FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON RECOVERY ON METHOD FOR SPILLED OIL BY USING A BUCKET

There are currently offshore oil and natural gas drilling projects being carried out in the Sea of Okhotsk near the northern part of Sakhalin. Following a small-scale oil spill that occurred soon after oil production started due to a detached hose on the oil deserving tanker, there has been an increased awareness of the risk of a major oil spill affecting the coastal areas of Hokkaido on both the Japan Sea and Okhotsk Sea sides. The recovery of spilled oil in the sea is greatly affected by weather conditions, sea condition and the viscosity of the oil. Authors have developed a new efficient method for the recovery of spilled oil, and basic experiments were carried out in this study to test the effectiveness of this method.