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  2. Boots & Coots - Wikipedia

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    Boots & Coots. Boots & Coots was a well control company. It was founded in 1978 by Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews, [1] veterans of the Red Adair Service and Marine Company. The two companies extinguished approximately one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers in the Gulf War.

  3. Richard Halliburton - Wikipedia

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    lecturer. Period. 1925–1938. Subject. Travel literature, adventure, exploration. Signature. Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history—36 cents in 1928. [1]

  4. Cameron International - Wikipedia

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    Cameron International Corporation (formerly Cooper Cameron Corporation (CCC) and Cooper Oil Tool, Cameron Iron Works) though now operating under Schlumberger, is a global provider of pressure control, production, processing, and flow control systems as well as project management and aftermarket services for the oil and gas and process ...

  5. USS Halyburton - Wikipedia

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    USS Halyburton (FFG-40), an Oliver Hazard Perry -class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named for Pharmacist's Mate Second Class William D. Halyburton Jr. (1924–1945). Halyburton was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism while serving with the 5th Marines, during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

  6. Jeff Miller (American businessman) - Wikipedia

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    Miller moved to Halliburton in 1997. During his early years at Halliburton, Miller worked in oil field operations in Venezuela, Angola, Indonesia, and Dubai. He moved to Houston in 2010 to assume executive roles in the company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer.

  7. Winross Models - Wikipedia

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    Winross is a diecast model truck producer based in Churchville, New York, just west of Rochester. The company was started in 1963 to make models of White brand trucks. Winross was the pioneer in 1/64 scale promotional model semi-tractor-trailer trucks. [1] The trucks were known for their wide variety of logos and promotional ads on their sides.

  8. Geophysical Service - Wikipedia

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    Geophysical Service Inc. Founded. 1930. Headquarters. Dallas, Texas, U.S. Website. www .geophysicalservice .com. Geophysical Service Inc. (often abbreviated GSI) was a Texas-based company founded by John Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott in 1930, [1] for the purpose of using refraction and reflection seismology to explore for petroleum ...

  9. Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd - Wikipedia

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    31. The appellant's business was based in Great Britain. It was to provide tools, services and personnel to the oil industry. That was why it sent the respondent to Libya, even though the actual work itself was in the furtherance of the business of another Halliburton subsidiary or associate company: see the employment tribunal's judgment, para 53.