Oman Green Award For Oil Combat Equipment

The Oman Green Awards (OGA) 2011 were recently announced in the Al Bustan Palace Hotel's Majan Ballroom, which turned into a virtual green zone against a tapestry of green messages. Over 20 companies, institutions and ministries made it onto the victory podium, having proven their green intent through measures that were in the interest of society at large. The Voraxial Technology introduced by Al Abrar Petrogas received an award for its significant contribution to combating oil spillage and treating contaminated water. 

OGA 2011 was presided over by HE Mohammed bin Salim bin Said Al Toobi, Minister of Environment and Climate Affairs, His Highness Sayyid Tarik bin Shabib, Editor in Chief, Oman Economic Review, and Sandeep Sehgal, chief executive, United Media Services (UMS). The OGA, conceptualised and initiated by UMS, and now into its second edition, was attended by a host of executives, institution heads and senior representatives from the corporate world. Officials from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat Municipality, Ministry of Health and Environment Society of Oman - main supporters of OGA 2011 - also attended the glittering awards ceremony.

OGA has earned recognition as a platform that honours and appreciates outstanding environmental vision and achievements in the Sultanate. It has, simultaneously, raised awareness to the larger cause of environment and has encouraged companies to work towards this goal.

Al Abrar Petrogas has nominated Voraxial Technology as an innovative solution for recovering oil from oil spills and produced water used by oil producing companies. The use of this technology will protect water resources, ground water and sea water from contamination. It was tested during the Gulf of Mexico spillage and the results surprised many people. The technology will also help oil producers and refineries which dump produced water or waster into Oman Sea to treat such wastes and meet environment standards. It will be of great importance to dry dock ports where there are a lot of oil spills by ships which come for services. This technology will be able to treat the water and recover the oil and return the clean water back to the sea. Voraxial Technology also helps in reducing CO2 emissions as it uses less power and energy.

The Voraxial is efficient as a liquid/liquid, liquid/solid or liquid/liquid/solid separator. The Voraxial Separator is a compact, 2-way or 3-way separator that is able to process large volume of liquids with a small footprint and without any pressure loss. The Voraxial produces a high centrifugal force and generates a vortex to separate a mixture of fluids or a combination of fluids and solids by their different densities. The heavier elements are drawn to the outside of the vortex while the lighter materials are drawn toward the centre, forming the central core of the vortex. A specially designed manifold is utilised at the exit of the separation chamber to collect the separated streams.