The Global Response Network is a coalition of major oil spill response companies operating throughout the world. GRN members are distinguished from other commercial spill response organizations by the fact that they receive their funding from their members or customers through some type of cost sharing formula and not separate contracts more directly associated with for-profit organizations. Members of the GRN provide their direct spill response services to their members/customers and the GRN is not a mechanism whereby a spiller can call on one GRN member and have direct access to the equipment and personnel of another GRN member.