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Highway oil spill clean ups
Highway oil spill clean ups. Companies equipped to clean up spills on the roadway and companies that leak oil on the road ways are using Oil Solutions liquid Step 1 & step 2 to clean oil stains, sheen, oil residue. Any company that owns trucks or equipment most likely use Hydraulic oil and diesel fuel. These fuels sometimes leak and leave nasty oil stains. Mistakes people make trying to clean ...
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Enterprise Crude Pipeline Fined for Oil Spill in Scurry County, Texas
The Environmental Protection Agency has fined Enterprise Crude Pipeline of Houston, Texas, $5,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act. Today’s announcement settles a Clean Water Act violation for a 4,200 gallon oil spill into Bull Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River, and adjoining shorelines in Scurry County, Texas. As part of an Expedited Settlement with the EPA, the company has ...
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Potential long-term health impacts for oil spill clean-up workers
A new study of clean-up workers seven years after the 2002 Prestige oil tanker spillage has found potential evidence for long-term impacts on their hormonal and immune systems as a result of exposure to the oil. The results suggest new health surveillance measures may be appropriate for workers involved in future oil clean-up operations. In November 2002, the oil tanker Prestige ran into trouble ...
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Potential long-term health impacts for oil spill clean-up workers
A new study of clean-up workers seven years after the 2002 Prestige oil tanker spillage has found potential evidence for long-term impacts on their hormonal and immune systems as a result of exposure to the oil. The results suggest new health surveillance measures may be appropriate for workers involved in future oil clean-up operations. In November 2002, the oil tanker Prestige ran into trouble ...
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Oil Spill Emulsification Predictions
Predicting facets of oil behavior is an essential component of understanding the nature of a particular oil spill. One such behavior is emulsification, when oil picks up water and retains it for a period of time. A proposed new ASTM standard, WK41247, Test Method for the Evaluation of the Stability of Water-in-Oil Mixtures Formed from Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Mixed with Saline Water, will ...
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GuLF STUDY Update: Four Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Media teleconference April 11 with lead scientist
What: Telephone press conference for reporters. Scientists from NIEHS will discuss the Gulf Long-Term Follow-up Study (GuLF STUDY), and what they have learned to date about the 33,000 oil spill clean-up workers and volunteers enrolled in the study. They will provide information on the status of collecting and analyzing the data, and future plans. In addition, they will present some preliminary ...
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Jury at Wendy Schmidt oil cleanup X challenge nominates winner
Close to 400 companies entered the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, and from these entries the judging panel selected Lamor as one of the top ten finalists. On October 11, the results of the rigorous testing procedures at Ohmsett were publicized and award ceremonies took place in New York. Lamor placed sixth when overall data was compiled, Team Elastec won the grand purse of US$1 million ...
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Hazwoper Training Comes to Cary, NC
June 7, 2010 – Due to the unprecedented extent of the Gulf Coast oil spill, the need for industry professionals with Hazwoper training is steadily growing. OSHA requires Hazwoper training for any personnel that participate in the oil spill clean-up operations. Personnel who are expected to stop, contain, and clean up releases of all types of hazardous materials are required to have 24 ...
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Last chance to enroll in NIH oil spill health study
WHAT: Media Teleconference: “NIH Oil Spill Health Study Makes Final Call for Volunteers - Update on Progress of Long-term Health Study” – Over the last 18 months, the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has been recruiting participants for the GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long Term Follow-up Study), which is examining the potential health effects associated with ...
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Oil spills could be cleaned up by bacteria from underground petroleum reserves
Bacteria taken from underground petroleum reserves could be used to effectively break down crude oil from spills at sea, new research has found. The study measured the breakdown of crude oil components in simulated seawater by four bacterial strains that had been isolated from petroleum reservoirs, as well as by four genetically modified stains. The findings raise the possibility of tailor-making ...
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Cotton Is King: Dynamic Adsorbents, Inc. Develops Superior Cotton Based Solution for Removing Oil from the Gulf of Mexico Waters
DAI develops a unique cotton-based adsorbent product that increases the sorption capacity by as much as two and a half times, propelling the adsorbency power to 100 grams per gram of cotton fiber. This new technology is ideal for adsorbing the crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, the material has the capacity to remove fumes and noxious airborne particulate materials that have caused ...
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Encouraging bacteria to clean up oil spills
Catastrophic accidents account for 9 per cent of the oil released into marine environments. Several disasters, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez in Alaska, and the Prestige incident, off northern Spain in 2002, have seen the use of 'bioremediation' as part of the clean-up operation. Recent work has investigated combinations of natural additives to increase the speed and efficiency of ...
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Using microbes to clean up oil spills
Original story at MIT News Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology, likes to wax poetic about the complex chemistry of microbes. "I think they’re elegant and beautiful," she says. Of course, she also sees their practical applications. "I love the fact that these microbes can be used for bioremediation in hard-to-reach polluted spots," she says. "Normally, cleaning these ...
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Pennsylvania Company to pay $25,347 penalty for inadequate oil spill prevention at Harrisville, Pa. facility
In a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heath Oil, Inc., headquartered in Franklin, Pa., has agreed to pay a $25, 347 penalty for alleged violations of oil spill prevention regulations at an oil storage facility located at 5609 State Route 8 in Harrisville, Pa. Under the Clean Water Act, all owners of oil storage facilities must develop and implement a spill prevention, ...
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Geomares launches website on Marine spills and pollution
Geomares Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Spill International, the international website and newsletter on the prevention, preparedness for, response to and restoration of marine spills and pollution, www.spill-international.com. Spill International provides international experts with information on recent events, developments in the industry and significant research projects. It ...
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New Oil Spill Response Partnership in Uganda
New partnership between DESMI and waste management firm Epsilon Ltd. ready to reduce potential devastating oil spillage in Uganda. The partnership was officially launched in October at the residence of the Danish Ambassador in Uganda, Mogens Pedersen with participation of representatives from both the private and public sector of Uganda. At the event, The Danish ambassador described Danish ...
By DESMI A/S
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Clean Up that Oily Mess with Eatoils BT200
Here is a report from one of our happy customers - Clean and Green Solutions in the Houston, Texas area - Doug Rucker. Good morning Charles, attached you will find some pictures of an oil spill we recently cleaned up in a parking lot using BT200(TM). The oily area was approx. 6000 sq. ft. in total size. On arrival we used the BT200(TM) at 5:1, agitated with a stiff broom, and then pressure ...
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Scientists develop new tool to assess oil spills
Scientists are getting an entirely new perspective of what happens to oil in a spill, thanks to a tool developed by FIU researchers. Little is known about the chemical make-up of oil and how it acts when it mixes with seawater or sunlight during a spill. But by combining techniques to create one powerful instrument, a team from FIU's Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment can see how the ...
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Iranian fungi show promise in cleaning up oil spills
Iranian scientists have isolated local strains of fungi that can digest petroleum compounds and may be useful in cleaning up polluted sites, especially in similar, semi-arid areas. The researchers isolated fungal strains from oil-contaminated sites within the Arak refinery in Iran and found some of them to cut the amount of petroleum pollution in soil by more than half. Although bioremediation ...
By SciDev.Net
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Crews clean up oil spill in Texas shipping channel
Cannon booms reverberate across the Houston Ship Channel, a scare-tactic to keep birds away from oil-slicked beaches. On a mainland shore near a line of refineries, crews scour the sand for quarter-sized tar balls that have washed ashore. Far on the horizon a few ships floated outside the channel, among the dozens of vessels waiting for the U.S. Coast Guard to reopen one of the nation's busiest ...
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