OIL SEA HARVESTER

The consequences of tanker accidents are often catastrophic, raising the issue of oil spills to the highest priority for the EU community. Analysing oil pollution from accidents like the Erika or Prestige, there is a clear need for vessels specifically designed to recover oil pollution at sea (with efficient recovery tools and decantation and storage capacities), which have onboard tools to help them detect and track the pollutants.
The “Oil Sea Harvester” (OSH) project has addressed these needs. The intention was to have a fast ship on transit in order to be quickly on the scene of the accident to operate oil recovery when the spill is still well concentrated. It was also intended to have a ship as stable as possible with oil recovery tools as protected as possible from the sea in order to be able to operate in rather high sea states.
Specific objectives were:

•               To develop an innovative trimaran OSH vessel fitted with PODs for good manoeuvrability on site

•               To develop the OSH oil recovery systems, a unique tool carriage holding the different tools

•               To develop the OSH oil recovery scenarios and needed associated systems

•               To address other complementary missions

Partners

ALSTOM CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE (FR)	www.marine.alstom.com
LAMOR (FI)	www.lamor.fi
CEDRE (FR)	www.le-cedre.fr
LLOYD'S REGISTER (UK)	www.lr.org
PRINCIPIA MARINE (FR)	www.principia.fr
BASSIN D'ESSAIS DES CARENES (FR)	www.bassin.fr
NTUA (GR)	www.martrans.org
SIREHNA (FR)	www.sirehna.com
NAVALIMPIANTI (IT)	www.navim.com
CEHIPAR (SP)	www.cehipar.es
EPE (GR)	www.epe.gr

Contact Project coordination
ALSTOM CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE
Name: Christian Gaudin
Address: Avenue Bourdelle - BP 61775 - 44617 SAINT NAZAIRE - FRANCE
Phone: +33.6.60.10.49.12
Fax: +33.2.51.10.49.57
E-mail: christian.gaudin @ marine.alstom.com

website:  www.osh-project.com