Transcript Eastern Canada Response Corporation

ECRC~SIMEC
Presentation to the
The Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on
The Behaviour and Environmental Impacts of
Crude Oil Released into Aqueous Environments
Robert Starkes
Manager Atlantic Region
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Presentation Contents
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ECRC~SIMEC overview
Response examples with crude oils
Training and development activities
Opportunities for development
 Health and safety considerations
 Response strategies
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ECRC Overview
Mandate and Mission
 Mandate
 Provide marine oil spill response capacity for its Canada
Shipping Act Membership (designated oil handling
facilities (OHF) and vessels of a prescribed class)
throughout it’s Geographic Area of Response (GAR).
Mission
 Maintain a constant state of preparedness and
operational readiness consistent with the legislation at
an affordable cost to our Members.
 Provide value added preparedness services to all of our
members.
 Assume a leadership role in the preparedness to oil spill
response within the community at large.
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ECRC Overview
ECRC~SIMEC Clients
 >1900 total members
 >1900 Vessel Members
(>600 Bulk & >1300 Non-Bulk)
 >40 OHF Members with >80
Facilities
 >20 Subscribers (Elective Members Pay
an Annual Fee, but no bulk oil cargo Fee )
Enbridge Pipelines, Montreal Pipe Line Ltd., Trans Northern Pipelines,
Hibernia Mgt & Dev. Co. Ltd, Husky Oil, Exxon-Mobil, Suncor Energy,
Chevron, M-I Drilling Fluids NS, Bruce Power, Hydro Quebec, IOL Pipe Line,
CN Rail , CP Rail…
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ECRC Overview
Geographical Area of Coverage
Lake Athabaska
Fort McMurray
Lake Winnipeg
Sept-Iles
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Vancouver
Montreal
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Sarnia
Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC)
Holyrood
Quebec
Juan de Fuca
Strait
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Northumberland
Strait
Cabot Strait
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 Point Tupper
Saint John
Come-By-Chance
Halifax
Niagara
Atlantic Emergency Response Team (ALERT)
Point Tupper Marine Services (PTMS)
Eastern Canada Response Corporation (ECRC)
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ECRC Overview
Response Centres
Sept Iles
Quebec City
Verchères
St. John’s
Holyrood
Corunna
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Dartmouth
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ECRC Overview
Response Capacity
 2,500 tonnes capacity at five Response Centres & 3,500
tonnes at St. John’s, NL.
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Road transportable and preloaded on trailers
Variety of equipment for containment, recovery, transfer, clean-up
Trained operators accompany the equipment
 16,000 tonnes capacity within ECRC nationally
 Over 31,000 tonnes available via Mutual Aid across
Canada's 4 Response Organizations (RO’s)
 46 ECRC personnel, >100 Advisors and >500 trained 3rd
party contractors (responders)
 Additional capability via the Global Response Network
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ECRC Overview
Response Equipment
WORK BOATS
STORAGE BARGE
GP BOOM
SEATRUCK
SWEEP SYSTEM
SKIMMER
HEAVY OIL SKIMMING
FLOATING STORAGE TANKS
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ECRC Overview
Spill Responses
 Typically 15 - 20 incidents per year
 >300 responses in 20 years (3 Regions)
• Varying sizes: 1 litre to >1000m3
• Wide range of products – Jet fuel to Bunker C,
conventional and synthetic crudes
• Different environments – fresh, estuarine, marine
• Varying durations: 1 day to 3 years (seasonal)
• Across all seasons and temperatures -30°C to 30°C
• Working in snow, ice, and pack ice conditions
• Involving 5 - 450 workers
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Operational Experience
Crude Oil
 Operational experiences with crude oil in
different aqueous environments, include:
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Open ocean environment
Beaver ponds and stream
Sheltered marine
Gulf of Mexico
Fen and pond
Lake and river
River with ice cover
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Operational Experience
Offshore Newfoundland
 Open ocean environment – crude oil
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Operational Experience
Mitsue Hill, Alberta
 Pipeline spill (~1100m3 of crude oil) into a small
stream and beaver ponds
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Operational Experience
Sheltered Marine
 Marine terminal (OHF) in Halifax Harbour
 Small spill of crude oil
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Operational Experience
Deepwater Horizon, GOM
 ECRC provided SCAT Team Leaders 2010-2012
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Operational Experience
Deepwater Horizon, GOM
 Snorkel SCAT
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Operational Experience
Northern Alberta
 Pipeline spill of 1300bbl of light synthetic crude
across land into a fen and pond
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Operational Experience
Northern Alberta
 Air monitoring requirements
 Respirator requirements
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Operational Experience
Lac Megantic, Quebec
 Train Derailment – Bakken crude spilled into lake
and river.
 River bed SCAT Assessment
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Operational Experience
Lac Megantic, Quebec
 River treatment operations
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Operational Experience
Gagoma, Ontario
 Train derailment near ice-covered river
 Light synthetic crude
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Training and Development
 Selected training areas
 Responder training program
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Core training for >500 responders)
Oil-in-ice training
SCAT training
Land-spills (truck rollover) training
Incident Command System (ICS) training
Tidal inlets protection response techniques
Offshore response equipment
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Training and Development
 Conference Attendance
 Regular attendance to key oil spill response
conferences (IOSC, AMOP, InterSpill, Clean Gulf, REET)
 Workshops
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Sinking Oils Workshop
Diluted Bitumen Workshop
Group IV Oils Workshop
Effects of Oil on Wildlife Workshop
Oil-In-Ice Workshop
Land-spills (truck rollover) workshop
Tidal Inlets Protection Strategies Workshop
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Training and Development
 Other activities:
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100’s of table-top and field exercises
Participation in oil weathering studies
Review of oil testing results
Modeling software training (OilMap)
Regular use of ADIOS modeling
Sensitivity and operational mapping system
Participation in NOFO Oil-On-Water Exercise
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Training and Development
 ECRC is a member of the Global
Response Network (GRN)
 Active contributors to GRN Operational Teams
 Offshore
 Remote Sensing
 Dispersants
 In-Situ Burning
 Near-Shore
 Ice-Covered Waters
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Training and Development
 Response personnel need to have an understanding of
both oil properties and practical response strategies for
different environments
Kinder Morgan Dilbit Study
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Tidal Inlet Protection Strategies
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Opportunities for Development
Health and Safety
 From a response perspective, a key element
across all environments is…….People
 Need to address personnel health and safety issues as a
priority
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Key considerations for early-on-scene responders
 Air monitoring requirements
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Better characterization of oils regarding: explosive hazards,
benzene levels, VOC’s, H2S
 Personal protective equipment requirements
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Respiratory protection
Clothing protection
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Opportunities for Development
Response Strategies
 Oil-on-water exercises
 Dispersant testing field trials
 In-situ burning
 Windows of opportunity
 Potential use of herding agents
 Oil-in-ice (pack/broken ice)
 In-situ burning
 Dispersant
 Knowledge sharing - academic to application
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QUESTIONS???
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