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Le 22/05/2025
Comissioning of oil spill response equipment, Dakar, Senegal
One of our experts recently travelled to Senegal 🇸🇳 for the commissioning of a custom-made containerized system designed for pollution response. This tailored equipment package includes:
✔️ Hydraulically powered boom reels
✔️ Brush skimming system
✔️ Temporary floating storage tanks
✔️ 350 m of booms
🙏 A big thank you to Société Africaine de Raffinage for their trust, and to our long-time Spanish partner EXPANDI 🇪🇸 with whom we've been collaborating for over 20 years!
Le 17/10/2024
Exercise POLMAR plan, Pornic, France
🌊📢For several years now, Le Floch Dépollution has held a number of POLMAR-Terre contracts. In this context, we were asked by the DDTM of Loire-Atlantique to take part in an exercise that took place on October 1, 2024 in Pornic, during which we helped deploy a containment boom on land and clean it up with a high-pressure cleaner.
🎯 Organizing this type of exercise is essential for assessing response capabilities and, in this specific case, coordinating operations between public and private partners and thus ensuring a rapid response and effective management of response operations during accidental pollution incidents.
Le 23/09/2024
Rehabiliation of Ouessant's landfill, France
🎥🎬We would like to thank the French Biodiversity Agency for producing this film on the experimental worksite to rehabilitate the Bouge Pep of Ouessant landfill, which retraces the progress of this exceptional challenge! This operation will undoubtedly remain one of our company's emblematic operations, as well as an enriching personal and professional experience for each and every one of us!
Congratulations once again to our team, who worked in a very special context, but who, as usual, were able to demonstrate their adaptability, flexibility and, above all, professionalism.
Le 18/07/2024
Focus on the leachate treatment worksite at SMPF, Saint-Fromond, France
Many thanks 🙏 to Barbara Boisnard and Cayola Médias for the article published in the specialist magazine Mat Environnement, highlighting our leachate treatment worksite located at SYNDICAT MIXTE DU POINT FORT with the installation of a tailor-made treatment combining reverse osmosis filtration and evapo-concentration technology, enabling us to adapt to the site's constraints and issues.
Le 10/06/2024
Design and installation of oil spill response booms and tidal compensators, France
We would like to thank ALPHA Nautique Services for trusting us to take part in this project, for which we :
👉 custom-designed the rails and tidal compensators
👉 supplied the anti-pollution boom
👉 provided assistance with the installation of the system.
The rail and tide compensator system enables the boom deployed between the rails to follow the movements of the water and differences in water level over significant heights.
Le 24/04/2024
Visit with ITOPF and IOPC Funds in London
We were delighted to visit London in April, to exchange views with ITOPF on the various pollution incidents we have worked on together (over 20 years of partnership!), and to meet new recruits. We were also able to meet the IOPC Funds, which was also involved in the MT Princess Empress spill in the Philippines in 2023, on which we intervened.
Le 09/04/2024
Supply of containerized and motorized reels
We have just completed the production of 2 custom-made motorized (thermal and electric) and containerized reels for our customer EUROSORB.
These reels will enable the storage and deployment of several hundred meters of anti-pollution boom.
👉 Containerization protects the reel and facilitates storage and handling in port areas, warehouses etc.
👉 Boom deployment and reeling procedures are made easier for operators thanks to the reel's motorization, and enable faster reaction in the event of an oil spill.
Don't hesitate to contact us - we'll adapt to YOUR needs!
Le 03/01/2024
Sludge dredging and dewatering, France
Le Floch Dépollution also offers sludge treatment services. In December, we intervened in Cleppé (42), France for a sludge dredging and dewatering operation as part of the rehabilitation of a rainwater retention basin.
👉Our TRUXOR amphibious machine was mobilized for the dredging/pumping operation,
👉The sludge was then transferred to our mobile dewatering unit for dewatering.
🙏 We would like to thank COLAS and Vinci Autoroutes for placing their trust in us for these operations.
Le 20/11/2023
Training oil spill response,New-Caledonia
Two of our experts travelled to 🇳🇨 New Caledonia from November 7 to 10, 2023 to carry out theoretical and practical training for the deployment of oil spill response equipment for SLN - Le Nickel personnel.
This equipment, some of which was designed specifically for SLN's needs, was supplied via our local partner Speed Marine :
- 400 m of containment boom
- Boom storage trailers with reel and hydraulic power pack
- Self-supporting tanks
- Trailers with storage box containing skimmers, pumps and hoses
🎯The program of this training included :
📚 Theoretical part with presentation of equipment and response strategies depending on the nature of the pollution,
🛠 A practical session with exercises for containment and recovery of the pollutant along the quay, trawling tests and maneuvering with the boom, as well as pump and boom maintenance.
🙏We would like to thank the SLN teams for their hospitality and motivation throughout this training course.
Le 16/11/2023
Technical assistance, Pointe-Noire, Congo
Our company has been working for several months with the Port Autonome de Pointe-Noire as part of the Technical Assistance to the QSSE Department project. We are collaborating with ANTEA and supervising the part concerning pollution control at sea and on land.
Le 16/10/2023
Pollutec 2023 exhibition, Lyon, France
We are delighted to have taken part in this edition, which was a success for Le Floch Dépollution and in particular for the reverse osmosis water treatment activity! 🙏 Thank you to all our visitors for a very busy week for our team!
Le 05/07/2023
Intervention MT Princess Empress, Philippines
Le Floch Dépollution is proud to have been appointed by The Shipowners' Club to conduct shoreline clean-up operations following the oil spill of the MT Princess Empress in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. Our team was deployed on March 9th, 2023 in Mindoro and Semirara Islands.
Different types of shorelines have been affected (mangroves, rocky and sandy shores) which will require the deployment of specific techniques in which our company is specialized in. These operations represent a logistical challenge as the islands impacted are remote areas with limited access that our team has already experienced in the past.
We thank The Shipowners' Club for their trust by appointing us and ITOPF for recommending us to take on this new challenge and will deploy our best efforts as usual to help the Philippines face this spill.
More information here : https://www.princessempressinformationcentre.com/
Le 11/01/2023
Supply of oil spill equipment, HAROPA Ports
Le Floch Dépollution also supply tailor-made oil spill equipments such as containerized boom reels. We are proud to have supplied 6 systems to the Port of Le Havre, France in December 2022. Those 20’ feet containers include a boom reel hydraulically driven that can store 200 m of MultiPurpose Boom 1500 each.
Le 21/12/2022
Rehabilitation of a landfill on the island of Ouessant
Very nice article on the cleanup operations 🌊♻️ we conducted on the Bouge Pep landfill on the island of #Ouessant this year, an exceptional challenge that our teams were able to meet! 👏👏
Le 21/11/2022
Soil remediation, French Guyana
Last October, we completed one of our operations for the EDF Pariacabo thermal power plant in Kourou. Several operations were carried out there:
♻️ Biological treatment of soils contaminated by hydrocarbons using the biopile technique,
👷♂️Rehabilitation/sealing of the treatment area by combining a geotextile protection and a geomembrane (extrusion weldings).
We also intervened for the Dégrad-des-Cannes plant from 2018 to 2019 for the same problem. Two types of treatment were then carried out:
♻️ Treatment of the least contaminated soils by biopile
👷♂️ Treatment of the most contaminated soils with calcium oxide
This marks the end of our operations for EDF in this beautiful region! 🦜🌴 Mèrsi Lagwiyan 🦎🚀!
Le 14/11/2022
The 9th Regional Conference of the GI WACAF - Accra, Ghana
We are very pleased to have been able to participate in the 9th Regional Conference of the GI WACAF which took place from 7th to 10th November 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The event was a great success and we would like to thank the organizers (Ipieca & International Maritime Organization) for their support in organizing and delivering the workshops and technical demonstrations.
Le 30/07/2022
Le Floch Dépollution Corporate Video 2022
What do you do at Le Floch Dépollution? Many people ask us this question. We think there is no better way than pictures and videos to explain!
Le 04/07/2022
Clean-up operations of local ports, France
Le Floch Dépollution made an intervention during 5 weeks on the ports of Rosmeur, Port Rhu and Tréboul of the city of Douarnenez, France.
In total, 27 tons of waste lying on the seabed of these harbor areas have been collected!!! Among them, a lot of tires, bicycles, chairs, fishing traps and lures, pieces of nets, bottles etc...
The objective of these operations being to avoid the fragmentation of waste into micro particles of plastic and other materials that represent a source of pollution for sediments, water and living resources and thus preserve marine biodiversity.
We thank the Parc Naturel Matin d'Iroise and Office français de la biodiversité for their trust.
Le 09/05/2022
Interspill 2022 Exhibition, Amsterdam
Le Floch Dépollution will attend the Interspill 2022 Exhibition at RAI Amsterdam from 21st to 23rd June. Visit our stand C59!
Le 14/04/2022
Clean-up operations in local ports, France
The Parc Naturel Marin d'Iroise has once again commissioned the company Le Floch Dépollution to collect underwater macro waste, in Lanildut (from March 29 to April 1st, 2022).
These operations allowed us once again to recover more than 3 tons of waste (tires, nets, batteries).
Le 02/12/2021
Review of the shoreline clean-up operations - MV Wakashio oil spill, Mauritius
Take a look at our video of the clean-up operations!
Le 29/10/2021
Supply of oil spill equipment
We recently supplied oil spill equipment intended to equip a foreign pattroller including :
Containerizes hydraulic boom reel with 200 m of fence boom
Containerized dispersant spraying lance system
Le 29/09/2021
Cleaning of a pond, Combrit, France
Our company made an intervention in the Botanical Park of Cornouaille to carry out the cleaning of the pond with our amphibious machine Truxor. We thank the Park for trusting us to carry out this intervention.
13/07/2021
Supply of dispersant spraying systems
We thank Total E&P Angola for trusting us again for the supply of 6 complete dispersant spraying systems (ramps, powerpack, hoses etc.).
We offer standard systems but we also provide tailor-made systems to meet to your specific requirements, contact us for more info!
16/03/2021
Wakashio - Mauritius 2020/2021
The grounding of the bulk carrier MV Wakashio in july 2020, which spilled more than 1 000 tons of oil, highly impacted the south-east mauritian shoreline.
An unprecedented disaster impacting a region characterized by its diversity and significant ecological wealth (coral reefs, mangroves, endemic species, etc.)...
Le 09/09/2021
Label "Used by French Armed Forces"
Ou company is honoured to have been awarded the label “used by French armed forces” for the our dispersant spraying system SPK by the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
Le 20/08/2021
Presentation of a conveyor for collection of sargassum
Our company designed a new equipment : the conveyor for the collection of sargassum. A presentation was made on August 5th, 2021 on the beahc Etang Buisson at Saint-François, Guadeloupe.
See our section dedicated to sargassum
30/06/2021
Clean-up operations in local ports, France
The Parc Naturel Marin d'Iroise has once again commissioned the company Le Floch Dépollution to collect underwater macro waste, in Douarnenez (from June 14 to 18, 2021) and in Le Conquet (from June 21 to 23, 2021) .
These operations allowed us once again to recover a lot of waste (tires, nets, batteries). At the port of Rosmeur in Douarnenez, our team made an unusual discovery: an 8m torpedo containing 350 kg of explosives!
14/05/2020
CSL Virginia / Ulysse - France - 2018/2019
One year ago, our teams ended the cleaning operations in the South of France of the pollution caused by the collision of the ships CSL Virginia and Ulysse.
06/03/2020
Sargassum Caribbean Project
Our company made an intervention in Guadeloupe for :
- the deployment of boom to protect areas from sargassum and deflect the sargassum
- the screening/beach cleaning of areas impacted by sargassum in Sainte-Anne and Saint-François.
19/02/2020
Oil Spill - Port of Roscoff
Le Floch Dépollution made an intervention during 3 days this february for the cleaning of docks located in the Port of Roscoff, France following an accidental spill. Our team made the following operations :
deployment of sorbent booms;
high pressure cleaning, pumping and rinsing operations;
recovery of the polluted sorbents deployed by the municipalitie's agents;
storage and transfer of waste.
Le 11/12/2019
L'ERIKA, 20 ans déjà...
On December 12th, 1999, the tanker Erika broke in two in Southern Brittany causing an oil spill that will be devastating for our coasts. The following video is an overview of the work carried out by our teams during this disaster whose sad memories still intact 20 years later...
03/12/2019
CEDRE Technical Information Day
We would like to thank the CEDRE for inviting us as a speaker for the one-day conference organised in Brest whose theme was "The evolution of oil spill response : international situation, work of CEDRE and its partners in the field, trends and expectations for the future in France".
We have been asked by CEDRE to make an intervention as a speaker on the theme "Shoreline response : Response strategy". Our experience in the management of oil spills for more than 50 years has enabled us to make a retrospective of the pollutions on which Le Floch Depollution has intervened and thus be able to make an assessment on the developments and evolutions in this area.
05/08/2019
Collection of marine debris - Camaret sur Mer, France
Le Floch Dépollution has been mandated by the Parc Naturel Marin d'Iroise to collect the marine debris at the Port of Camaret sur Mer. This intervention took place from July 1 to 5, 2019, a little more than 50 m3 of waste (tires, plastics, glass etc.) were collected and evacuated.
01/07/2019
Opération de nettoyage des macrodéchets - Morgat/Camaret sur mer
Le Floch Dépollution made an intervention from October 2 to 5th, 2018 to collect the macrowaste on the municipalities of Morgat (Porzh Priog, Porzh Tarz et Porzh Dinn) and Camaret sur Mer (Aud Veur). The total amount of waste collected was approx. 10m3 (plastics and scrap metal).
02/10/2018
Supply and deployment of a containment boom - Ploërmel, France
Earlier this year, a tender has been issued on behalf of the municipality of Ploërmel (France) for the supply of a containment boom for the Lac au Duc which suffers from a strong eutrophication (cyanobacteria). The containment boom is used as a removable solution to isolate and protect the bathing area of this artificial lake for the summer period.
LFD has been awarded this contract which consisted in :
Supplying approx. 200 m of inflatable skirted boom stored on a trailer
Installing the containment system before the opening of the bathing area
Carrying maintenance visit during the summer period
Disassembling/cleaning of the boom before storage during the winter period
The boom has successfully been implemented in June 2018.
19/09/2018
Intervention Plouénan, France
Notre société est intervenue en mai 2018 suite une fuite de fuel domestique sur la commune de Plouénan (29).
Le polluant déversé (volume estimé entre 200 et 500 litres) a poursuivi son chemin à travers le réseau d’eau pluvial, contaminant un fossé, puis un ruisseau pour finalement atteindre la rivière l’Horn (présence d’une pisciculture en aval du déversement).
LE FLOCH DEPOLLUTION a été mandaté afin de procéder au nettoyage des résidus de fuel domestique sur l’Horn.
Une intervention en 3 phases a été effectuée :
Mise en place d’un dispositif de confinement (barrages absorbants etc.);
Rinçage (récupération des accumulations de fioul) + Collecte et traitement des déchets (végétaux souillés et effluents liquides);
Passage hebdomadaire pour suivi et entretien des dispositifs de confinement, collecte et le traitement des déchets absorbants, démobilisation des équipements.
18/05/2018
Containment system - SARA Martinique
Our team made an intervention in Martinique from 4 to 19 march 2018 for the last installation of our contract with the SARA Refinery which included the construction and implementation of a containment system (permanent booms and tidal compensators).
26/03/2018
Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill
2017 was the 50th anniversary of the Torrey Canyon oil spill, this year is the 40th tragic anniversary of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill which occured in 1978.
You will find below various links on press releases related to this event which was one our first interventions.
Le 23/03/2018
Dépollution industrielle - Revue l'Eau, l'Industrie, les Nuisances
Take a look at the February issue of the french magazine "l'Eau, l'Industrie, les Nuisances" which main topic is "decontamination of soil and groundwater : reducing the time needed and limiting costs" and find the contribution of our CEO Mr Vanbaelinghem on this matter.
07/03/2018
Salon Interspill 2018
The oil spill response department will attend the Interspill exhibition which will be held in London from 13th to 15th March 2018. Visit our booth W360!
06/02/2018
Soil decontamination - Pornic, France
In 2013 we've been awarded a contract on behalf of SELA (Société Equipement de Loire-Atlantique) for decontamination operations which included the treatment and disposal of polluted land (60 000 m3). It has been agreed that a part of this work would be achieved later. The last operations have been carried out from October to November 2017 for a volume of about 1 500 m².
20/12/2017
Recovery of sargassum seaweed
Our team is currently working on a project funded by ADEME (The French Environment and Energy Management Agency) for the study of sargassum seaweed recovery for the manufacture of bio-sourced plastics.
Brown sargassum seaweed represent a real scourge for Guadeloupe and Martinique, which have been suffering massive strandings of these seaweeds on their shores for several years. These have many negative effects on human health, the environment and the local economy.
However this seaweeds are not initially toxic, but once beached, they enter the decomposition phase and produce significant releases of gas that can cause olfactory nuisance and health problems.
Therefore, ADEME launched a call for project which goal is to find viable solutions for the valorization of this material.
04/08/2017
GI WACAF National Workshop, Pointe-Noire, Congo
One consultant from Le Floch Dépollution was assigned by IMO to conduct a workshop along with a technical adviser from ITOPF on waste management during an oil spill incident within the framework of the GI WACAF project.
Two days were dedicated to the presentation of a waste management plan.
An exercice was carried out the alst day to test the knowledge of the participants who were asked to develop their own waste management plan in a given situation.
Representatives from National Authorities as well as others maritimes services, oil companies (Total, Eni, Perenco) and NGOs assisted to this workshop which was held in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo from 27-29 June 2017.
The activity report will be available soon on the GI WACAF website.
Le 12/07/2017
Containment system, French Guyana & Guadeloupe
The SARA refinery has various depots for which oils are conveyed through wharves located in Martinique, French Guyana and Guadeloupe.
Le Floch Dépollution is in charge of the construction and implementation of a containment system (permanent booms and tidal compensators) to prevent from any oil spill that could occur on these wharves.
French Guyana - Dégrad Des Cannes & Kourou : Intervention from 13 to 22 March 2017
Guadeloupe - Jarry ; Intervention from 29 May to 3 June 2017
29/06/2017
Oil Spill Response Training POLMAR
Our company was selected by the Centre de Valorisation des Ressources Humaines of Nantes (CVRH) to realise a training on repair techniques of booms and storage tanks fabrics.
This training was aimed to technical staff of POLMAR centres in charge of maintenance and repair of oil spill equipment.
After completing this training, the trainees were able to make repairs on different kind of fabrics on booms and storage tanks.
16/05/2017
Assistance technique Brest, France
Le Floch Dépollution has been contacted in the beggining of April to carry out the following operations in the port of Brest, France during the maintenance operation of the cargo ship MV CAPE MARIA :
Set-up of oil containment system around the stern of the cargo
Technical assistance during maintenance period
Dismantling of containment system, clean-up equipment operation and waste treatment
20/04/2017
Projet MARENDA
The MARENDA Project in which Le Floch Dépollution has been involved since January 2016 was achieved in March 2017 by trainings on specific topics adapted to each country (Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria etc.).
28/03/2017
50 YEARS
Le Floch Dépollution celebrates this year it's 50th anniversary. Our company was created during the first oil spill of the Torrey Canyon in 1967.
20/12/2016
Technical assistance, Angola
Le Floch Dépollution was assigned by Total E&P Angola with a mission of technical support, detailed inventory and maintenance of the oil spill response equipment for a duration of 2 weeks in december 2016.
15/12/2016
Technical assistance, Congo
Le Floch Dépollution made an intervention on behalf of the companies ILOGS and SEAS within the framework of dredging works for the deepening of an access channel in the Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire, Congo.
This mission was carried out over a period of 1 month, from mid-november to mid-december 2016, during which the following operations was achieved :
Deployment of a containment boom
Oil pumping and skimming operations
Creation and installation of a decanting system
25/10/2016
Supply of oil spill response equipment
Le Floch Dépollution delivered oil spill response equipment to the shipbuilder OCEA for which our team carried out the commissioning/training.
One spraying dispersant system and 200m of containment boom on containerized reel have been delivered for the Senegalese patroller FOULADOU.
14/10/2016
MARENDA Project, Côte d'Ivoire
Le Floch Dépollution is still involved in the MARENDA Project which aim at improving data management and exchange in and between ports and to improve emergency response capacity against maritime pollution in five countries of Western and Central Africa.
In this context, 2 consultants from our maritime service participated in this seminar which was held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from September 28th to October 7th, 2016 to conduct this training divided in two phases :
- The first phase consisted in providing a theoretical training on oil spill response for the various authorities in charge of such pollutions (Administrations, local authorities and industrials)
- The second phase included a table-top exercise of crisis management, to evaluate their readiness in a specific simulation scenario
The participants were able to test their new national contingency plan and thus determine the actions to undertake to improve their oil spill response capabilities.
28/06/2016
Oil Spill Response Ste Anne sur Brivet, France
Our maritim service has been mobilised for the clean-up operations following the oil leak which occurred on April 5th in Saint-Anne-sur-Brivet (Loire-Atlantique) from the Donges-Vern-sur-Seiche pipeline.
These operations were carried out on on two different environment :
- Urban area :
Pumping, dredging, cleaning of the entire residential area pipeing system
Clean-up, rinsing and maintenance of ditches
- Natural area :
Skimming operations on two ponds and nearby watercourses for pollutant recovery
Depollution of wet meadows, willows and the different contaminated banks located on the site
Rehabilation of affected areas at the end of clean-up operations
14/03/2016
Collection of macrowaste, Molène, France
Le Floch Dépollution was assigned by The Iroise Marine Natural Park (Parc Naturel Marin d' Iroise) the collection of macro-waste on islands Lédénez Vraz and Lédénez Vihan, in the archipelago of Molène, Brittany, France.
Our Maritime Department collected 15 m3 of waste that have been transferred on the continent in a appropriate aste treatment center.
05/02/2016
Projet MARENDA
Our Maritime department is currently involved in the MARENDA project which has been developed by the following partners : ACP, CETMAR, World Maritime University and European Union.
The main aim of the Programme is to support development in specific areas of maritime transport in Africa, with focus on maritime safety in Western and Central African countries.
One of the main objective is the establishment of emergency response mechanisms against maritime environment pollution.
The main purpose is to support national authorities (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana &Nigeria) and regional coordination bodies responsible for the maritime transport sector in planning and implementation of strategy and actions on marine environment protection and emergency response in coastal waters and port basins.
Two trainers from Le Floch Dépollution carried out a mission in the Port of Dakar, Senegal, from 10th to 21sdt January 2016 with 2 distinct purposes :
The training of national authorities to oil spill response
The achievement of a table-top exercise for crisis management in case of oil spill
Le 10/01/2016
Supply of oil spill response equipment, French Navy
Le Floch Dépollution was awarded a contract by the French Navy for the supply of 3 mobiles dispersant spraying systems.
The commissioning took place on November 30th, 2015 in our facilities with CEPPOL representatives (Centre of Pratical Expertise in Pollution Response).