3M T4 3″ X 4′ White Petroleum Sorbent Mini-Boom absorbs up to 100% more oil by weight than other leading melt blown sorbents. Mini-boom is designed with a scrim to enhance particulate sorbent material and feature tube-like shape to encircle spills or contain leaks. Sorbent material in the boom is a selective sorbent, that only “sorb” hydrocarbon-based liquids (oleophilic) and repel aqueous-based liquids (hydrophobic). Economic boom can be wrung out, re-used and disposed of easily. Temperaturehumidity resistant boom finds application in controlling, cleaning up, recovering oil or petroleum based liquids from effluent discharge, streams, ponds, lakes, rivers, drain, pumps or other bodies of water, in-plant spills under leaking equipment and machinery in place of clay granules.