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Oil Spill Response (OSR) Overview

Level: Awareness | Type: Classroom | Discipline: Environment

Course Description

  • Oil & gas activities however upstream – midstream – downstream normally associated with different hazardous occasions, one of those extraordinary events is oil spill offshore or onshore.  Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) for the Upstream (Oil Exploration and Production) Sector is taking place.
  • Due to the danger, oil spills cause to public health and the environment, every effort must be made to prevent oil spills and to clean them up promptly once they occur. The purpose of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule is to help facilities prevent a discharge of oil into navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. The SPCC rule requires facilities to develop, maintain, and implement an oil spill prevention plan, called an SPCC Plan. These Plans help facilities prevent oil spills, as well as control a spill should one occur.
Course Objective
  • Learning Objectives - Describe the EPA's Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule is and why it was created - Identify facilities and oils covered by the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule - List common oil storage and handling types - Identify spill prevention measures - Describe employee training - Identify control measures - Define response planning levels - Describe spill countermeasures - Describe proper disposal practices.
By the end of this session you will be able to understand in depth the following topics:
  • The EPA's Spill Prevention, Control
  • Oil spill local and regional rules and regulations pertaining to oil spill incidents 
  • What is MARPOL CONVENTION?
  • The IMO MARPOL regulations
  • MARPOL 2020 
  • MARPOL-73_78 - MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY
  • MARPOL CONVENTION
  • Identify facilities and tools and equipment used in the three levels of oil spill
  • Oils covered by the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule
  • List common oil storage and oil spill handling types
  • Identify spill prevention measures
  • Define response planning three levels 
  • Describe spill countermeasures
  • Recovered oil treatment and re-use mechanisms and proper disposal practice
  • Environmental preservations circumstances

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  • EPA's Spill Prevention
  • Oil spill local and regional rules and regulations. 
  • What is MARPOL CONVENTION?
  • The IMO MARPOL regulations.
  • MARPOL 2020. 
  • MARPOL-73_78 - MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY.
  • MARPOL CONVENTION.
  • Identify facilities and tools and equipment used in the three levels of oil spill.
  • Oils are covered by the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule.
  • List common oil storage and oil spill handling types.
  • Identify spill prevention measures.
  • Define response planning three levels. 
  • Describe spill countermeasures.
  • Recovered oil treatment and re-use mechanisms and proper disposal practice.
  • Environmental preservations circumstances. 

  • Persons who presently work or plan to work in oil spill control management at both team leader’s level and or technicians and operators level.
  • Environmental management system and marine staff.


  • Marine safety basics BOSIET or similar
  • HSE Foundimatel training

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