Over the past few weeks, Sigma Delta USA has received numerous inquiries from third parties expressing an urgent interest in obtaining information on the previous success that was enjoyed by our late Chairman of the Board, Dr. Alphonse SASSEN, in developing a proprietary product for specific application in oil spill clean up operations. In order to facilitate the expedited dissemination of this time sensitive information to a wider audience, we have elected to post this basic summary to our Internet website.
BACKGROUND
Long before the world became acutely aware of the negative health and long term environmental dangers posed by oil spills in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, the Ecuadorean Oriente area on the Western edge of he Amazon rainforest suffered major health and economic damage due to the serious degrading of the ecosystem in which they lived due to the uncontrolled oil exploration in the rainforest conducted by US oil giant Texaco-Chevron. For more recent information on the specifics of this situation, please refer to the Washington Post news story, dated 28 April 2009, which can be viewed using the link provided for this purpose immediately below.
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In summary, a poster child for the careless disregard for human health and environmental issues, during the period 1975 through 2006, Texaco-Chevron reportedly dumped in excess of twenty billion (20,000,000,000) gallons of toxic drilling by-products into local waterways, while simultaneously spilling more than seventeen million (17,000,000) gallons of crude oil.
Mining operations at the Rio Huaypetue gold mine in Peru. (Photo by R. Butler)
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Moreover, the ruthless clearing of access roads and other oil exploration and production activities served to literally destroy thousands of acres of rainforest land, leaving lands once regularly used for farming as large waste pits that are unable to sustain even rudimentary agricultural activities. This heavily documented degrading of the Oriente’s rainforest area has been particularly harmful to Ecuador’s Huaroni Indians, who are among the few remaining indigenous peoples on the planet still living a traditional lifestyle passed on over many hundreds of years of history.
In August 1992, this plight was shared by countless other thousands in South America as a rupture of a pipeline spilled more than two hundred seventy five thousand (275,000) gallons of oil into the Rio Napo river, which ran black for many days. The resulting impact of this specific event, which is only part of an entire systematic pollution regime, subsequently caused the countries of Ecuador, Peru and Brazil to declare national states of emergency.
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TRI-WASH LAUNDRY DETERGENT
Faced with an environmental disaster that seriously threatened both their lifestyle and economic condition, leaders of a number of Oriente located municipalities turned to Dr. Alphonse SASSEN of Sigma Delta SA in Ecuador for help. With three (3) doctorate degrees, to include two (2) in Chemistry, and long known as a champion of local Indian rights and charities, Dr. SASSEN’s initial goal was to help save the drinking water commonly shared by a number of local communities from toxic seepage entering the water table from polluted streams and rivers.
To accomplish this vital task, without making matters worse, Dr. SASSEN elected to develop a special reformulated version of his proprietary, enzyme based, TRI-WASH laundry detergent.


By addition of two (2) completely non toxic additives, Dr. SASSEN was not only successful in creating a human and Earth friendly modified TRI-WASH formulation that acted as an oil emulsifier, but which also acted to “herd” oil found in local waterways in concentrated spots where it could be quickly removed by various more traditional methodologies.


Moreover, the modified form of TRI-WASH that he created formed a temporary, non toxic coating on beaches and other sensitive resources that repelled future oil exposure for up to two (2) weeks after initial application.
FUNDING NEEDED TO PROCEED
While Dr. SASSEN unfortunately passed away in September 2008, his notes on his successful efforts in combating the oil spill related disaster in Ecuador remain intact and could be easily used by Sigma Delta USA as the basis for the rapid production of this same product here in North America on an expedited basis.
At a minimum, to accomplish this goal would require the temporary travel of Dr. SASSEN‘s principal laboratory assistant in Ecuador for over a fifteen (15) year period to the United States. It would also require the initial infusion of a small sum of grant, or loan, funding that would be used to establish production and distribution facilities that are deemed necessary to make this field proven oil spill product available in North America in sufficient quantities to make a definitive difference in the Gulf of Mexico clean up effort.
For more information on Dr. SASSEN’s previous success in saving the drinking water resources of the Huaroni people from toxic oil spill pollution, or any other aspect of his life long work to develop a family of environmentally sensitive, human health friendly chemical formulation products, please use the following contact links.
SIGMA DELTA USA sales@sigmadeltausa.com
DABOYS L.L.C. normanrambow@aol.com