BIOREMEDIATION OF OIL SPILLS IN VIETNAM

OIL SPILL RESPONSE IN VIETNAM

HCM City, 02nd June 2005

CONTENTS

1. Oil Spill Risks1.1 Potential risk resources1.2 Oil movement1.3 Resources at risk1.4 Legislation2. Oil Spill Preparedness & Response2.1 Organization2.2 Responsibilities2.3 Key response forces for each region2.4 Other response resource2.5 Response strategies

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1.1 Potential Risk ResourcesFrom oil & gas drilling & producing operations: crude oil being produced, fuel oil of FPSO/supply vesselProducing rate: 400.000 barrels/days aver. Location: occurs mainly in offshore of the SouthFrom sea transportation: DO, FO, LO, KO, condensate (Fuel or goods of tankers)Unloading rate: 7-8 million tons/yearLocation: at inland terminal (10-20km away from the estuaries) and unloading points in Ganh Rai Bay – Vung Tau city.

1.2 Oil MovementMainly depend on time of year and location

Offshore incident (offshore area of the south)In NE monsoon: (from Nov to Mar/Apr) toward the shorelineIn SW monsoon: (from Jun to Sep) drifts away the shoreline(modeling is available)Near shore incident: not easy to forecast the movement direction (modeling is available for few rivers in HCM city, BR-VT province)On river incident: moves quickly & changes dimension after six hours

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1.3 Resources At RiskPresent at almost coastal provincesInvested values of each type of feeding/panting objective could estimate Statistical reports in details are not available

- Tiger shrimp - Oyster/shell farm- Salt farm- Fish/ farm- Lobster farm- Mangrove stand- Seaside resorts- Bird breeding- Tourists, beaches- Fishing spawning area

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1.4 LegislationEnvironmental protection law (EPL), 1995 & circular guidelines to implement EPLPetroleum law (PL), 1993 & circular guideline to implement PLSafety Management Regulations in the Petroleum Activities Decision No. 129/2001/DQ-TTg, 2001 – improved national plan to develop oil spill response capacity from 2001 – 2010Circular No. 2262/TT-MTg, 1995 issued by MoSTE regulating temporarily for responding to oil spill incident

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1.4 LegislationEnvironmental protection law (EPL), 1995 & circular guidelines to implement EPLPetroleum law (PL), 1993 & circular guideline to implement PLSafety Management Regulations in the Petroleum Activities Decision No. 129/2001/DQ-TTg, 2001 – improved national plan to develop oil spill response capacity from 2001 – 2010Circular No. 2262/TT-MTg, 1995 issued by MoSTE regulating temporarily for responding to oil spill incident

2.1 OrganizationNSR Committee

Local Authorities- Port authorities- Militaries

River response teams

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National OSR Centers

Industry stakeholder- VSP- PV Drilling- RDCPSE- PTSC

Shoreline cleanup teams

Offshore response teams

Private Sector - Dai Minh- Thanh Trung

Other support teams

2.2 Responsibilities National Search & Rescue Committee (NSR committee)- Direct & coordinate national centers in tier III incident- Report to the Government the result of response operations

National oil spill response centers (National OSR Centers)- Conduct directly the response operations up to tier III- Coordinate & control directly response teams from other resources attending to the response operations- Report response results to the NSR Committee- National contact point for international cooperating operations

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2.2 Responsibilities Response teams of National OSR Center- Prepare and arrange equipment, personnel, vehicles to carry out response operationsIndustry stakeholder: PV Drilling, VSP, PTSC, RDCPSE, …- Support response teams to carry out the response operations (provide equipment, personnel, chemical, vehicles…)Local authorities: Military, Port Authorities…- Conduct/ support response operations from tier II- Report the responses to People committee

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2.3 Key Response ForcesNavy No. 128 Company (for the north)- Assigned temporarily to respond to oil spill incident in the north- Main working area: Hai Phong Port, Ha Long Bay - Personnel: a small response team- Equipment: some kinds of equipment.- Experiences: 02 years with real incidents

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2.3 Key Response Forces For Each RegionAutumn River Company (for the center)- Officially launches its operations as a NORC in 2003- Main working area: Da Nang Port, Nha Trang & Vung Ro Bay- Personnel: 10 – 15 persons- Equipment: focus mainly on inshore response in this period- Experiences: 02 years with real incidents

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2.3 Key Response ForcesPV Drilling (for the south)- Assigned temporarily to respond to oil spill incident in the south- Main working area: all oil fields in Vietnam territory

oil transferring areas on rivers in VT, HCM, D.Nai..- Personnel: stand-by with 30 trained experts, technicians, operators

back up with app. 150 offshore men- Equipment: diverse & enough to cope with a spill at tier II (booms, skimmers, tanks, chemicals, bio-degradable adsorbent, auxiliaries,…)- Experiences: since 1994, carry out such exercise (6-10 times/year) and respond to real incident

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2.4 Other Response ForcesVSP (Vung Tau)- Activities: stand-by/ respond for VSP’s oil production operations in at offshore oil filed, VSP supply port at VT- Personnel: stand-by with 1 response team (10 trained persons)- Equipment: diverse & enough to cope with a spill at tier II- Experiences: since 1995, carry out 1-2 exercise a year, responded to some spills

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2.4 Other Response ForcesHa Dat, Thanh Trung (VT), Dai Minh (HCM)- Activities: stand-by for oil transferring at few terminals inshore/ on river in Vung Tau- Personnel: stand-by with 1 response team (5 – 10 persons)- Equipment: enough to cope with a spill on river at tier I- Experiences: 2-3 years

RDCPSE - Activities: consult for planning, assess the envi. Impact from a spill, etc.,- Personnel: experts on field of lab, IT, environment, etc,- Facility: lab, treatment facility, software for forecast oil movement, .

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2.5 Response Strategies- Natural clean-up & monitoring- Chemical dispersant- Mechanic containment & recovery- In-situ - Protect the sensitive shorelines- Shoreline clean-up

For each situation, one or combined strategy mentioned above will be chosen to prevent/reduce the affect of a spill to and promote the recovery of the environment

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- Oil spill incident is one of the most potential risks which could affect seriously to Vietnam coastal environment, specially in the south.

- The fundamental regulations/ contingency plans have been issued to regulate, guideline strategies for preparedness & response of oil spill.

- Three NORSCs will be established, developed to cope with a spill up to tier II for each region and cooperate in case of tier III incident

CONCLUSION

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Mangroves in Ba Ria – Vung Tau

Offshore mechanical equipment

Inshore boom

Dispersant heli-spraying set

Hong Anh Incident in Ganh Rai Bay