Pollution preparedness and response

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1 Pollution preparedness and response -response to oil spills from off-shore activities Kjersti Tusvik Senior legal adviser Department for Emergency Response EUOAG Brussels, June 30 th 206

2 NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION Authority under the Ministry of Transport and Communications Main tasks: coastal management and infrastructure, maritime traffic safety and monitoring, preparedness against acute pollution

3 GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY Territorial Norway Inland and territorial waters to 2 nm Exclusive Economic Zone 200 nm Continental shelf Svalbard and Bear Island 200 nm fisheries protection zone Jan Mayen 200 nm fisheries protection zone Antarctic areas

4 NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS AGAINST ACUTE POLLUTION

5 GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION The national authority for oil spill preparedness and response is divided between: The Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) NEA give specific preparedness requirements, issue regulations and permits on a case by case basis and issue guidelines. NEA also audits how the requirements are fulfilled. NCA supervises the operator response, and issue requirements for the clean up operation. NCA may also take operational command if necessary.

6 NATIONAL RESPONSE COOPERATION

7 INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE COOPERATION The Bonn Agreement The Copenhagen Agreement The NorBrit Agreement The Barents Sea Agreement Arctic oil spill agreement EU Assistance through ERCC Arctic Council - EPPR WG North Atlantic Coast Guard forum ICE (and MAR-ICE)

8 NCA RESOURCES Emergency response personnel from NCA 45 depots with OSR equipment 35 vessels in preparedness for towing of booms 6 oil spill response vessels Coast Guard vessels 4 Emergency towing vessels Surveillance aircraft and satellite services Equipment/assistance by local authorities National agreements International agreements

9 PETROLEUM INDUSTRY CAPACITIES (NOFO) The operator must be able to handle dimensioning spills with their own resources 28 OR vessels with NOFO standard and 33 for towing on open sea 22 ocean-going mechanical oil recovery systems 0 ocean-going dispersion systems Access to Hercules aircraft for dispersion 5 oil spill response bases with 80 equipment operators Large stocks of dispersant (around 700m3) Remote sensing equipment Satellite, aircraft, helicopters, HF- Radar, drones, aerostat and specially equipped monitoring vessels

10 THREE LEVELS OF POLLUTION RESPONSE Regulated by the Pollution Control Act Private industry response offshore oil industry Operating companies are responsible for the activity NOFO provide the spill response resources. Municipal response In each municipality Organised into 32 inter-municipal preparedness regions Governmental response NCA is responsible authority for Governmental preparedness Possibility to take over operational control from any polluter

11 NOFO OR VESSELS - OFFSHORE NOFO base NOFO depot 2 2 OR vessels on permanent standby (mechanical recovery and 9 dispersion systems) deployable OR vessels vessels for towing with OR vessel (+ 9 vessels from Norwegian Sea Rescue) Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response

12 MAJOR ACCIDENTS

13 NATIONAL RISK ANALYSIS The National Risk Analysis focuses on large unwanted incidents demanding extraordinary governmental effort.

14 ANALYSIS WORST CASE SCENARIOS Scenarios from National risk analysis Ships collision cruise vessel and crude oil tanker. Spill ton Blow-out spill ton Qualitative assessment Recommendations for follow up Finalised in 205

15 GOVERNMENTAL OIL SPILL RESPONSE OPERATIONS

16 NATIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN Defines roles and responsibilities Basis Pollution Control Act International Conventions Lessons learned Premises Based on ELS (Norwegian adapted ICS) Build on and establishes connection with other authorities own plans Predictability during governmental takeover from responsible polluter (ship and offshore oil incidents) Completed April 205

17 INTEGRATED COMMAND SYSTEM

18 BRIDGING DOCUMENT NCA and Off-shore industry Organisation of governmental incident command following large oil spills off-shore Covers operations at open sea, in the coastal zone and on the shoreline Does not cover response related to source control or stopping the spill at the well head.

19 NCA INCIDENT COMMAND OFF-SHORE - CRITERIAS The following criteria may be the basis (but are not limited to): An incident with possibly large geographical spreading and associated shoreline pollution An incident with large social considerations Incidents with the possibility to drift into and afflict neighbouring states.

20 CLEAN, SAFE AND EFFICIENT SEAWAYS