O'Brien 's Response Management is the largest oil spill management company in the United States Company founder Jim O'Brien fought his first oil spill in 1969 as an officer with the United States Coast Guard . In 1983 he retired to form his own company , O'Brien 's Oil Pollution Service , known as " OOPS Inc. " , in Slidell , Louisiana . O'Brien soon gained fame in the 1980s as the " Red Adair of oil spill cleanup " . O'Brien also helped manage the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 . Following that event the United States enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 , requiring ships to carry sufficient insurance and hire a management company to handle any oil spill
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Exxon Valdez oil spill
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