Business View Magazine | January 2020

126 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 recalls, “My equipment is a fraction of the size of other oil vacuum systems. When the oil spill happened, I immediately knew that I could load vacuum boxes on barges. So I sent the governor an email and because I wasn’t on the proper list, I wasn’t responded to. But then somebody at the governor’s office had the bright idea of using vacuum equipment on barges to load (my idea). So they started bringing in other people, but all their equipment was too big. Then, they asked us to come. The oil was going into the marsh where it was shallow, and our equipment could fit on the shallow-water barges. At the peak, there were 450 ‘vessels of opportunity,’ as they were called. And our 16 barges working with the governor and the Louisiana National Guard picked up half of the recovered oil. So there was a lot of notoriety from that. Some of the oil had paraffin in it and it was getting stuck in the barges. And one of the only pumps that would work on this was a machine called a Kraken, which I had a patent on. So we also had a lot of success from that.” Triton machines are well-known for requiring very little maintenance, which is important in the oil and gas sector because of the often remote locations. The company’s clientele includes all the major players. Right from the beginning, Haliburton, Exxon, Shell, and Amoco have been the firm’s bread and butter and the focus was on making them happy. Triton specialized in long-term rental; pricing the equipment at an attractive rate that made sense to keep it. Instead of having to schedule a vacuum truck, it was worthwhile to have it, onsite - a great cost saving tool. Triton machines are very simple to run and the customer supplies the service personnel. When the machine is delivered, laborers on the jobsite are trained by the