No standards exist for the performance of oil spill response equipment. Development of a non-polluting, cost effective standard test procedure for evaluating the performance of open ocean containment booms and oil skimmers is needed. The need to increase the number of evaluated products is amplified by recent failures and difficulties in mechanical recovering equipment. Less than 1% of the spill control devices for open ocean field conditions have been tested under measured conditions.
Complete. Two deliverables were received and distributed;
(1) Test Protocol for the Evaluation of Oil-Spill Containment Booms (February 1992) and,
(2) Suggested Test Protocol for the Evaluation of Oil Spill Skimmers for the OCS (February 1992).
These protocols are being reviewed for application at Ohmsett.