The HNS Convention IPIECA member perspectives

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The HNS ConventionIPIECA member perspectives

• Rob Cox
• Technical Manager, IPIECA

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Company Members
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Association Members
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Reminder
Quick Reminder Key activities
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OSWG Mission

• Act as a forum for members to discuss oil spill
  issues of importance to the industry
• Cooperate with a wide range of stakeholders on
  establishing best practice
• Support joint industry-government cooperation
• Encourage members governments to
• ratify international conventions
• adopt the principle of Net Environmental Benefit
  Analysis
• incorporate the tiered response concept when
  designing response strategies
• Develop communicate industry viewpoint and
  activities
• Dissemination of publications, case studies,
  presentations and web-based information
• Promotion of member involvement in global oil
  spill conferences

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HNS corollaries

• IPIECA members support the implementation of the
  HNS convention
• However there are corollaries attached to this
  important initiative
• The convention recognizes certain activities and
  concepts in the same way that it does for
  persistent oils response/prevention activities,
  concept of reasonableness, etc.
• This will in turn influence monitoring and
  response actions and it is important that these
  concepts are widely understood by the response
  community

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A lack of expertise

• Some countries have established land-based or
  marine-based advisory centres for HNS incidents
  many (most?) have not
• Tier 3 response centres are often called upon to
  respond to spills of persistent oil during HNS
  incidents but in many cases these centres are
  not equipped to handle chemical response
  activities and will not respond for fear of
  endangering life

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IMO OPRC-HNS support

• Planning and Response to Chemical Releases in
  the Marine Environment
• CEFIC, IPIECA and IMO
• Will form part of Basic Information documents
• Will likely link in to HNS training courses
• A good start but we need to go further

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The future

• The convention places an implied obligation on
  stakeholders to encourage the establishment of
  HNS expertise around the world.
• Some oil industry Tier 3 centres are potentially
  interested in growing capability to cover certain
  types of HNS events
• In other cases this could be handled by national
  jurisdictions
• Need to progress the establishment of recognized
  training for personnel involved in responding to
  HNS incidents