About

Garner Environmental Services, Inc. (Garner) established in 1981, is a full-service environmental company offering emergency response for oil spills and hazardous materials, soil remediation, vacuum truck services, roll-off equipment rental and transportation, as well as disaster response for natural and man-made disasters. Other services offered are training, industrial hygiene consultation, cleaning services for oil and chemical storage tanks, retention ponds, pipelines, storm drains and sewers lines, vessels drilling rigs, piers, wharves, docks, and other harbor facilities. In addition to the services mentioned above, Garner also offers chandler services and product supplies for production and drilling platforms, offshore and inshore vessels and the petrochemical industry.

Garner brings over 500 cumulative years of experience and expertise to the oil and chemical industry in these specialized fields of endeavor. Garner Environmental is a certified Oil Spill Response Organization (OSRO), by the United States Coast Guard and as a Discharge Cleanup Organization (DCO) by the Texas General Land Office as related to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

Garner has provided personnel, equipment, supplies, and expertise to effect cleanup and containment for every major oil spill incident in the Gulf Coast region for the past 15 years.

Mission Statement

By supplying the customer with experienced personnel, timely services, quality supplies, and durable equipment, Garner Environmental works to reach its goal to be the pre-eminent industrial contracting firm for safety, service, and efficiency within the Emergency Spill Response, Environmental Remediation and Industrial Services industries. Garner pledges to respond to each customer’s call for assistance in a safe, timely, and cost effective fashion.

Garner Environmental commits to maintaining impeccable professional and ethical standards in all business dealings. Garner negotiates in good faith with the intent of fostering long-term, mutually beneficial relations with customers, principals, employees, and suppliers.

Our Experience

Practical field experience coupled with superior equipment enable Garner to dispatch an appropriate response to any emergency within minutes of the call. Garner is quick to mitigate the hazard, i.e. contain and prevent the spread of material into the surrounding environment, and therefore, limiting expense and liability for the client. Each Garner responder is well-disciplined in proper material handling, communications, safety, and quality awareness.

1993

Date: January
Type: Ship Collision & Spill
Location: Puerto Rico
Gallons: 1,500,000

Date: March
Type: Ship Collision & Spill
Location: Tampa,FL
Gallons: 800,000

 

1994

Date: October
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Gallons: 3,000,000

Date: November
Type: Floods & Multiple Pipeline Spills
Location: Houston Ship Channel
Gallons: 10,000,000

 

1995

Date: September
Type: Refinery Tank Overfill
Location: Pasadena, TX
Gallons: 900,000

Date: August
Type: Chemical Spill
Location: Savanna, GA
Gallons: 1,500,000

Date: November
Type: Barge Spill
Location: Rhode Island
Gallons: 1,500,000

 

1996

Date: February
Type: Ship Collision & Spill
Location: Baytown, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: March
Type: Bunker Oil Barge Spill
Location: Galveston, TX
Gallons: 5,700,000

Date: July
Type: Bunker Oil Barge Spill
Location: Houston Ship Channel
Gallons: 3,200,000

Date: July
Type: Gasoline Pipeline Spill
Location: Gramercy, LA
Gallons: 1,200,000

Date: September
Type: Ship Collision & Spill
Location: Portland, MA
Gallons: 1,300,000

 

1997

Date: March
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: So. Houston, TX
Gallons: 2,650,000

Date: June
Type: Plant Explosion & Clean up & Decon
Location: Deer Park, TX
Gallons: 3,400,000

Date: August
Type: Crude Oil from Well Blowout
Location: Leesville, LA
Gallons: 7,200,000

 

1998

Date: December
Type: Phenol Spill in Refinery
Location: Deer Park, TX
Gallons: 1,200,000

 

1999

Date: May
Type: Semiconductor Fire & Chemical Spill
Location: Austin, TX
Gallons: 2,000,000

Date: November
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Collins, MS
Gallons: 6,000,000

 

2000

Date: January
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Bolivia
Gallons: 20,000,000

Date: March
Type: Gasoline Pipeline Spill
Location: Greenville, TX
Gallons: 3,000,000

Date: December
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Ecuador
Gallons: 500,000

 

2001

Date: May
Type: Semiconductor Fire & Chemical Spill
Location: Austin, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: July
Type: Plant Explosion, Cleanup & Decon
Location: Three Rivers, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: September
Type: Ship Collision
Location: Houston Ship Channel
Gallons: 3,000,000

 

2002

Date: April
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Lafitte, LA
Gallons: 6,000,000

 

2003

Date: January
Type: Barge Spill
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: June
Type: Plant Explosion, Cleanup & Decon
Location: Pasadena, TX
Gallons: 1,500,000

 

2004

Date: March
Type: Warehouse Fire and Chemical Spill
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 3,000,000

Date: July
Type: Plant Explosion, Clean up & Decon
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: August
Type: Ship Collision
Location: Pt. Neches, TX
Gallons: 1,200,000

Date: November
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: La Marque, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: December
Type: Ship Collision
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Gallons: 1,100,000

 

2005

Date: March
Type: Refinery Explosion
Location: Texas City, TX
Gallons: 2,000,000

Date: April
Type: Chemical Warehouse Fire
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 1,200,000

Date: September
Type: Storage Tank Failure
Location: Chalmette, LA
Gallons: 10,000,000

2006

Date: April
Type: Storage Tank Failure
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Gallons: 1,000,000

Date: May
Type: Storage Tank Failure
Location: Lake Charles, LA
Gallons: 1,200,000

2007

Date: September
Type: Industrial Spill
Location: Pasadena, TX
Gallons: 100,000

2008

Date: August
Type: Industrial Spill
Location: Pasadena, TX
Gallons: 200,000

Date: September
Type: Storage Tank Spill
Location: Anahuac, TX
Gallons: 200,000

Date: September
Type: Power Provider Spills
Location: Southeast TX
Gallons: 150,000

2009

Date: September
Type: Ship Collision
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 25,000

2010

Date: January
Type: Ship Collision
Location: Port Arthur, TX
Gallons: 500,000

Date: February
Type: Capsized Tug
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 1,000

Date: April
Type: Well Blow Out
Location: Gulf of Mexico
Gallons: 3,000,000+

Date: June
Type: Chemical Warehouse Fire
Location: Stafford, TX
Gallons: 3,000

Date: July
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Gallons: 1,000,000

2011

Date: January
Type: Tank Release/Animal Fat
Location: Houston, TX
Gallons: 250,000

Date: July
Type: Crude Oil Pipeline Spill
Location: Billings, MT
Gallons: 1,000

2012

Date:  August
Type:  Terminal Cleanup/ Demolition
Location:  Braithwaite, LA
Gallons:  75,000 Crude Oil; 50,000 Hazmat

2013

Date: August
Type: Tanker Collision
Location: Hermosillo, MX
Gallons: 5,000 Sodium Cyanide

2014

Date: March
Type: Barge Collision
Location: Galveston, TX
Gallons: 168,000

Date: March
Type: Tank Leak from Flooding
Location: Williston, ND
Gallons: 50,000 Crude Oil

Date: July
Type: Warehouse Fire Clean Up
Location: Williston, ND
Amount: 100,000 lbs. Dry Material Haz-Mat; 10,000 gallons Oil Based Material