Oil Spill Response

Delivered by: Andy Lang

Date: 15th March 2012

Exercise Planning

What are we testing ?

Establishing Objectives

Oil Spill Exercises

Competency

Processes

•  Legislative Requirements

•  Response Structure

•  Communications

•  Checklists

•  Response Plans

Equipment

•  Capability

•  Deployment times

•  Suitability

•  Mobilisation processes

•  Resilience

•  Training regimes

•  Exercise Regimes

•  Capability

Response Structure for Major ongoing spill with NCP activation and shoreline impact

MRC Aberdeen

Operator Response Centre

Crisis Team

OCU

DECC Ministers

Scottish Government

SRC

OSR

Other OSR responders

Response Contractor

SEPA

Police

Offshore

Operator

SOSREP

DECC Assistant / Strategic

CPSO

EG Rep

EOM / Ops Rep

Council EPO

EG

MCA

MCA Press office

Braemar Howells

JNCC

SFA

Env Group

MS

Press Office Operator,

MCA, DECC

Tech teams

Council ERC

HPS

FSA

SNH

Operator

DFT Ministers

Partners

Response Assets

Onshore

Operator Platform

Extract from National Exercise

Oil Spill Exercises

Scenario

SSTT = Subsea Test Tree

LMRP = Lower Marine Riser Package

Riser & Landing String

LMRP

Vessel on DP

Disconnect point

Well

Shear rams partly shut

Pipe rams Shut

BOP

Main conductor

4.5” Production String used for well test

BOP action to Emergency Disconnect

•  Close Sub-sea test tree

•  Lower pipe rams close around the SSTT

•  Lower Casing Shear ram closes shearing the production string @ shear joint.

•  Pipe retracted allowing upper blind shear rams to close = affect good seal

SSTT Failed to close.

Extract from National Exercise

Exercise Instructions

Timeline

Outline Scenario

Telephone Directory

Participant Brief

Role-player Brief

Faxes

Technical Support Data

Comms Diagram

Feedback Forms

Charts & Modelling

Evaluator Assessment Forms

Exercise Orders

Exercise Directors

Technical Role-Players

Participants

Evaluators

Observers

Directing Staff

Document Users

Exer

cise

Doc

umen

ts

Oil Spill Exercises

Evaluation & Directing

MRC

Operator

ERT

CMT

OCU

SRC OSR

Other OSR

responders

ERT

Drilling Contractor Offshore

Role-player Room

Oil Operator

3rd Party

Operator

EG

Media Cell

Tech Teams

Aberdeen

Aberdeen

MRCC

Aberdeen

Aberdeen

D

Evaluators

Di-Staff

Exercise Command Cell 1.

Operator

PT

AP

TR

CD

CL

MC

PT

CB

NF

RB

CB

E

CV

CP

CUE NF

GB

M&G

IB BB

DM JT

MM

MR

JD

KG

AJL

GL

Exercise Command Cell 2.

Beaching location

LG CM

LM

LA ERC

MW

DMr

JT

JD

JT

SF

BR

Extract from National Exercise

Oil Spill Exercises

Managing Exercise Parameters

Oil Spill Exercises

Technical Role-players Ex Tel

Directory

Participants

Exercise

Directors

Directing Staff

Clarify only if required

Artificial Elements

Planning Team

Oil Spill Exercises

Observers

Logistics

Planner

Key Stakeholder

Financial

Planning Team Representatives

Oil Spill Response

deployment

Technical scenario

Evaluation Media Security

Chair

Administration

Sub Planning Teams

Sponsor Affected Company

Delivery

Oil Spill Exercises

Directing

Staff

Command Cell

Technical

Role-players

Evaluators Participant

Cell

Directing

Staff Evaluators

Participant

Cell

Directing

Staff Evaluators

Participant

Cell

Brief / Support Brief / Support

Brief / Support

Inject Interface

Brief /

Monitor Evaluate

Exercise

Observers

Feedback & Reporting

Oil Spill Exercises

Directing

Staff Command

Cell

Technical

Role-players Participant

Cell

Participant

Cell

Participant

Cell Evaluators

Centrally Collated

Report

Team

Feedback Feedback

Feedback

Feedback

POST EXERCISE

REPORT

Thank-you for your attention

Questions

Oil Spill Exercises