About flemingCo
flemingCo environmental was founded in 1997 by Flemming Hvidbak who has
24 years of experience within the oil spill
industry. He has been active in oil spill clean-up operations, both off- and
on-shore and has carried out numerous oil spill response training courses in
five continents. He has developed several types of oil spill response
equipment, which have
been incorporated into the oil spill contingencies of more than 100
countries. He
has planned, conducted, or participated in tests of oil spill response
equipment for DESMI, for Bitor America Corporation, for LAMOR, at OHMSETT, with GPC/US
Navy/US Coast Guard, and with the Canadian Coast Guard/SAIC. He has
spearheaded the development of the new extreme viscosity oil pumping
techniques, based on annulus ring steam or hot water injection on the inlet
side of the transfer pump. He served as Lead Engineer for the Joint Viscous
Oil Pumping System workshop and test in Houma, Louisiana December 2003. This
was the largest and most costly test ever within the oil spill community and
involved over 100 people from seven nations. Flemming holds a B.S.
in mechanical engineering and management along with a marine engineer
education.
flemingCo drags in associated independent oil spill response experts from
case to case.
flemingCo environmental is committed to contribute to
the global environment by offering equipment and process design, as well as
engineering and consulting services to the oil spill market on a commercial
basis.
flemingCo environmental is the operator of
the International Oil Spill Resource and Information Center at www.oil-spill-web.com
Flemming Hvidbak at DESMI 1984
- 97
From 1984 to 1997 Flemming Hvidbak was in charge of the design of DESMIs
range of oil spill equipment, among which especially the high viscosity
off-loading pump DOP-250, the DESMI-250 and the DESMI-TERMINATOR vertical
Archimedes screw skimmers, and the DESMI Mini-Max, have been distributed
to - and well recognized by - the oil spill industry World wide. He has been
active in oil spill clean-up operations, both off- and on-shore. He has
trained contingency crews all over the world.
Flemming Hvidbak was up to 91 DESMI Environmentals regional sales
manager for North- and South America.
He established DESMI INC. in the USA in 1991 and was its president for
the first three years, supporting the US oil spill industry in the hectic
years in the aftermath of Exxon Valdez and OPA 90.
From 1993 he became the head of DESMI Environmental.
From 1995 to 1997 Flemming Hvidbak served as international project
manager, responsible for DESMIs activities within the field of on-shore
remediation of oil polluted land, especially pit-cleaning. In cooperation
with an Ecuadorian company, joint-venture companies were formed in Panama,
Ecuador, and Venezuela. Flemming Hvidbak served as director in each of these
companies. In 1996 and '97 the Ecuadorian JV successfully remediated about
100 old oil production pits for Texaco in the Ecuadorian part of the Amazon
Rain Forest.
Flemming Hvidbak has made numerous presentations on how to combat oil
pollution, and especially how to deal with high viscosity problems, at
conferences and seminars throughout the World.