Please use our contact form for questions or comments. Remote sensing is playing an increasingly important role in oil spill response efforts 2. If you are required to have response equipment, then check out the spill kits and equipent we make. Of particular global concern is the accidental release of oil and petroleum products. Overview related components courses literature application notes support environmental quality issues are complex, challenging and often strike suddenly. Spill containment carbis solutions fall protection. Elastec offers purposebuilt oil spill response equipment for inland and offshore incidents involving a range of oil viscosities and a variety of climates from the tropics to the arctic. Solutions for oil spill response when the unthinkable happens and an oil spill occurs, you need air support at a moments notice. The devastation of the oil spill on april 20, 2010, a massive offshore drilling rig, known as the deepwater horizon, exploded and set fire. The gulf oil spill just highlights a national problem. The gel is strong enough to be collected and transported. Pdf solutions for effective oil spill management in the. Eleven people lost their lives, and approximately seventeen were injured bp oil. A complete solution for oilspill cleanup sciencedaily.
The foremost reason one cleans up an oilchemical spill is to remove the pollutants toxicity from the environment as rapidly as possible so that living organisms can survive. Solutions for stopping offshore crude oil drilling spills. We have designed a system that will stop all oil flow as in the case of the gulf oil spill in the spring of 2010. This lesson focuses on how engineers use various techniques to provide speedy solutions to oil spills or other threats to natural water resources. Pipeline oil spill solutions clean up oil spills elastec. Their solution is a polymer material that transforms an oil spill into a soft, solid oilcontaining gel. Our success is measured by our belief in nospill systems ability to meet or exceed expectations of value, quality, and service. Safety is the pipeline industrys number one priority, which is why most pipeline environmental managers prefer elastec oil spill recovery equipment. Scientists are describing what may be a complete solution to cleaning up oil spills. This course explains what an oil spill is, describes the characteristics of an oil spill, and how to identify and control hazards during the response and cleanup phases of an oil spill.
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Oil flowed from the bottom of the gulf of mexico for three months in 2010. After the spill has occured, however, it is much harder to get rid of. Oil is transported through pipelines all over the world. A call for a twentyfirst century solution in oil spill response. From 1991 to 1996, approximately 17 percent of the petroleum products transported over u. Solutions for effective oil spill management in the southeastern part of the baltic sea article pdf available in baltica 272014. Bp is sorting though 8,000 suggestions from people around the world on how to cap the well and clean up the oil.
Predict the effects of an oil spill on a marine environment. Proposed solutions to gulf bp oil spill the market. Even though it was a big spill, it was actually only a small portion less than 2 percent of what. By definition, dispersants are a substance that stabilizes the deferment of particles in this case petroleum in a liquid. An oil tanker ran aground to cause this spill of almost 11 million gallons of crude oil. A major spill is one that cannot be contained safely with the materials on the site andor threatens to enter the sewer system or travel beyond the boundaries of the work area to. President barack obama, carnegie mellon university, june 2, 2010 the oil spill from the deepwater horizon has caused enormous economic and ecological.
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