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HOW TO TURN

A MONSTER INTO

PRECIOUS CARGO.

There's hardly a soul in the marine industry who doesn't recognize six-oil residues in barge bottoms as a man-eater of prehistoric proportions. To remove this kind of heavy sludge devours days of back-breaking labor, not to mention the hazardous nature of the working environment and the puzzle of what to do with the huge amounts of waste water gen- erated by conventional cleaning methods.

Now Petroferm Marine, using a biopolymer from nature, offers a closed system of cleaning that fluidizes residual oil, pumps it out, and stores the recovered hydro- carbons for burning at the clean- ing site or elsewhere. The shipyard or repair service can then move right into hotwork in a gas-free atmosphere, and in most cases, make interior repairs much sooner than could normally be expected.

Petroferm's system, including pumps and spray technology, has proven itself on real-time jobs at Mainstream Shipyards in Greenville, Mssissippi, and we will be most happy to share our findings, the system's benefits and what we know of its limitations, with persons interested in acquiring this capability derived from biotechnology.

For more details, please write Mr. Kimble Lehman, Petroferm

Marine, Route 2, Box 280, Amelia Island, Florida 32034, or call (904) 261-8286. We believe the monster that's draining off a lot of your time could reshape itself into some very liquid assets.

Petroferm Marine

January 1, 1985 Circle 198 on Reader Service Card 17