Umnenga means whale in the Xhosa language, a South African ethnic group, for Eco-Oil Umnenga meant in 2020 the biggest cleaning job on a tanker. About 100 tons of sludge were removed, in an operation that proved to be very difficult due to the unpreparedness of the work - “when the ship arrived at the [...]
In January, Eco-Oil carried out the cleaning of two Venezuelan tankers for PDV Marina. In this operation, besides the usual teams of service providers, we have the permanent monitoring of a rescue team of the Sapadores de Setúbal, which is an important improvement in the prevention and intervention capacity in case of an accident.
Eco-Oil concluded in March 2016 the demucking operation in ASPEN SPIRIT, NORDIC SPIRIT and PROTEO, with a total of 380 tons of sludge removed. After the success of the demucking operation of ZEUS in November 2015, in March 2016 Eco-Oil accomplish a similar operation in the sister-vessel PROTEO, which is managed by the same company.
Eco-Oil concluded another demucking operation in ZEUS in November, with the final output of 300 tons of sludge.
Eco-Oil has done a new demucking operation in MT Beijing.
On June 11th, it was concluded the operation of sludge removal of the ship holds. In eight days there were removed 230 tons of sludge.
