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Boots & Coots is a well control company and has international offices throughout the globe within Halliburton. It was founded in 1978 by Asger "Boots" Hansen, Jr. (May 29, 1926 – June 16, 2019) [1] and Edward O. "Coots" Matthews (April 23, 1923 – March 31, 2010), [2] veterans of the Red Adair Service and Marine Company.
But the days of independence have come to an end for Boots & Coots as the company has agreed to sell out to Halliburton for $240.4 million. Shareholders will get $1.73 in cash and $1.27 in ...
In 1978, Adair's top lieutenants Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews left to found a competitor company, Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc. In 1988, Adair helped to extinguish the UK sector Piper Alpha oil platform fire in the North Sea.
The burning well was finally capped 67 days later by the Texas well-control company Boots & Coots. One of the most troublesome gushers happened on 23 June 1985, at well #37 at the Tengiz field in Atyrau , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union , where the 4,209-metre deep well blew out and the 200-metre high gusher self-ignited two days later.
The oil giant was hired by Southern California Gas Co. to end the blowout. It couldn't get the job done.
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As of October 16, 2003, KBR had performed nearly $1.6 billion worth of work. In the meantime, KBR has subcontracted with two companies to work on the project: Boots & Coots, an oil field emergency response firm that Halliburton works in partnership with (CEO Jerry L. Winchester was a former Halliburton manager) and Wild Well Control. Both firms ...
Boots & Coots; S. Schlumberger; W. Wild Well Control This page was last edited on 4 August 2016, at 13:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...