The largest oil platforms on the water
240 km off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, where the sea depth exceeds 1600 m, a floating factory - the drilling platform EVA-4000, owned by Noble Jim Thompson - operates non-stop. This space age structure was created to search for treasure - oil. The giant oil platform is designed solely to...
What is oil made of?
Oil is a dark red-brown, sometimes almost black, oily liquid. It contains about 1000 substances! The largest part of them (80-90%) are hydrocarbons, that is, organic substances consisting of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Oil contains about 500 hydrocarbon compounds - paraffinic (alkanes), which make up half of all petroleum hydrocarbons, naphthenic (cyclanes) and aromatic (benzene...
Why is oil called black gold?
Oil definitely has similarities with the precious metal, even though oil is liquid and gold is solid. Both oil and gold are minerals found in the bowels of the earth. To find and get them, you need to make a huge effort. Moreover, the number of both fossils is limited. Both oil and gold are non-renewable...
Our traditions
The ECONAD company develops and implements environmental technologies aimed at protecting the natural environment from oil pollution. Production of ecological products: Oil sorbents, "Econadin" oil and petroleum product sorbents, and oil and chemical sorbents; Bonnet barriers and barriers; Sorbent beans, wipes, and mats for collecting oil, materials for collecting oil and chemicals; Oil skimmers; "Econad" ecological first aid kits; Tanks for storing...
