Partners
Our Strategic Response Partners include:
- Cudd Well Control
- Moran Towing Corporation
Cudd Well Control has been a leader in well firefighting for more than a quarter of a century. From well control projects in the Americas to blowouts in remote areas across the globe, Cudd has long demonstrated their capabilities under pressure.
As one of the world’s top well firefighters, Cudd Well Control was called upon by the U.S. government to respond to oil well fires – 788 separate well fires set in Kuwait’s oil fields by the retreating Iraqi army – after Operation Desert Storm. Experts predicted that putting out the Kuwaiti oil field fires would take four to five years. As a result of Cudd’s state-of-the-art firefighting techniques and technology, the fires were extinguished within just nine months, and it was widely reported that the resulting environmental disaster, already unprecedented in scope, would have been much, much worse without Cudd’s applied expertise.
Cudd Well Control maintains an impressive store of firefighting equipment in their Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming warehouse facilities ready to be transported by air to any location on short notice.
In 1860, Moran Towing began operations in New York Harbor. 150 years later, Moran is the largest supplier of tugs and barges on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. Moran owns and operates 96 tugs and 30 barges, stationed coastwise from the North Atlantic around the Florida panhandle and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Always forward-looking, Moran has consistently invested in new technologies to ensure the efficiency and growth of their fleet. Moran maintains an ongoing program of hightech tractor tug construction and their newest vessels – especially the Z-drive tractor tugs – use state-of-the-art propulsion technology to enhance the fleet’s versatility and environmental safety. Moran operates within multiple areas of business activity: Ship docking, LNG activities, general towing; marine transportation of petroleum and dry bulk products; and contract and specialty towing. Moran maintains tugs at the following ports: Portsmouth, NH; New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Miami, and Port Arthur, TX.