O'Brien's Response Management is the largest oil spill management company in the United States[1] 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.
[1][2] It oversaw recovery for the Murphy Oil Spill in Chalmette, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina.
[3] In July 2007, the company oversaw remediation efforts when refineries near Coffeyville, Kansas spilled 71,400 gallons of oil into the Verdigris River during a flood.
[4] The company was also responsible for managing clean-up efforts after the Cosco Busan spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker oil into the San Francisco Bay on November 7, 2007.