AFTI: The Permanent Boom Specialists

When an oil spill containment boom must be in the water all of the time, quality, durability, maintainability, and system design are more important than purchase price when determining life cycle cost. Let us put our experience, gained on more than 400 successful installations over the last twenty years, to work for you. OILFENCE™ and GlobeBoom® can be tailored, together with our wide array of installation hardware and accessories, into practical, cost effective systems which will survive the environment and work for years to come. For your response needs, the same high standards of quality are applied to our PyroBoom®, contractor boom, skimmers, dispersant delivery equipment and remote sensing systems.

The oil spill industry has been perceived as one that changes only slowly. This might be because of the long interval between events, which precipitate major changes in equipment, techniques, and public policy. The Torrey Canyon in 1967, Amoco Cadiz in 1978, and Exxon Valdez in 1989 - each in March, 11 years apart and all classed as major incidents - were substantial watershed events that were largely responsible for creating heightened awareness and renewed interest in improving oil spill management.

The fact remains though that things do not stop between incidents. They just seem to take place at a different pace. The industry continues to press on with the knowledge that some new event will take place to stimulate change somewhere in the world. Each state, country, and region has had, or will have, some event that will maintain interest in protecting itself against oil spills.

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