Oil Spill Cleanup

[Posted on Jan 16]

Reducing the short term and long term damage caused during an oil spill should be the top priority of those involved when these accidents occur. With effective oil spill cleanup, the potential harm to the environment can be fairly minimal and so too can the financial hit the drilling operation or oil company takes.  Stewart Technology Associates has been assisting clients with both spill containment and oil spill cleanup since being founded in 1986. For the last two and a half decades we’ve been trusted by those in the industry to perform an array of services that have proven to yield legitimate value.

Stewart Technology Associates has worked alongside others in the industry, such as Orcina, the creator of the widely used OrcaFlex software, to develop a number of advancements in both practice and technology over the past 25 years. Those processes and techniques have continued to evolve over time, but STA remains on the cutting edge of the field by adapting to those changes. Recent history has reminded many who don’t follow the offshore drilling industry as closely just how quickly an oil spill can become a disastrous event.

But if there’s a silver lining that comes from the tough of coverage of these accidents, it’s that these drilling operations want to avoid that kind of scrutiny and thus understand just how important it is to have a tested oil spill cleanup policy that they can put into action as soon as it’s needed. To think that these types of accidents, even with extensive preparation, can be avoided altogether is naïve, which is why that’s not a belief held by those who have worked in the field for a significant amount of time. When accidents occur in the offshore and marine drilling industry, the fallout and consequences can be far reaching but they are inevitable to some degree.

Rather than act as if they can be prevented completely, it’s more rational to be prepared to react to them when they do happen. This means developing better spill containment and oil spill cleanup methods. Of course, once the current situation has been resolved and crisis averted, that same drilling operation should carry out a marine accident investigation to determine what mistakes were made. Again, preventing these accidents from occurring isn’t a realistic goal but taking every precaution to reduce the chances that they do is something that can be achieved with the help of Stewart Technology Associates.