I’ll never forget my first conversation with a safety manager. It was about toxic vapors caused by firefighting foam on a chemical spill. I was explaining how PetroGuard Chemical Spill Absorbent would be different because it quickly absorbs liquid chemicals and minimizes hydrolyzing, resulting in the reduction or elimination of toxic fumes, fires or explosions. […]
It happened again at the midnight hour. A chemical spill that shut down operations at the plant. As Sean was suiting up, he was thinking how happy he was that his plant manager was using PetroGuard Chemical Spill Absorbent. When a chemical spill happens, everyone knows how important every part of an emergency response plan […]
Being prepared to clean up an oil sheen on water not only requires a rapid response plan, but it requires using the best products available. There are a few oil sheen removal pillows on the market, but they are not all created equal. There’s a big difference between conventional oil sheen absorption products and specialty […]
How can an oil sheen on water be like flying off an aircraft carrier. In my earlier days I flew off aircraft carriers. It was dangerous, thrilling and the odds weren’t always on the pilot’s side. It took precision skill to land that aircraft in the middle of the ocean. Every landing was different because […]
When it comes to oil sheen removal, are you settling? Are you doing what you can with what you’ve got? You know those off the shelf products don’t quite do it. But… they are what you’re used to using. Guess what….you don’t have to settle. When it comes to something as important as oil sheen […]
When it came to oil sheen removal, they were trying too hard. No matter what Kaitlin and the company she worked for tried to do to get rid of the oil sheen on their ponds and puddles, the booms, pads and skimmers just didn’t do it. When Kaitlin called us, she said nothing they were […]
When it comes to wastewater solidification, you can easily get burnt by those “lost-cost” solidification products. You unsuspectingly think it could save tons of money. It’s how you they snag you. But during these inflationary times, “low cost” products can end up costing more than you could ever imagine. Take for example this situation. You […]
When production is running full tilt the last thing you want to do is take employees off the production line to go change out booms that are part of your oil sheen removal system on your holding pond. But it needs to be done, so you do it. They get to the pond, and it […]
One day as Joe was working the pipeline master control, he noticed an irregularity indicating there was a leak and oil spill from one of the feed lines. He immediately deployed a response team to deal with the leak and oil spill. Fortunately, the response team had PetroGuard-D on hand because a few weeks earlier their […]
Hauling wastewater isn’t cheap. What if you could decrease those costs by half? You can do that with SludgeGuard, our bulk waste solidifying products. Here’s what our clients say about these products: they appreciably reduce disposal costs; because it’s so highly absorbent, it reduces the amount of waste discharged to the environment by up to […]