Yes we're currently uh we're doing in
situ burn tests to support the U . S .
Coast Guard Research and Development
Center . We have folks from E . P . A .
As well as the U . S . Coast Guard
atlantic and pacific strike teams here .
We're we're monitoring uh the
combustion efficiencies and burn
efficiencies for the in situ burning of
crude oil . Mhm . So we are measuring
emissions using an unmanned aircraft
system or otherwise known as a drone .
And we're trying to quantify the
emissions that come off of the burning
oil . It's an acceptable environmental
solution to burn oil and there's a
spill to prevent further ecological
damage . This is just one of the
practices they use for cleaning up oil
spills and other hazards quite frankly .
And so we're just trying to understand
how the emissions amount and how
to do it more cleanly . Well . Carl's a
great unique facility because it's one
of probably only two in the country in
which this kind of work can be done .
And so these guys are really well
experienced . They have complementary
skills that we just don't have in terms
of handling and dealing with the oil
and actually combusting it etcetera .
So it's been a great partnership , I
think this is our fifth or sixth time
here in the last several years . So E .
P . A . Likes to monitor any kind of
any kind of I . S . B . Events that go
on to make sure that anybody downstream
is not getting over exposed to the off
gasses basically . And so what we're
doing here is just testing newer
equipment using the drone to carry the
gas . Modern equipments , kind of a new
approach for them . Um , and we're just
basically trying to compare that to the
strike team's ground sensors .
Mhm .