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Boots & Coots
History
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| Blowout prevention, preparation and control
are fundamental, day to day activities for Boots & Coots. The timeline below offers a glimpse into how deep the roots of Boots & Coots extend within the oil well firefighting and blowout control industry. Beginning with the father of modern well control techniques Myron Kinley to Red Adair and finally Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews. Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. are the pioneers of oil well fire fighting and the most experienced blowout specialists.  |
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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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
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| 1995
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| IWC and Halliburton Energy Services join forces to create the WellCall Alliance. | |
| 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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