NEW PRODUCTS

VIKOMA UPGRADES ITS VIKOSEAL AND PIER SEALING SYSTEMS

VikoSeal pier sealing systems provide an efficient solution for primary containment of oil spills on open piers.

Legged piers can provide a challenge when it comes to oil containment of spills during bunkering and transfer operations.

In the system installed in the picture above, a neoprene sentinel boom is combined with an integrated VikoSeal together with a slider system to accommodate the rise and fall of the tide.

The flexibility and strength of neoprene works perfectly and provides a long term

solution as an alternative to surrounding vessels with oil containment boom.

VikoSeal can also be used as a standalone solution without pier sealing in ship to ship or ship to shore transfer operations.

VikoSeal has just been upgraded and is now expandable with interchangeable mid sections for the perfect fit, giving the user greater flexibility and availability on short lead times.

More details from www.vikoma.com

OPEC WORKING WITH BALFOUR BEATTY

OPEC were approached by Balfour Beatty earlier this year to supply a bund for a ‘temporary installation’ of a transformer for National Grid at Magnox, Wales.

The complete mega bund installation

It turned out that they required something to cope with 80 tonnes of oil. We decided it was necessary to make something more substantial as it would not cope with a big spill.

Commissioning the bund water control unit

We designed this with a ribbed steel structure to help reduce deflection as well as sloping it outwards to encourage any force against it to be pushed down to the ground not out to the side. It would actually make a good flood barrier.

Step access into the bund

We welded the membrane on site and erected the steel in a modular format. Finally, we installed two bund water control units (one either side).

More details from: www.opec.co.uk