BEYOND MARINE TO OIL SPILL REMEDIATION.

Green Ocean is a proud distributor of Mariner's Choice products and MUNOX.
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All businesses evolve, and at Mariner’s Choice we are going full speed ahead in the direction of oil spill bioremediation with MUNOX SR®.

Micro-organisms have been around forever, and they are nothing new.  But it’s all in the way that the microbes are harvested that make MUNOX SR® exceptional.  It contains healthy non-sporogenic pseudomonas strain in high concentration for optimal removal of petroleum and petrochemicals.

Statistics and data of oil spills have been well documented over the past 40+ years.   Information is readily available from various organizations, such as The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF) and Environmental Research Consulting, who published an Analysis of Oil Spills in the United States and Worldwide for the 2001 International Oil Spill Conference.  This report showed:  “Estimated total amount of oil spilled into marine waters worldwide (1990-1999)  Total amount spilled: 943,170,000 gallons (3,208,000 tons) (source:  Environmental Research Consulting Database)….An ill-timed oil spill that occurs in a sensitive location, regardless of spill size, can cause devastating damage to natural environments, property, and business, and, occasionally, to human lives.  Aging pipeline and facility infrastructures, as well as aging vessel fleets, may be ‘ticking time bombs’ especially as they become subjected to increasing oil throughput and transport in future years…”

The number of spills and the quantity spilled over the years are staggering.  And that’s just those that have been recorded.

MUNOX SR® is ideal for remediation of beaches, inlets, ponds, marshes, pits, gas stations, soil and ground water, regardless of the spill being fresh or weathered.  It is highly effective, efficient, non-invasive and the best part is that MUNOX SR® can restore the property to its original fertile state and be productive again, allowing the value to be reclaimed.

NON-INVASIVE WAY TO CLEAN-UP OIL SPILLS!

There are many different approaches to an oil clean-up, and many have merits for their specified applications.

The use of MUNOX SR® in appropriate situations alleviates the need for laborious techniques such as excavation, extensive costs associated with them, and the disruption of the natural environment and landscape.

Efficiency and effectiveness of MUNOX cannot be understated.   The microbes seek out their food source (contaminants), keep multiplying to increase their population (in MUNOX, there are >1.1 trillion colony forming units – CFUs – per liter and that number keeps growing once the product has been applied) and continue their work to metabolize the contaminants until there is no more.  The ability of MUNOX microbes to maintain their stamina and to multiply exponentially rest with the advanced technology used in harvesting these healthy pseudomonas strains that metabolize petroleum and petrochemicals.

MUNOX is ideal for both surface and sub-surface treatments. In the case of treating surface contaminants, MUNOX is simply sprayed on, while for sub-surface, it can be applied by drilling or infiltration galleries.

The upside benefits are numerous – cost savings, time efficiency, and sustainability of the environment.

As a follow up to our last Blog, here are two more recent spills that were reported – on March 18, “MS Oliva runs aground on Nightingale Island…Viola has now broken in two and is leaking oil around the island.  The ship was carrying 1500 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.”  And just the other day, on April 2  (North Dakota)