The other type is used to recover or capture oil in a usable state. Typically, this second type of skimmer is used to clean up oil spills in factories, refineries, and bodies of water. Applications ...

using skimmers brought in from around the world, were picking up 15,000 barrels. Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with the Exxon Valdez spill, had proved more effective.

At least 102 species of birds are known to have been harmed by the BP oil spill, including black skimmers, brown pelicans, clapper rails, common loons, laughing gulls, northern gannets and several ...

The oil spill will be handled both at sea and on the shoreline. Vessels will be deployed to tow oil booms and use oil skimmers, and a shoreline response will be organized and personnel and ...

Oil recovery by skimmers and vacuum pumps can be very effective, early in the spill. Very little of this viscous oil is likely to disperse into the water column. Shoreline cleanup can be very ...

An estimated 5 tonnes of oil were reportedly spilt; the Malaysian authorities were also alerted. Read more at ...

MPA also tested new technologies which could support oil spill response ... areas that are not easily accessible by conventional oil skimmers. The laser cleaning device from BKR Engineering ...

The company's product lines are not limited to oil spill clean-up; they also feature high temperature industrial fabrics and conveyor belting, dispersants and application equipment, skimmers ...

Braer: The huge oil spill that Shetland survived Warning on ... booms to limit the spread of pollutant and equipment known as skimmers to suck it up, as well as storage equipment to hold it ...

The oil spill on June 14 was caused by an allision ... which are not easily accessible by conventional oil skimmers. Join ST's WhatsApp Channel and get the latest news and must-reads.

An oil spill, caused during cyclone Michaung in ... government to intensify mitigation efforts by deploying more booms, skimmers, and trained manpower. It has been over 10 days since the spill ...

SINGAPORE: An oil spill took place off Changi on Monday (Oct 28) during a bunkering operation between a Bahamas-flagged bulk ...