Oil Spill Awareness

Understand the causes, impacts, and response strategies for oil spills to enhance environmental protection and emergency preparedness

Course Aims

To provide awareness of the hazards, effect and costs related to oil spills at sea, and overview the different approaches to dealing with the spills.

Course Objectives

•Know how oil spill happens

•State who is responsible for the containment and cleaning of oil spills

•Know the hazards and impact of oil spills on the human, environment and economy

•Have a thorough understanding of a Management Plan For Oil Spills

•Understand and use the UKOOA Hydrocarbon Release Reduction Toolkit

What you will learn in this course

Introduction, registration & welcome

Reasons for oil spills

Statistics on oil spills

Case histories

Behaviour of oil at sea, spreading, evaporation, dispersion, emulsification, dissolution, oxidation, sedimentation, biodegrading & combined processes.

Effects of marine oil spills: Impact of oil on coastal activities, Biological effects, Impact of oil on specific marine habitats, Impact of oil on fisheries and marine culture

Contingency planning

Clean-up Techniques: Chemical dispersion, Containment and recovery of floating oil, Shoreline clean-up

Alternative Techniques for spill response: In-situ burning, Bioremediation, Bio stimulation, Bio augmentation

Response Strategies: Contingency planning, Strategy, Operational plan, Assessing the adequacy of a contingency plan

Revision and closure

Target Audience

Ship Officers, Crew, Company Managers and Supervisors who work on oil carriers or who may be involved with the containment and clean-up of an oil spill.