Open Ocean Recovery

Blockading the Oil from the Shoreline

Clean Beach Technologies Open Ocean Recovery System (OORS), mounted on specially configured ocean going barges, has the high capacity oil recovery capability to collect 5000 barrels per HOUR (yes, per hour). This is 10 times the daily leakage rate from the BP oil spill.  With several OORS barges deployed in a column, we can effectively set up a blockade to keep much of the oil from going to the Gulf shoreline and causing irreparable damage.  In this battle and race to prevent damage to the marshlands, the beaches, and way of life of so many people, this technology, based on a new high capacity pump design, can be configured on open ocean barges with a holding capacity of 3.2 million gallons of oil. The oil can then be transferred to a tanker, and the collection operations continued on a 24/7 basis. 

The OORS also has an Undersea Oil Recovery System (UORS) capability, enabling the undersea oil plume to be captured and pumped to a barge.  In this configuration on a barge, a series of the same Fast Flow Pumps™ are deployed in a vertical array, enabling oil to be pumped from the ocean at depths to 700 feet and at capacities of up to 5000 barrels per hour with 8 pumps deployed vertically underwater.

These systems can be deployed in a very short period of time to mitigate the effects of the oil leak, and prevent additional damage to the shorelines of the Gulf.

CBT can outfit 50 x 100 foot ocean going barges with 8 FastFlow^™ pumps each, creating the capability to pump 8,000 barrels per hour, compared with a leak rate of 5,000 barrels per day. We will position barges near the leak and capture nearly all the crude oil that leaks, for further distribution back to oil company.