Oil & Chemical Spill Impact Mitigation and Risk Assessment
Oil & Chemical Spill Impact Mitigation and Risk Assessment
Experience providing assessments of actual or theoretical releases of crude oil and other hydrocarbons into the marine environment, supporting the planning and permitting of offshore oil and gas exploration activities and crude and refined product loading/unloading terminals, and assessments of the consequences of production discharges, pipeline accidents, and vessel collisions. This work often supports facility emergency plans, health and environment risk surveys, and the preparation of spill response plans.
Examples of client assignments include:
- Technical support to industry and university experts preparing an oil spill consequence analysis examining plans for offshore oil exploration along the western coast of Greenland. The work was conducted under Work Package 5 of the Integrated Oil Spill Response Actions and Environmental Effects (GRACE) Project funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 program.
- Member of the science review panel convened by the Norske Oil & Gas Association to examine the technical foundation and utility of the ERA-Acute oil spill risk assessment model proposed as an upgrade to oil spill assessment and spill response planning for offshore oil exploration and production activities in the North Sea.
- A two-year study of the marine ecosystem in designated oil and gas exploration areas of the Chukchi Sea supporting the development of an online knowledge-sharing tool and oil spill response decision-support framework for spill response technologies under varying seasonal conditions and ice conditions. The “Arctic Response Consequence Analysis Tool (ARCAT)” was made publicaly available in December 2014.
