The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is conducting comparative dispersant testing in warm water at the Ohmsett Facility test basin. This work builds off of the cold water test conducted in 2014 (Project OSRR 1016). Five dispersants were selected from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Contingency Plan (NCP) Product Schedule and were tested on a Gulf of Mexico crude at Ohmsett. They include Corexit® EC9500A, Finasol® OSR 52, Accell® Clean DWD, Marine D-Blue Clean, and ZI 400.
This project has concluded. Testing of the five dispersants on HOOPS oil blend was conducted from October 13-27, 2015. The data from this research project was reported in the 2017 International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings, and can be downloaded from this IOSC Proceedings website:
https://meridian.allenpress.com/iosc/article/2017/1/347/198034/Large-Scale-Comparative-Testing-of-Corexit-EC9500A.
For ease of access, this IOSC manuscript is also provided in the report section of this site.