The Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre Pty Ltd (AMOSC) operates the Australian oil industry’s major oil spill response facility. AMOSC’s stockpile of oil spill response equipment includes oil spill dispersant and containment, recovery, cleaning, absorbent and communications equipment. Equally important is AMOSC’s role in training and coordinating industry personnel ready to provide immediate emergency oil spill response. AMOSC was established in 1991 as a not-for-profit subsidiary company of the Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP), primarily as a combined industry response to the Exxon Valdez incident that occurred in Alaska in 1989. This incident pre-empted the introduction of an International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC) in 1990.