Boots & Coots IWC to provide well control services for Shell Group

Boots & Coots International Well Control has signed a Framework Agreement with Shell International Exploration and Production BV to provide well control services for the Shell Group.
The agreement covers contingency planning, prevention services and training drills for all of Shell's rigs and platforms world-wide, in addition to environmental clean-up, well control and production restoration operations necessary in the event of a well blow-out.
"We are proud that Shell chose to enter into this important contract with Boots & Coots IWC. This contract validates the approach we've taken to the delivery of emergency response services," said Brian Krause, president of Boots & Coots IWC.
"Our main focus is on preventing catastrophes," he said. "And in the worst case scenario, we can provide the world's most experienced team of well control specialists."
Since the personnel from Boots & Coots were joined with those from International Well Control last summer, the resulting company hasemployed the vast majority of the most senior well control specialists that remain active today.

Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc., based in Houston, is a global emergency response company that specialises, through its well control unit, in responding to and controlling oilfield emergencies, including oil and gas well blowouts and well fires, as well as providing a complete menu of non-critical well control services through its well control alliance with Halliburton.