Boots & Coots experience in Well Control Services truly run deep. Four of our current Senior Well Control Specialists worked directly under famed well control legend, Red Adair.

Three additional Senior Well Control Specialists 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 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.

With the nature of petroleum exploration and production, seldom is any one emergency similar to another. However, with the industry's most experienced personnel, Boots & Coots is uniquely qualified to assist our clients and prepare effective and cost efficient emergency preparation plans.

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