Tag: oil spill preparedness

The US Coast Guard received a report at about 08:45 Friday morning that the 90-foot vessel American Challenger was adrift, after the tug that was towing lost propulsion due to a rope entangling the propeller.

Following the announcement of the obligation for an OSRO certificate when conducting bunkering operations at Zona Comun, off La Plata, the Argentine Coast Guard has now shared further clarifications on the matter.

Starting from 18 January, if ships are not compliant with the Panama Canal Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (PCSOPEP) requirements, then they can only transit the Canal if they have paid or placed a satisfactory guarantee for the payment of any applicable sanction and the ship submits an approved PCSOPEP at least 96 hours before arriving in Canal waters. 

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has reported significant progress with its contingency planning efforts to prepare for a possible oil spill from the floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) SAFER, which has been moored off the coast of Yemen since 1988.

One of the challenges officials faced during Deepwater Horizon was a lack of awareness and understanding among federal, state, and local agencies of how the US government responds to a Stafford Act/National Response Framework incident differently than how it responds to a NCP incident, speakers during a USCG meeting agreed. 

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) conducted a joint oil spill exercise at Raffles Anchorage to test inter-agency coordination and response to oil spill incidents in the Port of Singapore.

An oil slick was reported near a burning tanker off Sri Lanka. Before this development, officials had warned that help was necessary, in case the vessel started spilling oil.

MOL confirmed that the crack inside the hull of MV Wakashio had expanded and the Prime Minister of Mauritius is calling to prepare for the worst-case scenario highlighting the risks that may follow from the oil spill.

As USCG informed, an innovative sub surface oil containment and recovery system, installed in April 2019 over a damaged oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, is successfully preventing more than 1,000 gallons of oil per day from entering the environment.

Oil spill is a major form of pollution and has negative impacts upon the marine environment. In order to face its affects, scientists from Flinders University in Adelaide along with the Australian Government and other collaborators, developed a material which can absorb oil spills.