DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OIL GATHERING Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC E02B15/04 B63B35/32 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: device includes a set of oil-retention booms connected with generation of a length of a line of oil-retention booms. The line of oil-retention booms contains few distanced from each other anchor bends for securing of an oil-retention boom with an anchor to the sea bed. Between anchor bends and in a connection with an oil-retention boom there is an oil-gathering station for gathering oil directed by booms from water surface. The device also includes a range of package units, in which oil-retention booms, relative oil-gathering stations and equipment for anchor installation are tightly packed and coupled with each other, forming a directly deployable uniform set. The method of oil gathering from water surface consists in installation of a floating oil-retention boom in water perpendicularly to the direction of oil movement, in fact. An oil-retention boom is secured with an anchor to the sea bed, using a range of anchor bends distanced from each other; at that, this distance is obviously less than the length of oil-retention booms between them. Oil-retention booms between two securing points are arranged of V-shape pointed away from approaching oil slick. An oil-gathering station is secured to the angle of a V-shaped oil-retention boom. Gathered in the angle of a V-shaped boom oil is picked up from water surface to the oil-gathering station. Floating oil-retention booms, associated oil-gathering stations and equipment for anchor installation are tightly packed and coupled with each other in a package unit or storage case.

EFFECT: invention facilitates fast and efficient oil gathering and removal from water surface.

13 cl, 8 dwg