Global Industry Response Group Oil Spill Response sub-team Kuala Lumpur Workshop April 15, 2011
Background • Macondo spill response effort is widely acknowledged to have been successful, but… • ….post -event analysis has identified potential opportunities to further strengthen future spill response plans • Longer – term issues that are not considered pressing now, but may potentially become more visible in the next few years, were also identified.
Background • GIRG OSR sub-team: over forty experts and responders from OGP, the IPIECA Oil Spill Working Group, and the Tier 3 Oil Spill Response Centre in UK • Full consultative process in worldwide Oil Spill Response Community • Included consultations with US API and Australian AIP/AMOSC, IMO and others in Asia, Latin America and Europe • Nineteen issues identified for further work
Work Program • Dispersant Advocacy • Education and better use of dispersant science • Environmental Effects of Dispersants • Subsea use/capping & containment (with API) • Dispersant Approval & Supply Chain • Global protocol/supply chain capabilities (with Nalco) • Dispersant Effectiveness Monitoring • Global adoption of SMART protocol? • Airborne Dispersant Delivery Systems (ADDS) • Alternative airframes – R.O.W.
Work Program • Tier2 / Tier 3 response resources • Verify the response philosophy and strategy • Assessing Response Preparedness • Risk/Hazard assessment • Prescriptive vs. safety case models • Effective exercises • Benefits of real-time exercises • Testing of National & Industry plans
Work Program • Communications: forming a “Common Operating Picture” • Capture IT and Technical developments • IPIECA OSWG Good Practice Series • Include E&P – new technical publications required • Mobilizing, managing and integrating responders • Integrating volunteers, civil protections, military, etc. • Response to different types of oil • Relating oil properties – and how they change over time - to response scenarios
Work Program • In situ burning • Draw together good practices and techniques • Promulgate the ICS: Incident Command System • Goal is worldwide adoption • Offshore Decanting • Permitted in Macondo, but typically, it is prohibited • Surveillance of Oil Spills • Surface tracking of oil & dispersed oil • Subsurface plume modelling • Potential for integration with ROV/AUV sampling
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