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ECOCEANE ANNOUNCES ITS NEW NORTH AMERICAN SUBSIDIARY AND ITS OFFER TO THE GULF OF MEXICO CLEAN-UP MISSION
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Photo 1: Ecoceane Spillglop SG 180 “Catamar” oil-recovery boat

Photo 2: Ecoceane “Catamar” boat filters waste from the water’s surface
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Chicago, August 23, 2010 (word count: 692)
After selling ten of its oil recovery Cataglop ships and renting its Spillglop SG180 (CATAMAR) prototype to intervene in the Gulf of Mexico, the Ecoceance has created the subsidiary Ecoceane North America. This announcement comes as Ecoceane operates a new movement in the region as part of a delegation led by Ubifrance, the agency for international business development. (Note to editors: Please contact us for information about a press conference that will include Ecoceane and other companies of this delegation on August 26 in New Orleans.)
This decision will allow Ecoceane to produce and sell its various lines of ships in North America. In September, Ecoceane will launch its new line dedicated specifically to oil and gas companies. The range Workglop benefits from oil recovery technology developed by Ecoceane and provides all the services between platforms and supertankers to cargo-movers and passenger transport.
On May 28, 2010, the United States announced that it would accept proposals from foreign countries to aid in fight against the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On June 5, Jean-Louis Borloo, the French Minister of State, announced that the June 8 proposal submitted by France to the U.S. would incorporate the offer of Ecoceane ships. Ecoceane, supported by the French government, met with U.S. authorities (coast guards and government), environmental associations and U.S. companies in Louisiana and Florida from June 6 to 27. The sale of the first ten Ecoceane ships to the United States followed this visit.
A French technology patented abroad
Upon activation of the motor, Ecoceane boats filter water that passes through their hulls. A turbine pulls a stream of water through a tank equipped with a mesh to filter out solid waste. The stream is then separated into two. First stream: The turbine pumps away the clean water. Second stream: Surface water, polluted with oil and hydrocarbons, is channeled into a hydrocarbon separator where the hydrocarbons are stored floating on the water. Clean water within the separator joins the main stream and is rejected through the turbine.
Ecoceane’s three major activities
I. Maintenance and cleaning of the coastline, ports, marinas and waterways: Cataglop range. The CG92 Cataglop cleans an area of 10,000 square meters per hour.
II. Services to oil and gas: Workglop range. Workglop ships operate at 4 knots and clean surfaces between 20,000 and 35,000 square meters per hour. The first Workglop be launched late 2010.
III. Marine pollution control: Spillglop range (prototype called CATAMAR). These vessels work at 4 to 5 knots up to Beaufort force 5 to 6 included and clean a surface of 40,000 to 50,000 square meters in an hour. It collects up to 100 cubic meters of hydrocarbons per hour without emulsification and transfers them progressively into a bunker barge that follows it. A bunker barge rotation allows unlimited recovery capability.
About Ecoceane:
Ecoceane provides states, local governments and municipalities solutions to collect and store macro-waste and floating hydrocarbons offshore, near ports, beaches, estuaries, lakes, ponds, canals, rivers and more. Supported by OSEO Innovation and FEDER, the company specializes in marine pollution and improving the quality of water bodies. The Navy (CEPPOL) advised ECOCEANE in the development of CATAMAR.
Ecoceane participated in “Days of the Sea,” part of the “Grenelle of the Sea” organized by the French Ministry of Ecology. The company was founded in 2003, employs 30 people, including eight at the headquarters in Paris and about 20 in the shipyard Paimpol in Brittany. Through its network of agents, Ecoceane sees 85% of its turnover from exports. Recently Pierre-Armand Thomas, senior vice president of Technip, joined Ecoceane as director of international development for the oil and gas industry.
Ecoceane has many references in France and abroad (Australia, Uruguay, Madeira, Angola, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Turkey). Recently, the innovative French company has won new contracts with a range of cleaning and maintenance vessels in the ports and coastline: Rio, Singapore, Valencia, Preveza in Greece, and won the public bid for the city Havre. In 2009, Ecoceane has doubled its sales and invested 1.2 million EUR in research and development. More than 65 boats have already been sold since inception.
For more information, please contact:
ECOCEANE
Stéphane Berstein
Press Contact
Tel.: +33 6 67 31 47 13
E-mail: stephane.berstein@actine-strategies.com
Web: www.ecoceane.com
Eric Vial
President
Tel : +33 1 53 10 39 10
E-mail: e.vial@ecoceane.com
Web: www.ecoceance.com
or:
FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr
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