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Project Number 113
Date of Summary March 31, 1990
Subject Open Ocean Boom Test
Performing Activity Conservation and Protection Agency, Environment Canada
Principal Investigator Mr. Kenneth M. Meikle
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description The Minerals Management Service and Conservation and Protection Agency, Environment Canada, initiated open ocean oil spill response equipment performance evaluations in 1984. The objective of this study was to develop a nonpolluting and cost-effective testing procedure. This standardized testing would provide a predictive capability for the behavior of each piece of equipment in a range of sea states. This standardized test procedure could be used to approve specific pieces of equipment for different lease areas.
Progress Completed

Reports
AA File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (44 pages) SL Ross Environmental Research, Draft Test Protocol for Offshore Boom Trials, SL Ross Environmental Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada, May 1987.
AB File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (50 pages) McKown, G. L., Borst, M. J., Nash, J. H., OHMSETT Support of the Offshore Boom and Skimmer Trials St. Johns, Newfoundland, Roy F. Weston Associates, Leonardo, New Jersey, August 1988.
AC File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (145 pages) SL Ross Environmental Research, Draft Offshore Testing of Booms and Skimmers: A Report to Environment Canada, Environmental Emergencies Technology Division, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 1987.
AD File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (4 pages) Tennyson, E., Whittaker, H., The 1987 Newfoundland Oil Spill Recovery Experiment, Proceedings of the Eleventh Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 7-9, 1988.
AE File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (7 pages) Tennyson, E., Whittaker, H., The 1987 Newfoundland Oil Spill Experiment - An Overview, Oceans '88 Proceedings, Baltimore Maryland, October 21 - November 2, 1988.

 

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