Response Equipment Testing

flemingCo has planned, conducted, or participated in tests of oil spill response equipment for Ro-Clean DESMI, for Bitor America Corporation, for LAMOR Corporation, at OHMSETT, with GPC/US Navy/US Coast Guard, and with the Canadian Coast Guard/SAIC Canada.

JVOPS Workshop and Test
The Joint US and Canadian Coast Guard and Industry Viscous Oil Pumping System (JVOPS #6) workshop and test, which had been planned for almost two years, took place at the Cenac Towing Inc. facility in Houma, Louisiana, USA in December 2003. The JVOPS project is the most comprehensive high- and extreme viscosity oil testing that has ever been carried out. The most important and rather dramatic results have been extracted after an initial study of the gathered data and are presented in the preliminary JVOPS Test Summary (PDF - 154 kb). The full picture is presented in the Final Report, which can be downloaded from The Oil Spill Recovery Institute (Alaska)  (PDF files).

Tests of Skimmers and Pumps on 2-3 million cSt extreme Viscosity Bitumen
Check summary results from  testing of new response techniques and technology developed for Orimulsion spill response. Hereunder tests of mechanical feeder skimmers and steam injection assisted pumping on 2-3 million cSt extremely viscous bitumen.

• Part 1 - What is Orimulsion

• Part 2 - New Orimulsion® Spill Response Equipment Have Been Tested

• Part 3 - Bitumen Pump Transfer Test at DESMI 2001-02-20 to 03-01

• Part 4 - New Steam Water Extreme Viscosity Pump Transfer System
               Increases the GT-185 Pumping Rate 40 times!

• Part 5 - Most recent mechanical feeder skimmer test (Lamor Brush Belt)

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For more in-depth information on the developed technologies and the tests, please check   Projects & Papers.