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Woods Hole Group, Inc., under contract to the Environmental Consulting Bureau of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), conducted a field demonstration of oil remediation techniques applicable to arid environments. Approximately 750 km of shoreline within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along the Arabian Gulf were impacted as a direct result of the 1991 Gulf War. The area covered in this field study extends along the KSA Arabian Gulf shore from the Kuwait border to the industrial city of Al-Jubail. This complex shoreline is composed of an interlaced series of tide flats, beaches, embayments, and salt marshes. Much of these ecosystems remain severely impacted from the oil spill. The Remediation Technology Assessment (RTA) was designed to follow a logical, sequential series of steps representing international protocol for conducting remediation technology evaluations that relied heavily on approaches developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Utilizing this approach assured that the designed approach was credible, complete, replicable, and reliable. The major steps in the RTA conduct included:
This sequential design was followed in a general sense, but the accelerated schedule associated with the UNCC damage claims process required constant amendments to the scheduling of these various tasks. Lack of availability of some equipment locally also affected the ability of the field trials to be carried out as designed; modification to the field trial operations plan was required nearly daily to respond to lessons learned during the previous work. However, all tasks were completed successfully on schedule. The laboratory-scale trials provided important conclusions for the field-scale trials. Laboratory studies included:
Extensive work on materials handling was conducting, both in the field and in consolidated materials handling yard. Requirements for transportation, for separation, for handling were all tested in the field. Recommendations for effective use of each of these techniques were developed and are presented to the Client. Unit costs for all work also were developed based on the field trials. Although large-scale remediation will present certain economies of scale, the mixture of high technology (HTTD) and low technologies required the development of a complex costing matrix to estimate and control costs.
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