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The 2002 seminar focused on Training and Exercise. 
After
the Exxon Valdez disaster many countries – both the public and the
private – invested heavily in oil spill response equipment and updated
their
Oil Spill Contingency Plans. However, it has since become quite
apparent that an important implementation has not been carried out, namely
efficient and frequent enough Training and Exercises. We refer for
instance to articles in
the Oil Spill Intelligence Report where California State authorities found
that the training levels among the OSRO’s were insufficient. We have
reasons to
believe that the same shortage in Training and Exercising is found among
many state and private institutions elsewhere. So the main subject in Horten
and Aalesund was Training & Exercise.
The management of SFT (Norwegian State Pollution Control Authority) introduced the subject which
was followed up by three world-reputed
representatives from private as well as government OSRO’s. The seminar was subsequently join
by SFT as well as inter-municipal organizations and
several oil companies in a large oil spill Exercise outside Aalesund, at
the coast of North Western Norway. The Exercise was highlighted by a
very realistic emergency offloading event.
Tore W. Sundquist
NOSCA Chairman |
Jan Allers
NOSCA Seminar Chairman |
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