Tag: oil spill preparedness

The anticipated salvage operation for the stranded MV Sounion has been postponed, according to the private companies overseeing the effort.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has notified the Director of the IOPC Funds, Gaute Sivertsen, that the Republic of Iraq deposited its instrument of accession to the 1992 Fund Convention on 5 August 2024. 

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has issued a call for contributions of oil pollution response equipment to support operations related to the sinking of MV RUBYMAR in the Republic of Yemen. 

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is utilizing advanced satellite technology to enhance the detection of oil spills across the global ocean.

EU/EFTA has published guidelines intended to provide useful and practical information to relevant responders, administrations or industry when addressing health and safety issues linked specifically to marine oil spill response operations.

According to the Canadian offshore petroleum regulator, the Hibernia Management and Development Company (HMDC), is pleading guilty to an oil spill from a platform off St. John’s Newfoundland, which occurred in July 2019.

Up to 3,400 gallons of oil were spilled in the Mississippi river from a Kirby Inland Marine barge near Natchez, the U.S. Coast Guard said on 12th June. 

The International Group and the Canadian Ship Source Oil Pollution Fund (SOPF) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Ottawa on 4th October to strengthen the ties between the two organisations and to ensure that the International Group Clubs and the Fund work in a collective and co-operative manner to handle claims in the event of a future significant ship sourced oil spill in Canadian waters.

Port operations in Gibraltar were suspended as clean-up teams were trying to control residual oil that leaked from the wrecked bulker OS 35. 

Anticipating heavy weather, officials in Gibraltar agreed to a plan to scuttle the stern section of the grounded OS 35 bulk carrier in place off the city’s coast.