The National Workshop serves to support the review and update of the draft National Oil Spill Contingency Plan.
The training was conducted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) in Jakarta, from 5 - 6 Nov 2019, for officers from the Sea and Coast Guard Unit.
The governing bodies of the IOPC Funds held sessions from Monday 28 to Thursday 31 October 2019 at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, UK.
IOSC 2020 scholarships are intended to support those whose attendance would enhance the oil spill preparedness, response and restoration community, body of knowledge and experience, across a broad range of perspectives. Scholarships are need-based and awarded to applicants only after review and approval by the IOSC 2020 Scholarship Committee.
Organised by the Myanmar Nautical Association (MNA), Maritime Conference Myanmar 2019 will be held in Yangon, on 6-7 Nov 2019.
Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, the conference will be held on 22-23 Oct 2019; a chemical spill response exercise, 'ChemSpill' will be conducted in tandem.
The 12th Co-operation Forum (CF), 44th Tripartite Technical Experts Group (TTEG) Meeting, and 12th Project Coordination Committee (PCC) Meeting will be held in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, from 30 Sep - 3 Oct 2019.
The National Workshop serves to support the review and update of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan.
Vice Admiral (VADM) Rolando Legaspi died from cardiac arrest on Wednesday, August 21. A decorated officer, VADM Legaspi served as chief of the PCG’s Marine Environmental Protection Command (MEPCOM), Surface Support Force, and Education and Training Command.
The Offshore Patrol Vessel, which will be commissioned in the PCG service as Barko Republika ng Pilipinas (BRP) Gabriela Silang, is capable of ocean voyage and operations in rough-sea conditions. It will carry containerised anti-pollution equipment onboard, to respond to marine pollution incidents.
The Marine Department of Malaysia will host the Regional Workshop on ASEAN Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan (ROSCP) Workshop and 1st Focal Points Meeting.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore will host ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners at the 38th Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting to be held in Singapore, from 21-23 Aug 2019.
The National Workshop serves to support the development of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan.
The first 'Train-the-Trainer' course, targeted at trainers responsible to deliver OPRC IMO Model Courses within their administrations in ASEAN, is now rescheduled to be held in Manila, from 17 - 20 Sep 2019.
The biennial subregional marine pollution exercise (MARPOLEX) between Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines will be happening at Davao City, Philippines from 1-5 July, 2019.
The first 'Train-the-Trainer' course for OPRC IMO trainers for Southeast Asia region has been postponed to 10-13th September 2019.
Malaysian Marine Department of Sarawak Conducts Oil Spill Training Course Series 1/2019 at Marina and Muara Tebas offices.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore will host the Singapore Maritime Week from 6th-12th April 2019. Visit their website for more information
IMO and GISEA with support from the Philippines as the host country, will organise the first Train-the-Trainer session for OPRC IMO trainers in Southeast Asia region.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore will host ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners in the 37th Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting from 5-7 March 2019 in Singapore.
As an internationally recognized technical and policy forum, the International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) is seeking thematically related papers and posters for its next conference convening in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11 - 14, 2020. The paper and poster presentations are the backbone of the IOSC's technical program and contribute to the vast canon of oil pollution knowledge shared between government, industry, and academia.
All papers and posters must be received by May 15, 2019 to be considered.
New This Year: Papers Focused on Key Industry Topics
The IOSC solicits a broad range of technical and policy papers and posters under four general categories: Prevent, Prepare, Respond, and Restore. For IOSC 2020, the Executive and Program Committees has separated these four main categories into the following list of topics that are considered especially timely and appealing for papers and platform presentations in 2020.
View the Call for Papers and Posters Submission Guidelines and start planning your submissions.
Questions?
Contact us today by email or phone at 202-973-8669.
ITOPF 2018 Tanker Oil spill statistics were published on 10 January 2019. The number of oil spills involving tankers remains low with three spills of over 700 tonnes, and three medium spills (7–700 tonnes) reported in 2018.
For more information, visit ITOPF website at the link provided.
The International Conference on Oil and Gas 2019 will be held in Singapore from 11-12 March, 2019.
For more details, visit the conference website.
The Philippines will host the 2019 MARPOLEX in Bacolod, Philippines. Plans are on the way to realising this bi-annual event in cooperation with Indonesia and Japan.
The 8th ASEAN Maritime Forum (AMF) and the 6th Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum (EAMF) will be held in Manila, Philippines from 4-7th December 2018.
The 10th Asia Pacific Congress on Oil and Gas will be held on 3-4 December, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
For more information, see the congress website.
Practical oil spill response exercise 2018 was held in Tg. Balau beach, Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia. The exercise was attended by officers from the Marine Department Malaysia, Department of Environment, Department of Marine Parks of Malaysia, Johor Port Authority and Malaysia Civil Defence Force.
The 6th Conference and Exhibition–Oil Spill Response Workshop（OSRW 2018) will be held from 6-7 December 2018 in Beijing China. OSRW 2018 is designed to be Asia’s top networking, knowledge-sharing and sourcing event of choice for oil spill prevention and clearing professionals and companies.
For more details, visit the event website in the link provided below.
IMO recently conducted an intensive 5-day workshop for lawyers and legislative drafters to support the drafting of domestic implementing legislation of IMO treaties. It provides the participants with the tools they need to understand IMO treaties and how they are developed and adopted. The most recent such workshop was held at IMO Headquarters from 1 - 5 October 2018.
For more details, visit IMO website.
IMO organised a four-day workshop in Bali, Indonesia (18-21 September) provided lawyers, policy makers and legislative drafters with a meaningful insight into IMO processes and procedures in developing international rules and examining how to effectively implement IMO conventions into domestic legislation.
For more information, visit IOPC's website from link below.
IMO and GISEA continues the Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP) in Myanmar where we will be organising a IMO Level 3 course for the Myanmar authorities in November this year. Follow our Activities page for updates on the training after the event.
The UK government will publish the UK national standard for marine oil spill response organisations on the 24th September 2018. The document outlines the standards to be met by organisations delivering Tier 2 response services in the UK.
For details on this standard, please see the link from GOV.UK.
The organisers from RECSO EnviroSpill 2018 has announced that the event is cancelled for this year. For more information, visit their website at the link below.
The 34th Annual Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference (APPEC 2018) - Where global energy markets meet will take place on September 24 - 26, 2018, at Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore.
For more information, visit the event website at the link provided.
SPE Symposium will be held on 23 - 24 April 2019 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Call for abstracts are now open with deadline on 1st October 2018.
For more information, visit their website at the link provided.
Malaysia hosts the Regional Workshop On The Dispersant Usage And Operation By The Littoral States And Workshop On Enhancing Awareness On Dispersant In The Straits Of Malacca And Singapore (SOMS) held on 13 -15 August 2018 at Georgetown, Penang.
An interesting read from a recent blog by NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration on estimation of the true cost of oil spill. The article is an interview session with a NOAA economist on the valuation methods based on ecological approach. Read more from the link below.
Since the last article, PEMSEA has officially launched the website for the upcoming East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2018. The link is provided below.
Some 80 participants from ASEAN member countries and China attended a workshop on 12th July to address issues of marine pollution and marine debris as well as the effects of search and rescue efforts on the marine environment in the South China Sea. For more details, see the article from the Maritime Institute of Malaysia's website.
The 20th Singapore International Bunkering Conference and Exhibition (SIBCON 2018) will be held 2 – 5 October 2018 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore.
With over 1600 attendees expected at SIBCON 2018, key decision makers from the shipping and marine fuels community will converge in Singapore to outline market potential, growth segments, and strategies to operate in the current environment. Visit the event website for more details.
Salvage and Wreck Asia will be conducted on 24th - 26th September 2018 at Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore. The theme is Meeting the Commercial, Insurance and Legal Challenges of Today's Salvage and Wreck Removal Operations, Focus on effective management of salvage claims.
For more information, visit the event website
Singapore plays host to the Tripartite Technical Experts Group (TTEG) for Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) activities which will be held at the last week of September. For more information, visit the Singapore Maritime and Port Authority website.
UPDATED: The Philippines Coast Guard will be hosting a National Workshop in Quarter 3, 2018. Follow the activities page for more details in the future.
Singapore's annual exercise, Joint Oil Spill Exercise 2018 (JOSE 2018) will be held on 5th October 2018. For more updates, visit Singapore Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) website.
In Vietnam, a drill was held in the central coastal province of Thanh Hoa on July 10 to provide local relevant forces with necessary knowledge and skills to cope with oil spills and improve search and rescue efforts. More details in the link below.
Singapore will host the 36th Maritime Transport Working Group meeting which will be held from 14-16th August 2018. For more details, follow the Singapore Maritime and Port Authority website.
The Directorate General of Sea Transportation (DGST) of Indonesia will be hosting the country's National Exercise (MARPOLEX) from 25-26th July 2018. This year's event will be held in Surabaya, Indonesia.
Exciting news on a pilot trial of maritime drone technologies in Singapore.
Article from Offshore Support Journal (OSJ) on the use of Autonomous Systems to determine the location and extend of oil spills. Read more at their website.
IOPC has developed an introductory video covering the role, structure and activities of the IOPC Funds, as well as an overview of the legal framework behind the international liability and compensation regime. The video is intended to provide a general introduction for those not familiar with the organisation and its work and brings all the basic information from reporting of contributing oil to the claims admissibility criteria together in one place.
Visit IOPC website to view the introductory video.
The upcoming East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress celebrates 25 years of partnerships for healthy oceans, people and economies and will be held from 27 to 30 November in Iloilo, Philippines. For more information about the event, click on the link below.
The GISEA Project is currently undertaking a planning exercise to determine how the Project might best assist the national, sub-regional and regional efforts to prepare for and respond to oil spills more effectively. The next preparedness mission will be to Viet Nam in June.
Malaysia will host the ASEAN MOU Workshop aimed to test the Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan developed as the result of the ASEAN MOU. The workshop will be held from 2-6 July 2018. For more information about the ASEAN MOU, read about it at our Regional Information page.
Sea Grant just released the latest in their series of Oil Spill Science publications, the 8-page "Microbes and Oil: What's the Connection?". This publication discusses on the breakdown of oil in the natural environment, marine snow and interaction with dispersants. Find out more at their website at the link below.
Spillcon 2019 will bring together local, regional and global environmental and shipping representatives across industry, government and non-government organisations to provide an avenue to discuss issues including cause and prevention, preparedness, response management and environmental issues. A raft of high calibre national and international speakers will address the conference on their particular areas of expertise. Visit their website for more details.
The 42nd IPA Convention and Exhibition which will be held on 2-4 May 2018 at the Jakarta Convention Center, Indonesia. This year’s theme of “Driving Indonesia's Oil and Gas Global Competitiveness” reflects upon the opportunity to impact Indonesia’s oil and gas global competitiveness by implementing innovation and technology in the areas that matter, be it policy and regulations, operational or support processes.
For more information, click on the link below to the conference website.
RECSO EnviroSpill 2018 will be held from 9 – 10 of October at the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi. Comprising an international exhibition and strategic conference it will provide an opportunity to learn about the protection of the waters around the GCC by highlighting oil spill prevention, preparedness and remedial actions in case of an incident. It will reflect every organization’s commitment to marine and environmental issues. For more information, visit their website at the link below.
Thailand conducts national oil spill response exercises annually. This year's exercise will be held on 23-24 May at Chonburi, Thailand.
This year's SPE International Conference will be held on 16-18 April 2018 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. For more than 25 years, the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility has been the E&P industry’s premier international event highlighting HSE best practices and challenges. For more information about the conference, click on the link below to their website.
Oil Spill India (OSI) - The International Conference & Exhibition on Oil Spill Prevention, Preparedness, Response & Restoration systems has over the years created a global forum for governments, regulators, industry, academia and response organizations to discuss, deliberate, share & learn the best of practices, technologies & experiences on oil spill management. For more information, proceed to the event page from the link below.
Interspill 2018 will take place 13 - 15 March in London. The leading European oil spill conference and exhibition will look at potential issues to be raised from any future oil spills, including Spill Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Restoration. For more details on the event, click the link below to connect to the event page.
On February 28th, GISEA bids farewell to Mr Joselito Guevarra, our long serving project manager. Mr Joselito is a well known figure in the region who has worked tirelessly on the GI SEA program since the program started in 2013. His work has supported many countries on the national, sub-regional and regional levels for various oil spill preparedness and response activities.
Mr Joselito is succeeded by Ms Amanda Chee who will assume the GISEA Project Manager's role. Ms Amanda joins GISEA from Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) and brings with her a wealth of experience in oil spill preparedness projects and oil spill response experiences in Asia Pacific region. Ms Amanda will continue the good works of Mr Joselito to support ASEAN countries in improving their national capacities on oil spill preparedness and response.
In 2018, IMO celebrates 70 years since the Convention establishing the Organization was adopted.
The World Maritime Day theme for the year is "IMO 70: Our Heritage – Better Shipping for a Better Future"
See IMO's Secretary-General's message and events details at the link below.
See the press release from Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore website.
IOPC Funds were invited by the Philippine Coast Guard to run a workshop on the international liability and compensation regime from 9–11 January 2018, in Manila, the Philippines.
Details on the workshop are available at IOPC website below.
According to IMO website, Myanmar recently acceded to treaty covering on The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (BUNKER) which applies to damage caused on the territory, including the territorial sea, and in exclusive economic zones of States under the Convention.
H.E. Mr. Kyaw Zwar Minn, Ambassador of Myanmar to the United Kingdom, met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London to deposit the instrument of accession (19 January). Myanmar’s ratification brings the number of States to accede to the treaty to 87, representing 92.5% of the world's merchant fleet tonnage.
IPIECA, API and IOGP have released a new publication – Guidelines on implementing spill impact mitigation assessment (SIMA) - produced in support of the IPIECA-IOGP guidance on net environmental benefit analysis (NEBA). For more information, click the link below to download the guidelines.
PIECA has released a new publication - Key principles for the protection, care and rehabilitation of oiled wildlife. This was developed in support of the IPIECA-IOGP guidance Wildlife response preparedness. You can download the latest publication at IPIECA website from the link given below.
IPIECA has released a new publication - Dispersant storage, maintenance, transport and testing. This was produced in support of the IPIECA-IOGP guidance on surface and subsurface dispersant. Dispersant use can mitigate the overall impact of an oil spill by removing oil from the sea’s surface, thereby protecting marine mammals, birds, coastal habitats and shorelines. The guidance document can be downloaded from their website at the link below.
The Viet Nam National Southern Southern Oil Spill Response Centre or NASOS will play host to the Subregional Workshop on Developing the Subregional Contingency Plan and Guidelines in the Use of Dispersants in the Gulf of Thailand (GOT). It will be held back-to-back with the 11th Annual National Contact Points (NCP) Meeting of the three littoral states - Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam - bordering the GOT.
The Myanmar National Task Force (NTF) on the development of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) continues in the office of the DMA (Department of Marine Administration) till 2018.
The Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) will be conducting a National Workshop on the Finalisation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCOP) from the 4th to the 6th of October in Manila.
Article in the Myanmar Times on Myanmar's commitment to finalise the national oil spill contingency plan by 2018.
Slideshare on the exhibition that was organized by IMO, IOPC Funds and ITOPF, with the support of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations (IGP&I), the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), the International Salvage Union (ISU), the International Spill Control Organization (ISCO) and the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF).
Details on the exhibition is available from IMO's website at this link.
IPIECA, IMO and GISEA attended the largest oil spill conference of the year: the 2017 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) and Exhibition.
The 21st MARPOLEX exercise will be held from May 15 to 17, 2017 in Bali, Indonesia. The exercise is a commitment of the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan in the implementation of the ASEAN Oil Spill Response Action Plan and the Sulawesi Oil Spill Network Response Plan.
Press release from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore website
IMO and IPIECA have jointly launched a new Global Initiative (GI) programme aimed at improving the oil spill preparedness and response capabilities in south east Asia, at a regional workshop that took place from 20 to 21 March 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop and launch event was attended by more than 70 high-level representatives from Government and the maritime, oil and gas industry from countries across the south east Asia region.
Click on the link below for IMO press brief.