Sentences with phrase «floating oil booms»

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Boom most often looks like huge, floating sandbags strung together in a line, and either absorbs oil or deflects it toward a collection point.

What this means is that boom, which is like a long tube of paper towels and used to contain and absorb oil floating on the surface of the water, is not going to work when this heavy dilbit crude oil sinks to the bottom of Lake Maumelle.

Floating booms prevent surface - level oil from moving into environmentally sensitive areas.