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AQUA-GUARD SKIMMER ACQUISITION

Trans Mountain Pipeline recently completed the purchase of six new AquaGuard skimmers to bolster the company’s existing spill response and recovery capacity.

The new skimmers will replace the existing Aqua-Guard skimmers in Trans Mountain’s Oil Spill Containment and Recovery (OSCAR) trailers. The new skimmers have several improvements over the previous models and are easily integrated into Trans Mountain’s existing OSCARS setup.

The AquaGuard RBS Triton 35 Skimmer model was selected because of our response team’s familiarity with its operation and its compatibility with existing recovery modules. These skimmers are especially effective in removing oil products from water, whether the product has combined viscosities (heavy and light) or a singular viscosity. This recovery flexibility is significant for Trans Mountain as both heavy and light oil products are moved via Trans Mountain’s pipeline.

Each skimmer comes equipped with ASTM capable connectors that allow for easy connection with Trans Mountain’s spill containment boom. In addition, the front trough of each skimmer can be removed for better operation within high wave and windy conditions.

The Canadian Coast Guard and Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) have recently purchased
RBS skimmer models as well. This allows Trans Mountain increased interoperability with its response partners in the event of a release into the Lower Fraser River or Burrard Inlet, as well as any future spill response exercises and training events. The skimmers will debut at Trans Mountain’s upcoming ice response exercises in February 2021 and will be featured heavily throughout the remainder of Trans Mountain’s spill response deployment exercises in 2021.

The Responder is now available online: https://docs.transmountain.com/The-Responder-Winter-2020.pdf?mtime=20210318230414

About Aqua-Guard

Aqua-Guard provides a range of state-of-the-the-art oil spill response solutions including the URO Skimmer System and the RBS TRITON™ range of oil skimmers—all built on Aqua-Guard’s patented RBS TRITON™ technology to deliver some of the highest efficiency and recovery rates in the industry.