Orders to manufacture the recently approved Heavy Oil Recovery Device (HORD) have reached eight to ten per day in shipyards at Bayou La Batre, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida, in the United States, according to reports in PennEnergy.
As many as 1,000 of the devices are expected to be ordered.
Originally called tarball retrieval devices, the combination filter, containment, and disposal device is designed to recover the thick, heavy oil that is difficult for traditional skimmers and also the sheen left on the water surface following skimming.
HORD is a mesh bag held open by a 91 x 91-centremetre frame. It is dragged through the water by shrimp boats where the cage-like device captures as much as two tonnes of tar, oil, and sheen that then goes onshore to disposal facilities.
Source: PennEnergy
