• Oil production and transport at sea:
Patterns, trends, pollution prevention and response
• Oil pollution legislation and policies:
National and international levels
• Regional preparedness:
Cooperation agreements, mutual assistance
• Oil pollution impacts and restoration:
Assessment, implementation
• Inland water pollution from production and transport:
Prevention and contingency planning
• Oil slick detection and monitoring:
Organisation, detection, sampling techniques and equipment, subsurface
monitoring
• Shoreline response:
Tools and techniques, performance. Waste disposal, alternative uses of oily
waste and the impact of European legislation on waste disposal
• Response at sea:
Rationale, tools and techniques, performance
• Dispersants:
Efficiency, toxicity, decision making, new developments
• Rigs, wrecks and sunken oil:
Tracking slicks, quantifying oil in wrecks, removal from wrecks
• Heavy fuel oil versus crude oil aspects:
Challenges of heavy oil response, impacts
• Compensation of pollution damage caused by oil and HNS:
National rules and international conventions, trends and expected evolution.
