Tag: oil spill preparedness

A series of three workshops took place to help prepare countries in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean to respond to pollution incidents.

Australia has provided marine oil spill response support to Sri Lanka after the sinking of the Singapore-flagged MV X-Press Pearl container ship off the coast of Colombo last June.

Xodus Group mapped-out potential risks to the UK’s coastal environment, marine life and traffic as a result of hydrocarbon releases from energy industry activity and shipping has been completed, in order to inform the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) future response strategy.

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.