Marine Supply & Equipment

The Oilfence System

Superior Spill Containment

Super-Tough
Super-Tough and Durable
OILFENCE™ installations reliably deliver many years of continuous and sustained service. OILFENCE™ materials are advanced synthetics that are both strong and highly resistant to degradation from salt water, ultra-violet light, ozone, and abrasion. OILFENCE™ stabilizers and flotation components are molded of high-strength plastics, resins, and fiberglass. The barrier fabric is woven polyester that is impregnated with polyurethane for very high resistance to both abrasion and tear.

OILFENCE™ containment is simple and fast to install. Sections connect securely without tools. The polymer, unisex end-connectors join with a patented double-quick lock that latches with twin stainless steel rods. A “super-tough” nylon handle at the top and bottom of each stabilizer allows effective tie-off and handling, plus secure storage bundling.


CORROSION-FREE
CORROSION-FREE PERFORMANCE
from durable, synthetic plastic components

EASE OF INSTALLATION AND TOWING
with quick secure, unisex end connectors

SIMPLE ROUTINE MAINTENANCE
because of practical, symmetrical design

FOUR INTER-CONNECTABLE DRAFT/FREEBOARD HEIGHTS
to fit your installation conditions

OUTSTANDING BUOYANCY
from urethane foam filled, cast polyethylene float

HIGH STABILITY
in chop, wind, and tidal currents


Designed and Engineered for Long-term Service

Thousands of feet of OILFENCE™ barrier have been in continuous use since 1972, a record of durability unmatched in the industry today. Extended service life is the design fundamental of OILFENCE™ barriers. The system was specifically and totally planned for long-term, permanent installation – not adapted from a temporary use design. All materials are specified for durability and corrosion resistance under extreme conditions.

Adverse sea and climate conditions can make sophisticated inflatables or other booms hard to launch and keep in service. But difficult environments are no problem for OILFENCE™ containment. OILFENCE™ barriers perform to design standards in climates that range from sustained Artic cold to the fierce summers of the Arabian Gulf. OILFENCE™ installations have proven effective and practical under widely varying sea, wind, and current conditions. Moreover, your crews can easily handle routine maintenance, section by section, without removal from service.

OILFENCE™ barriers are also an outstanding emergency containment solution. An OILFENCE™ barrier provides initial response capability and durability under sustained use that no inflatable or lightweight emergency response boom can deliver. In remote operations where an inflatable boom system can’t be backed up, rugged and reliable OILFENCE™ barriers can form the basis for a realistic emergency response plan.

Superior Spill Containment

In this environmentally sensitive world, choosing a long-term oil spill containment system can be a critical decision. To guard against costly environmental problems, your barrier system must be effective, reliable, and practical for your unique conditions.

This is exactly why OILFENCE™ barriers have been the oil industry’s superior spill containment solution for over two decades. In permanent installations worldwide, durable OILFENCE™ booms are providing unsurpassed containment for floating materials. An OILFENCE™ barrier delivers outstanding stability, buoyancy, and corrosion resistance, plus easy installation and routine maintenance. The record of long-term OILFENCE™ applications in oil handling and producing installations around the world includes: offshore production platforms, exploratory rigs, marine terminals and other coastal facilities, oil jetties, and settling ponds.

Simple to Use

Towing OILFENCE™ sections presents no difficulty. The system can include towing bridles that, like OILFENCE™ section connectors, quickly secure without tools. OILFENCE™ sections aver very lightweight for their size. With a bridle in place, a string of OILFENCE™ sections can be easily and safely towed into position.

The fully symmetrical design of OILFENCE™ sections, with equal freeboard and draft, greatly simplifies routing maintenance. When cleaning is needed, each section is simply turned over. The sea growth can then die and fall off. All OILFENCE™ surfaces are smooth and non-porous, so they are readily cleaned in position with industrial detergents and pressure washers.

You can custom fit an OILFENCE™ barrier to the depth, wave, and tide conditions at your facility by choosing among four available heights: 16 inches total draft and freeboard, 24 inches, 36 inches, and 48 inches. Sections of differing heights can be easily connected together, when required for a particular installation.

Manufactured and Backed by a Leader in Containment Technology

Applied Fabric Technologies has specialized in the design and fabrication of high quality, oil spill control barriers since 1988. It is the direct successor of two companies that were pioneers in the oil spill control equipment industry from its beginning in the early 1970’s.

Applied Fabric Technologies people have over 20 years of spill containment experience and a strong record of success in system design and engineering. Using a systems approach to long-term floating oil spill barrier projects, Applied Fabric Technologies experts can assist you with:

Design, maintenance, and engineering of your OILFENCE™ installation
Application and contingency planning
Storage or other control-related equipment

OILFENCE™ Performance Advantages

HIGH STABILITY in chop, wind, and tidal currents, OILFENCE™ booms deliver outstanding stability, even in high currents or severe off-shore applications because of their unique, large ratio of flotation span to height. This ratio is possible because the OILFENCE™ system uses extra-wide outrigger flotation to support its high-tensile strength barrier fabric. Stiff, injection molded vertical stabilizers reduce bowing in currents and maintain the barrier against splash-over.

Measured to ASTM standards, OILFENCE™ buoyancy scores an impressively high 10 to 1 ratio. Moreover, in a very significant measure not included in the ASTM calculations, an OILFENCE™ boom responds quickly to wave impact, displaying a much steeper response curve than many inflatables and conventional systems. OILFENCE™ containment is also an outstanding performer in high winds. In three- meter waves, it has maintained freeboard and draft integrity through 100 kilometer (60 mile) per hour winds.

Your Complete Source for Spill Control Equipment and Support

Applied Fabric Technologies offers one of the world’s best ranges of oil spill equipment: booms, oil skimmers, absorbents, marine equipment, oil spill dispersants, and dispersant application equipment. Our own products, plus long-term, exclusive marketing arrangements with other world-class manufacturers, allow us to customize complete packages for your needs.

OILFENCE™ Warranty

Applied Fabric Technologies, Inc. guarantees OILFENCE™ booms to be free of defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date of purchase.

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Proven in Long-Term Service

Throughout the 20 plus years that OILFENCE™ barriers have been marketed, Applied Fabric Technologies and its forebears have upgraded both materials and design as improved components became available. The molded plastic components and fabric presently specified are today’s superior performers.

The unique OILFENCE™ design remains a timeless classic, as practical, effective, and reliable a solution to spill-control needs today as it was when introduced. In fact, many of the original OILFENCE™ barriers are still in service, either where first installed or as re-installed in new locations. Other boom systems have come and gone, but OILFENCE™ thrives because it cost-effectively delivers superior performance under the most difficult operating conditions.


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