The Regional Workshop on Crisis Management and Making Decisions was held; from 02 to 04 April 2019; at Iberostar Averroes Hotel in South Hammamet-Tunisia in cooperation with the Center of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Water Accidental Pollution (Cedre) and Eni Tunisia.
This workshop was animated by Mr. Arnaud Guéna, Expert and Coordinator of POSOW Project from Cedre.
About 50 participants from MOIG members, Ministries, agencies and experts (ETAP, Eni Tunisia, SEREPT, Shell Tunisia Upstream, STIR, TANKMED, TRAPSA, TPS, Dragon Oil, ANPE, Ministry of National Defense, ONPC, OMMP, CTF, BAD, EAM, YMS and I2E) attended the three-days workshop.
The main objectives of this workshop were :
- To enhance preparedness and response to oil spill incidents
- To remind the reasoning method and useful information for decision making in case of accidental oil pollution
- To present various response options and selection criterias
- To describe the functioning of one command post and support tools to make decisions
- To raise awareness on the importance of oil spill contingency plans, training and desktops.
The first two days workshop programme included oral presentations hinged around 10 topics:
- Decision-making process and general principles of response
- Oil properties, behavior and impacts
- Aerial observation and drift monitoring
- Oil spill modeling
- Response strategies at sea: ISB, dispersion
- Containment and recovery
- Shoreline clean-up
- Waste management
- Functioning of a headquarter
- Decision-making tools
Participants were afforded the opportunity to visit the contracted supply vessel of Eni Tunisia berthed in Marina of Yassmine Hammamet storing the Tier 1 oil spill response equipments.
The final day event was dedicated to desktops in which participants simulated five oil spill scenarios happening in the shoreline, platform, storage tank and Terminal.
We were very delighted by the rewarding working atmosphere during the desktops, participants from oil and gas industry, ministries, agencies and experts worked together, shared their experiences and applied what they have learned during the workshop to take the appropriate decisions for each oil spill scenario.
At the end of the event, certificates of attendance were awarded to participants for the completion of the training course.
The MOIG Management Committee Members would like to thank Cedre for providing technical support to MOIG, Eni Tunisia for their kind hospitality and warm welcome during the visit to their response vessel and ETAP for sponsoring this event.