Zeetex CEDRE

ZEETEX Workshop – January 2014
Mikaël Laurent

www.cedre.fr

715, rue Alain Colas - CS 41836 - 29218 BREST CEDEX 2 FRANCE
Tél. : +33 2 98 33 10 10 - Fax : +33 2 98 44 91 38
contact@cedre.fr

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Oil spill response
and textile use


Presentation outline
– Cedre introduction
– Main uses for textiles during an oil spill
– Cedre input
– Principles of French organization
– French market

Cedre


Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation
on Accidental Water Pollution
 Since 1979
 Status : non-profit-making association
 Location : head office in Brest - 1 delegate in Caribbean
and 1 for the Mediterranean Sea
 Staff: about 50 people - Budget 2013 : 4.7 M€

Cedre
Accidental water pollution: response preparedness and operations,
technical expertise, assistance for the authorities
 Scope: Sea and inland waters. Oil and chemicals. In France and abroad.
 Activities: 24-hour advisory service, contingency planning, training, information documentation, research, pollutant behaviour studies, ecotoxicity, equipment and
product testing

 Tools: Man-made beach, seawater basin, laboratory, flume tank (‘polludrome’) for
simulation of weathering in the environment, experimentation greenhouse for testing
contamination of living organisms…

Oil spill : main uses for textiles


1 -- Contain oil /
protect sensitives
sites
2 – Collect oil

3 – Cleaning

Booming : oil containment or
protection of sensitive sites


Means : floating boom
(PVC, PU, neoprene,
hypalon, blend, etc.)

Limits (and possible needs) :
strength, efficiency in
current, marine behaviour ,
only surface protection


Main boom failure

More details at Cedre operational guide
“Manufactured spill response booms”
Download at : www.cedre.fr/en/publication

Nets : Protection of sensitive sites


Means : net, textile

Limits (and possible needs) : sheltered areas, shallow water,
waste treatment

Oil containment
Specific case of in-situ burning


Means : fire boom (fire proof material or water cooled)

Limits (and possible needs) : strength, efficiency in current,
marine behaviour, fire deterioration

Trawling : oil collect at sea
Viscous oil, tar balls


Means : net, trawl, different sizes

Limits (and possible needs) : only highly viscous oil,
extrusion leak, clogging effect , waste management

Nets : oil collect on the shore line
Viscous oil, tar balls


Means : net catching tar balls in the surf area.
Many materials used depending on oil type and exposure

Limits (and possible needs) : only viscous oil, efficiency, waste
management.

Sorbents : oil collect in small quantities


Means : sorbents made of oleophilic material and water
repellent (PP, PE)

Limits (and possible needs) : mainly single use, low viscosity,
small quantities of oil

Storage of collected oil


Means : storage tanks, floating or on land, many sizes

Limits (and possible needs) : complete unloading and cleaning
HNS compatibility, towing strenght

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Shore line cleaning


Means : mainly geotextiles to protect and sorbents to filter

Limits (and possible needs) : efficiency, single use, waste
management

Cedre inputs / textile

• Technical advise


• Feed back from end users through contacts and partners
(from our response Dpt., training, contingency planning,
tests, etc.)
• Standard tests or tailored experimentations, eg.
 Sorbent : efficiency measurment
 Booms : max strenght and marine behaviour
 Nets : measure of viscosity threshold before
extrusion

• Call for tenders : tests to validate specifications achievement
• Specific study in 2014 about shore line tar balls catching with
nets and oil in water filtering with textile : to be continued

Principles of French organization


• Response is organized in two parts:
Sea and Shoreline / Land

•Prestige, 2002, source Cedre

Organisation at sea
• Under the responsibility of the “Maritime Prefect”
in charge of all civilian and military actions


• 3 maritime Prefect : North Sea/Manche, Atlantic,
Mediterranean sea

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Traffic control and surveillance (MRCC)
Emergency assistance
Pollution detection and surveillance
Response at sea
Contingency planning…

• Dedicated

stockpiles for at sea response equipment : CEPPOL
www.ceppol.fr

Organization on land
Three levels:
1/ Minor spill : municipalities (Mayor)


2/ Major spill (several municipalities) :
department (Prefect)
3/ Exceptional spill (several departments):
regional civil defense area (7)

13 Dedicated stockpiles for on land response equipment :
CEREMA (Polmar unit)
polmar.cetmef.developpement-durable.gouv.fr

Spill response equipment market
• Strong specificity of this market :
high demand level during oil spills and low level between them.
• French government :


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– During oil spill : priority orders to referenced suppliers (in the frame of
anticipated markets, including geotextiles and nets).
Renewal of this anticipated market for North of France ongoing : survey call for
tenders in BOAMP (www.boamp.fr) and JOUE (ted.europa.eu)
– During “peace time” : call for tenders according to specificiations and tests
results. Renewal of existing stockpiles (ex : 53 km of boom in land stockpiles
+ 20 km in sea stockpiles)

• Others customers :
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cooperative stockpiles (FOST, OSRL,CCA, ACS, CGA, etc.)
Industrials : EDF, Total, etc.
Fire brigades, municipalities
French syndicate of oil spill response equipment and services : SYCOPOL


Thank you

Zeetex CEDRE

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