AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE'S WORK ON SPILL PREVENTION, CONTAINMENT, AND CLEANUP
A research program directed toward improving the industry's capability of preventing oil spills and improving response and capability of oil spill cleanup has been supported by the API since 1968. These efforts have ranged from studies that determined industry's current oil-spill response capability to new equipment demonstrations and basic research on fate and effect of spilled oil. More recently, API's efforts have concentrated on improvement of oil-spill recovery in high sea conditons. Full-scale sea trials have been conducted on several systems, concentrating most heavily on "new concept" methods for oil spill recovery under these adverse conditions. This paper summarizes some of the more recent trials of this type of equipment and also details the status of some of the API sponsored "fate and effect research" such as that being conducted by Texas A&M University, University of California, and Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest Laboratory.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Presented at the 1973 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Tex., April 30-May 2, 1973.
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Corporate Authors:
Offshore Technology Conference
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Authors:
- Haxby, L P
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1973-4
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 257-260
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Serial:
- Volume: 1
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Oil spill cleanup; Oil spills; Prevention
- Old TRIS Terms: Oil containment; Oil recovery systems; Oil spill prevention
- Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00054055
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Maritime Research Center, Galveston
- Report/Paper Numbers: OTC #1749
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 7 1974 12:00AM