06-01-2014

Total Safety acquires leading flare services company

Leading international safety solutions provider Total Safety today announced it has acquired Flare Ignitors Holdings, owner of both Flare Ignitors & Rentals and Flare Ignitors Pipeline & Refinery. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Flare Ignitors has the deepest bench of trained service personnel backed by the largest rental fleet of tailored skid and trailer mounted flares in the industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Flare Ignitors, founded in 1991, custom fabricates and sells flares while also providing a full  suite of flare services including  all upstream on shore and offshore flare needs, pipeline blow downs and pipeline flaring, temporary and permanent flare systems for refineries and pipeline facilities, flare stack maintenance and inspection, and flare tip retrofits and specialty ignition systems.

“Flare Ignitors is an excellent fit for our integrated safety solutions portfolio,” said Total Safety CEO Troy Thacker. “We take personal pride in our commitment to the wellbeing of workers by providing the most comprehensive safety support anywhere in the world in the oil and gas, refinery, chemical, petrochemical, power generation, mining and industrial markets. Flare Ignitors enables us to further that commitment to our clients.”

The integrated Total Safety Flare Services group is capable of flaring and monitoring almost any type of gas product at a 99% destruction rate while maintaining smokeless flaring. It meets flare stack and flare ignition requirements with quality engineering and state of the art system  design. In addition, its manufacturing and test facilities meet exact specifications and requirements for rental or sales.

“We are extremely pleased to incorporate our expertise and experience into Total Safety,” said Cameron Sherwin, CEO of Flare Ignitors." The ability to offer our customers access to flare specialists 24 hours a day is one more way we can, as a combined team, be prepared to provide true turnkey safety support.