The team’s study in Croatia will also help the U.S. and Oklahoma. In its final report, the team will recommend the updates that should be made to Croatia’s system, including the companies that would be good for the job.

“My guess is we’ll recommend what we know best, which is U.S. technology,” Crawford said.

The OWPP certainly seems to know its stuff. The office was created about 18 months ago, and this is the first project to be funded. The team seemed excited at the prospects it opened up.

Since beginning work with Croatia, the OWPP has been approached by Morocco and the Philippines to do similar studies, Snow said.

“Certainly we hope that this is the first of many such projects and our goal in all of this is to use the skills and knowledge we have here on sort of the international scene,” he said.