Oil Recovery Vessel - ORV

Oil spills at sea cause serious damage to marine life as well as coastal areas and often demand huge sums of investment to clean up the affected areas. It is a time consuming and labour intensive mission, that needs to be set out each time an (oil) tanker looses oil. Its success depends on the speed of the spills and the wind effect. Usually, only parts are cleaned while the remainder is washed ashore.

By designing a high seaworthy catamaran type of vessel with on-board cleaning and out-board oil slick storing facilities, Van den Noort Innovations BV has succeeded to bring about a break-through concept to act signicantly faster and much more effectively.

 

The ORV is especially developed for the purpose to substantially enhance speed and capacity to recover oil spills from an oil disaster at sea. With a cruising speed of 25 – 30 knots it responds much faster to the disaster scene and by its concept this type of vessel is to collect 500 tons of slick with an average speed of 5 knots per hour. No intermediate slick discharge in nearest port is required as slick is pumped in separate floating rubber containers during cleaning activity as long as it takes. Note: this invention has received the Innovation 2000 Award.