Oil Spill Clean Up Solution Rejected to Favor Chemicals in the Gulf

Yulia Deneko, co-creator of the Biofilter™, announces past successes of the safe non toxic oil field cleanup system.

“In 2010 we tested the Biofilter™, a non-toxic and safe oil spill clean up solution, in the Gulf of Mexico at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster and proved its effectiveness in cleaning up the oil spill”, said Yulia.

“Despite the proof and it being used all around the world for the last 10 years it was rejected as solution for the oil spill clean up in the Gulf of Mexico”, noted Deneko.

“Instead mainly chemicals were used to try and dissipate the oil spill and we now see the damaging results of this to not only the environment but also to those who were exposed to the chemicals", said Yulia.

Mrs. Deneko, a graduate of the Research and Development Institute of Ecology in Tyumen, Russia said, "The Biofilter™ acts as a boom equipped with interchanging sorbent fibres 3 – 10 feet in length with varying densities. The fabric fibres are saturated with indigenous microbes already found in the aquatic ecosystem which then begins a biogenic process rapidly breaking down oil and petrochemicals upon contact. The Biofilter™ can absorb over 200 barrels of waste per hour per mile."

"As the oil is wicked up the fibres, a stable, oxygen-rich environment is created for the microbes to proliferate. The microbes consume the oil, breaking down into water, carbon dioxide and fatty acids (a water soluble food for plants and fish)," said Deneko.

Deneko, who conducted the field trip to the Gulf in 2010, further demonstrated that the oil containment booms already in use were not stopping or catching the oil spill. The oil spill was lapping over or washing under the 30 year old booms.

Days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 80 km off Louisiana's coast, about 1,000 barrels of oil per day were flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, according to BP. A week later, a government scientist estimated the flow at nearly 5,000 barrels, but said he could not vouch for the accuracy of that figure.

With so much oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, it's unknown why a non-toxic and safe oil spill clean up solution was not used and chemicals were favored instead.

With more oil spills occurring around the world, more recently in Santa Barbara, off the California Coast, Yulia commented that her goal is to get the Biofilter™ more readily accepted and implemented as a safe, viable and cost effective oil spill clean up solution to help reduce the damaging effects of chemical oil spill clean up.

A video documenting the field trip showing the Biofilter™ in action as an effective oil spill clean up solution for the Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster can be watched here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEs1tPQcCpI

Find out more about the Biofilter™ by contacting Yulia Deneko at ydeneko@rusecology.ru.