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Lamor (Larsen Marine Oil Recovery) Corporation – Corporate Report
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Your Partner in Oil Spill Response
Lamor (Larsen Marine Oil Recovery) Corporation offers solutions for optimal oil spill response and recovery. With offices, staff and equipment strategically located around the world, Lamor is able to deploy to the scene rapidly and effectively to best serve the environmental needs of corporations, the public and ecosystems.
The company develops, manufactures, and supplies best available technology (BAT) oil spill recovery equipment and services. Included in its portfolio of solutions, Lamor offers contingency planning, risk assessments, equipment maintenance and service coupled with training.
Committed to Oil Spill Response, Recovery and Clean-up Operations Worldwide
Lamor Corporation, a family business based in Finland was founded in 1982. The company has strategically located its offices in the UK, US and China and has joint ventures in Colombia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Oman, Russia and the UAE. Lamor’s agent and distributor network covers more than 90 countries. Lamor Slickbar (Lamor’s 100 %-owned subsidiary) was founded in 1960. We provide expertise coupled with solutions that protect the environment and our ecosystems. Our in-depth knowledge and investment in technologically advanced oil clean-up response equipment has a proven track record in all scenarios and climatic conditions.
In addition to our own Lamor brand, we represent the following global brands; Slickbar, Lori, GT and Tarwell. Our patented and certified solutions guarantee reliable and efficient oil recovery operations in any environment; land spill cleanup, port and marina service, shoreline cleanup, near shore oil recovery, offshore oil spill response, salvage operations, subsea services, wreck oil removal, arctic oil spill response on the ice, in broken ice and under the ice.
Quality with Accreditation
All our operations are accredited by the Nautical Institute in accordance with MCA and DTI certified training standards. We provide all Internation Maritime Organization (IMO) training courses as well as tailored training programmes in accordance with our customers’ specific needs.
We are ISO 9001 certified, in addition to this, equipment are individually capacity certified at our own R&D and testing facilities in accordance with ASTM and MAX standards that are inspected and certified by Bureau Veritas.
Lamor has always maintained and valued customer satisfaction as the single most important factor in the development of the company’s activities. Internal quality control standards are continuously updated and developed to exceed customer expectations.
The driving force for initiating the process of certifying our Management System in accordance with ISO 9001:2000, through Bureau Veritas, was an internal need to define our processes and make them even more effective in order to meet our customers’ requirements in a cost efficient and reliable way.
The ISO 9001:2000 standard represents a tried and tested framework for taking a systematic approach to managing an organiSation’s processes, ensuring manufacturing and delivery of products sustainably and responsibly. The process certification initiated by Lamor benefited from the existing internal quality management system that drew upon the ISO standard requirements. This meant that a big part of the certification process was to document the already existing procedures within Lamor.
All skimmers and oil transfer pumps are capacity tested. Oil recovery vessels, barges and workboats are classified depending on their end usage by Nordic Boat Building Standards, RINA, Russian Maritime and River Register, Lloyds Register of Shipping and other leading authorities.
Working Together with a Common Purpose
We have extensive experience in co-operation with governmental agencies worldwide including, for example, Swedish Coastguard, North American authorities and representative agencies, Russian authorities and ministries, EU environmental administrations, European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), Chinese governmental and maritime departments and Middle Eastern environmental and representative agencies in several countries.
Members of Lamor Response Team (LRT) have acted as on scene commanders at numerous oil spill incidents and the LRT hasextensive managerial knowledge and expertise of oil spill accidents in various environments and weather conditions such as offshore, on land, arctic and desert climate.
Since the early 1980s, Lamor has carried out thorough tests together with The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), a governmental authority, in the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia during harsh winter conditions in order to conduct tests to maximise efficiency, durability and dependability of Lamor’s oil recovery equipment. Hence, Lamor oil recovery equipment is developed to perform in the extremes of the Nordic winters and this has resulted in the expansion of a robust and dependable equipment portfolio.
The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF) at the Norwegian Institute of Technology test reports from Trondheim in 2007 and Svalbard in 2008 show that the Lamor Oil Recovery Bucket has excellent ice handling and no free water content in recovered oil. The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia that yearly supports the development of approx. 2,000 Norwegian and overseas companies via its research and development activities.
Oil Exploration Continues
Globally, the increase in demand for oil continues. That said, companies, organisations and governments have become proactively involved in adopting safeguards. Stricter legislation has been imposed by governments and companies are doing more to ensure that they have OSR equipment and trained people to respond efficiently and effectively should the need arise.
Exploration and oil extrapolation in the Arctic Ocean is surging ahead and the climatic conditions can be brutal in that region. The sub-zero temperatures, hurricane-force winds, reduced visibility during the prolonged winter darkness, along with high 10-30-foot seas, certainly makes any clean-up operation challenging but not impossible for us at Lamor. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), estimates that the Arctic Ocean holds up to 19 billion barrels of oil and up to 74 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Universal Approach and Training
At Lamor we employ a universal approach to oil spill response and preparedness because every oil spill clean-up operation has its challenges to which we need to adapt and target with strategic precision. Legislation all around the world is getting stricter as oil exploration and transport increases. There are several NGOs, governmental agencies and private companies who are engaged in a dialogue to heighten awareness and garner increased commitments in oil spill response equipment and solutions.
That said, we need to ensure that we continuously invest in training, contingency planning, equipment coupled with adhering to implemented laws in oil exploration, extrapolation and transport. Accidents happen, but we are responsible to minimise them by investing in preparedness and response. We are accountable to ensure the safety of our environment, eco-systems and future generations by reducing risks and investing appropriately for the continued safety of our planet and mankind. This is not a choice, but a socially responsible manner of conducting sustainable business operations.
We offer customers and governmental agencies that are responsible for oil spill response, monitoring and control a three-level fully accredited training programme mandated by the UN’s IMO. Based on our hands-on experience, we have, together with our partners at the IMO and the Nautical Institute in the UK, developed training programmes that can be arranged in accordance with the local contingency plans at the customer’s site.
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