About celpur

The global use of petroleum products has both potential and real environmental problems. Restoration of water and land areas damaged by oil spills require extensive and costly efforts.

Business concept

  • The oil recovery briquettes, Celpur, are made from polyurethane, which is an industrial waste material that the companies pay a lot of money to get rid of. The polyurethane industrial waste is also an environmental hazard.
  • To manufacture a product, which can help tackle, both small and large oil spills.
  • To introduce the oil recovery product Celpur to the global market.
  • Our strategy is also, as far as possible, to even further develop the efficiency of the Celpur briquettes.

Market

There is a large demand for a product like Celpur. It has excellent absorption properties for petroleum products, it can be recycled and it is lightweight and therefore easy to transport which enables flexible usage. Today, there is no product of the kind on the market. We believe our product could be sold world wide, but we will begin to take preorders from Sweden and the Nordic- and Baltic Sea regions. Thereafter, we will address a larger market. To get an idea of the market, we have taken the oil spill in Bergen, Norway, in 2007 as an example and calculated the estimated consumption of briquettes needed for such an oil recovery.

Needs and cost for oil dispersal using Celpur in relation to the volume of the spill

During the incident in Bergen in 2007 about 370 ton oil leaked into the Nordic Sea. For the clearance using the Celpur oil recovery product, 460 ton briquettes would be needed. The amount corresponds to 19 fully loaded train wagons and the cost would be a few million euro. (for the CELPUR briquettes only). The cost can be compared to a similar oil recovery operation, the large spill outside of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, there the cargo ship Fu Shan Hai shipwrecked in 2003. Until now the cost is approximately €10 million. Barely 50 percent of the oil spill has been dispersed (500-600 ton)

Customers

  • The oil industry
  • Companies and other facilities handling petroleum products, such as ports, refineries and depots for aerospace and other fuels.
  • Authorities such as the Fire Authority, Coast Guard and such. Also, municipalities and country councils are examples of another customer group.
  • International organizations and associations, like the UN institution, World Maritime organization and the shipping industry are other examples of possible target groups.

Competition

Currently, drainage arrangements, oil recovery skimmers and several of other recovery products handle oil spills in water. However, existing methods have shown to be both inefficient and cumbersome. As a result time usually runs out before the clearance has been completed, instead the oil floats ashore, sinks or dissolve in the water - leading to large environmental catastrophes.