Sorry, my bad....
But it looks like Boots and Coots has the subcontract from Halliburton:
As recently as mid-February, the company acknowledged that creditors were pressuring it to file for bankruptcy, but its fortunes seemed to take a positive swing on March 6, when the Pentagon announced that it had a plan for fighting oil-well fires. Its plan was drafted by a unit of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former employer, which has an agreement to subcontract oil-well firefighting to Boots & Coots.
But its fortunes looked bleak again when, contrary to many expectations, the first days of the war produced only a relative handful of fires, compared with more than 700 in 1991. Danny Clayton, the operations manager of Boots & Coots, said on Monday that he was surprised that relatively few oil-well fires had started in Iraq so far.
"It's as easy to destroy 90 wells as it is to destroy nine," said Clayton, who ran the company's oil-well firefighting operations in Kuwait after the 1991 war. "But there's still a good chance. They have several more oil fields, and I'm sure that they are not all secured yet."
Perverse as it may sound, then, the company's fortunes -- indeed, its very existence -- seem to depend on a good many Iraqi oil wells being put to the torch.
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