Oil Booms News
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Fracking 2021: The State of the Post-Covid Oil and Gas Industry
April 20, 2020 is a day which will forever live in infamy for the oil and gas industry. On that day, the price of West Texas Intermediate fell to an unfathomable negative $36.98 per barrel, the first time it had ever gone below zero. It was the nadir of an industry crisis triggered by the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just one month before, the demand for oil had evaporated as cities ...
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Oil Stop Division of AMPOL offers material upgrade options to its Inflatable Auto Boom oil spill containment boom
Oil Stop’s Auto Boom, the first patented single point inflation oil spill containment boom, is now recommended to be manufactured using36 oz./yd2 (1220 gm/m2) polyurethane coated polyester material. The36 oz. material provides 25% more thickness over the original Auto Boom material. This affords better seal strength, higher abrasion resistance, and more puncture resistance. In addition, ...
By AMPOL
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Oil Stop Aids California Firefighting Effort
In August 2020 the Oil Stop Division of AMPOL shipped its new model SFB18TT containment boom to California to aid the firefighting effort. One of the tools commonly used in fighting forest fires is “Bambi” buckets under-slung from helicopters. The helicopter crew will use local rivers as a water source to scoop up water and deploy it to the fire ...
By AMPOL
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AMPOL Manufactures & Lays Down the Boom!
AMPOL manufactured Silt Curtain through its wholly owned subsidiary “Oil Stop”. We then transported the silt curtain and mobilized a crew and boats to deploy and maintain the silt curtain during the dredging process in South Florida. This project just happens to be in our wheel house, as AMPOL not only manufactures the silt curtain, but deploys and maintains it as well. We expect to ...
By AMPOL
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Lamor Corporation Acquires License for Rapid Response HARBO Boom
Lamor Corporation is pleased to announce the acquisition of the licensing rights to HARBO Technologies’ product line. Their rapid response oil spill solutions will be a great addition to an already strong response product and solution portfolio. HARBO has developed the lightest oil spill response boom on the market. The modular system fits in a simple box which can be quickly deployed by ...
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Roller Die Helps the Logistics Industry Grow
The logistics industry is seeing unprecedented growth as people chose to order from their homes items they previously sourced from stores. From delivery trucks to increased distribution facilities, people staying and working from home are taking advantage of services that allow them to stay safe and socially distance while still enjoying the meals, goods, and lifestyle they were accustomed to ...
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Lamor cleans up environmental incidents in Latin America despite COVID-19 challenges
8 April 2020 - Oil Spill in Ecuador, the Coca and Napo rivers. On April 8th, Corena, a Lamor Group company, received a call to assist with oil spills in eastern Ecuador from three major pipelines, broken due to landslides in the area. As one of the three companies coordinating the response actions, Lamor was given the responsibility of a 118 kilometre-long part of the contaminated area. In ...
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APTIVATOR™: A New Development in Water Treatment
What is APTIVATOR™? Here at APT, it’s no secret that we’re all about peat. For the past 17 years, we’ve worked hard to unlock the power of peat through the manufacture of value-added products made from this abundant natural resource. Peat is a slowly self-renewing and valuable natural resource with untapped potential, and we are committed to stewarding its use through the ...
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Romania receives new oil recovery vessel
From the beautiful blue Danube to the dynamic Black Sea, Romania has some of the world’s most precious marine environments. They are serious about keeping their marine ecosystems clean and recently took delivery of a new anti-pollution vessel with Lamor’s oil recovery ...
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Floating Sargassum barriers
Over the last few years, beachgoers have been faced with the awful sights and smell of stinking seaweed washing up on the shorelines. Conditions have been perfect for the massive growth of Sargassum, the aquatic vegetation that continues to pile up on beaches throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The staffs at resorts and hotels work tirelessly to keep their beaches clean and attractive ...
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Spill boom deployment around a capsized ship
Ship wrecks are an unfortunate reality in the ever expanding global marketplace. Weather, inexperienced or inattentive crews, and equipment failures can all be contributing factors. When ships do sink, capsize, or run aground, and immediate concern is the likliehood of the escape of oil, fuel, and other hydrocarbons that can have a negative impact on the environment. The damage that can be ...
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Silt curtains for storm drain runoff
Turbidity curtains, also referred to as silt curtains, offer a means to keep suspended particles from vacating the immediate area in a body of water. The curtains hang from floats down into the water and impede the flow of the turbidity or silt. Over time, the suspended sediment settles back to the bottom. These floating curtains can be made from solid fabrics that impede all flow of water, or ...
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Water Hyacinth removal project
Cattail Marsh is a 900 acre wildlife area located in Beaumont, Texas. This marsh is located adjacent to Tyrrell Park and serves as a component of the waste water filtration system for the city. The marsh features a 520 foot boardwalk that was installed in 2016 at a cost of $285,000. Cattail Marsh and the surrounding area support a wide variety of local wildlife and is a popular bird watching ...
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Boating near dredging projects
Every day there are countless ongoing dredging and marine construction projects ongoing across the United States. These marine projects are driven by the need for repairs, development, and shoaling. These work zones typically require equipment and operations to be ongoing in waterways that are normally navigated by boat traffic. As these projects are executed, safety hazards can often arise ...
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HPP Acquires Hydreo
HYDREO designs, manufactures and installs hydromechanical equipment worldwide (gates, trash racks cleaner, trash racks screens, log boom, flap gates, valves, stoplogs etc….). The 48 000 sq ft factory is at less than an hour ride from HPP’s office, in France (1.5 hours east from Paris). « The objective of the takeover is simple: create the french hydro major player with ...
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Texas Boom Company Joins SCAA
Texas Boom Company is proud to join many other leading companies and organizations involved in the spill response industry who are active participants in the Spil Control Association of America (SCAA). We join this group as a means to further contribute with oil spill response, and TBC is eager to engage in the positive work of the SCAA. As a manufacturer of oil spill containment boom and ...
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How to connect sections of oil containment boom - video
Most manufacturers of oil containment boom in the US utilize ASTM F962-94 aluminum connectors at both ends of the boom. These universal Z connector bars allow sections of boom from any manufacturer to be used together to form longer sections of deployed containment boom. In the event that the pin holes don't line up across boom makers, additional holes can quickly be drilled through the ...
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Being a Texas Boom customer puts you in good company
When you purchase products from Texas Boom Company, you are joining good company. Our company has a history of delivering a wide range of quality products at competitive prices to many recognizable organizations. Texas Boom's track record includes sales to the US and foreign governments (including GSA contracts), spill response organizations, as well as global leaders in the energy and chemical ...
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Floating oil boom
There are two major categories of floating oil boom: Absorbent Floating Oil Boom and Non-Absorbent Floating Oil Boom. Both serve a specific purpose, and they can be used in tandem to help contain oil spills in bodies of water such as oceans, gulfs, bays, rivers, streams, lakes, canals, and ponds. Absorbent Floating Oil Boom is comprised of a mesh sock or tube filled with polypropylene. The ...
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Made in USA - Oil Containment Boom, Silt Curtains, Tanks, Berms
As the year comes to an end, everyone at Texas Boom Company is proud of the work done at our manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. Texas Boom is a manufacturer of top quality oil containment boom, silt curtains, pillow tanks and bladders, containment berms, and many other products that leverage our RF welding capability. We place an emphasis on quality, provide short lead times, offer the ...
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