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Project Number 514
Date of Summary February 23, 2006
Subject Dispersant Effectiveness testing on Heavy OCS Crude Oils a Ohmsett
Performing Activity S.L. Ross Environmental Research, Ld
Principal Investigator Randy Belore
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description

Project will determine the limiting viscosity for the effectiveness of chemical dispersants applied to viscous U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) crude oils from the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific OCS.
 

Will conduct physical and chemical analysis of the acquired crude oils to categorize them based on properties.

Will conduct small scale wave tank dispersant effectiveness on all twenty crude oil samples. These experiments will be conduced using Corexit 9500 applied at the standard 1:20 dispersant to oil ratio (DOR). Will also conduct large wave tank dispersant effectiveness experiments on viscous OCS heavy crude oils from the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific OCS.

Progress The test oils were acquired and analyzed. Small scale dispersant effectiveness experiments were run in February 2005. The Ohmsett experiments were successfully conduced in April 2005. The final report has been accepted by MMS. This project is complete.

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Report
AA  (21 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dispersant Effectiveness testing on Viscous U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Crude Oils”, SL Ross Environmental Research Ld., Ottawa, ON, 16pp. January 2006
 

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