A meeting was held on 27th May 2015 at Eden Star Hotel in Zarzis City in Tunisia between the MOIG Management Committee Members and Mr David Cook, the Vice president of NRC International.

The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the outline of the workshop. It was mutually agreed that the workshop will be entitled “National and Regional Oil Spill Response Capability and Cooperation” and to be held over 17-19 November 2015.

Mr David Cook underlined that the workshop third day will be dedicated to the visit of NRC Tier 2 Oil Spill Response Base at the BOTAS International Ltd. Marine oil loading in Ceyhan. The attendees will be able to tour the Oil Spill Response Base and observe a number of static and interactive demonstrations showing numerous different types of oil spill resources and other more specialized equipment such as bespokes, vehicles, boats, numerous different oil skimming systems, oil boom types, wildlife response/rehabilitation systems, temporary/portable road bridge systems and oil storage and separation units.

In addition to the Tier 2 base visit, NRC Turkey will arrange and conduct an on water deployment of marine response equipment, including offshore oil containment boom, skimmers, barges, purpose built oil recovery vessels and boats.

Several types of small craft/boats dedicated to OSR operations, plus a visit to the marine terminal operations centre and incident management centre. These visits will be coordinated by NRC Turkey with its clients BTC Turkey and BOTAS International.

MOIG and NRC will invite MOIG members, Technical Partners, BTC Turkey, BOTAS International, Ministry of Environment, TPAO, UMA, Turkish Civil Defense, International Organizations and experts.

Ended, this workshop will be an ideal environment to work toward mutual objectives, through the exchange of lessons learned from the previous incidents and research around the world. It will also be a good opportunity for MOIG to demonstrate real value to the oil industry.