. In response to our industry's changing needs, today we offer the most complete range of emergency response, prevention services and pressure control available.
The timeline below offers a glimpse into how deep the roots of Boots & Coots extend within the oil well industry. Beginning with the father of modern well control techniques Myron Kinley to Red Adair and finally Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews.
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 1913
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First oil well put
out with explosives by Myron Kinley and his father. |
| 1923
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Myron Kinley starts the M.M.
Kinley Company |
| 1946
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Paul "Red" Adair joins the
M.M. Kinley Company. In the years that follow, Asger "Boots"
Hansen and Edward Owen "Coots" Matthews also begin their careers
under Kinley. |
| 1959
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Red Adair forms the Red Adair
Company. Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews eventually join Adair.
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| 1961
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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
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"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. |
| 1978
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Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews
leave the Adair Company to form Boots & Coots.
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| 1991
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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. |
| 1994
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Adair retires and sells his
company to Global Industries.
The senior mangement of the Red Adair
Company leaves Global Industries and forms International
Well Control. |
| 1995
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IWC and Halliburton Energy
Services join forces to create the WellCall Alliance.
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| 1997
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International Well Control
acquires Boots & Coots, reuniting the world's most experienced
well control specialists and fire fighters.
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| 2001
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Boots & Coots begins offering prevention services. |
| 2006
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Boots & Coots enters the snubbing/hydraulic workover business with its purchase of Hydraulic Well Control from Oil States International.
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| 2007
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Boots & Coots purchase StassCo., with snubbing/hydraulic workover operations in the Rockies' Cheynne basin.
Boots & Coots opens a North Texas location.
Boots & Coots enters the pressure control rental tool business. |
| 2008
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Boots & Coots adds two North Louisiana offices.
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| 2009
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Boots & Coots purchases John Wright Company.
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HISTORY