Environmental Impact of Oil Spills Training
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Environmental Impact of Oil Spills Training Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
The overall objective is to provide the individual with a broad understanding of oil spills, spill response methods, and effective spill management techniques.
Who Should Attend?
This course is particularly designed for managers, supervisors and other individuals involved with spill response supervision and management. Participants commonly come from the oil transport, development and production, government, the mining and energy sectors as well as other companies involved in the transport or storage of petroleum. Those involved with pipelines and marine operations are particularly encouraged to attend.
Course Outlines:
This course is delivered as a 5-day program using overheads, videos, handouts, spill-response case histories, and classroom exercises. Any component of the course can be given to fit time constraints.
Oil Spills – Introduction
- Petroleum components and properties
- Sources and historical trends
- Spilled oil transport (aquatic and on land)
- Fate of spilled oil (spreading, evaporation, advection, evaporation, emulsification, photo-oxidation, and biodegradation.
Tracking Spilled Oil
- Oil spill transport and fate modelling
- Satellite and high-altitude surveillance
- Low-altitude aerial surveys.
- SCAT shoreline assessment techniques.
Ecological Effects and Recovery
- Physical and chemical effects
- Effects on shoreline organisms and recovery times
- Effects to Wildlife Groups (birds, fisheries, shellfish, mammals, reptiles)
- Wildlife Rescue and Treatment
- International Treatment Organizations
Impacts to Shorelines
- Oil impact and persistence on different shoreline types.
Social-Economic Impacts
- Impacts to property and businesses
- Perception versus reality
Spill Response Management
- Spill response organization and structure
- Using the Incident Command System
- Communications
- Health and safety
- Setting of objectives
- Monitoring field operations
- Record keeping / reporting
- Communication with the public and media
Standard Spill Response Techniques and Limitations
- On-water recovery
- Shoreline protection
- Shoreline cleanup strategies and guidelines
- Shoreline strategies to avoid
- Risks versus benefits
- When to end a response
- Waste management
Alternative Response Techniques
- Dispersants
- Controlled burning
- Bioremediation
- Solidifiers and other chemical agents
Spill Planning
- International guidelines
- Determining risk
- Tiered responses
- Environmental sensitivity mapping
- Extent of planning area (marine and pipeline)
- International support
- Determining equipment requirements
- Response exercises (type and schedule)
Liabilities and Compensation
- International compensation programs
- Compensable losses
- Documentation requirements