Offshore and Coastal Oil Spills
Traditional oil spills remediation has been a primitive exercise in contrast to our Prevention Solutions (restricting the flow of oil at source), Recovery Solutions (oil and Solidifier® recovered for reuse), Environmental Solutions (non-toxic and captures heavy metals) and Economic Solutions (time and cost reduction > 50%). This has been due to the lack of an available technology.
The point is that pollutants cannot simply be ignored - oil and other hydro carbon derivative liquid spills (”oil spills”) demand actual removal of the hydro carbon and heavy metals it contains (”pollutants”) from the environment of the spill, whether offshore or onshore. It is not enough that the pollutants are no longer obvious to the naked eye. Historical methods of oil spill remediation have been dangerously laborious with exposure of workers to deadly toxic fumes and in the end wholly unable to remove the pollutants from the environment. The handling of oil spills has involved application of toxic chemicals in attempts to thin and disperse the pollutant with scant regard for damage to life in the area - birds, mammals and fish stocks. Similar to the unbridled Gas Flaring of petrochemical plants, the burning of oil on the open sea out of view is another barbaric method of disposal of oil spills emitting tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution into the atmosphere and accelerating climate change.
