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OSPAR Role in Offshore Oil and Gas
Darius Campbell, Executive Secretary, OSPAR. EUOAG Meeting, Brussels, 9 April 2013
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OSPAR Convention
Guiding Principles • Ecosystem Approach
• Precautionary Principle
• Polluter Pays principle
• Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BEP)
Main Objectives (…) to prevent and eliminate pollution and (…) to protect the maritime area against the adverse effects of human activities so as to safeguard human health and to conserve marine ecosystems and, when practicable, restore marine areas which have been adversely affected
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OSPAR Strategy
The North-East Atlantic Environment Strategy Part I: Implementing the Ecosystem Approach Part II: Thematic Strategies • Biological Diversity and Ecosystems • Eutrophication • Hazardous Substances • Offshore Oil and Gas Industry • Radioactive Substances
The Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP)
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OSPAR Commission 16 Contracting Parties
• Belgium • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Iceland • Ireland • Luxembourg • The Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • The United Kingdom • European Union
OSPAR Maritime Area and Regions: Region I: Arctic Waters Region II: Greater North Sea Region III: Celtic Seas Region IV: Bay of Biscay/Iberian Coast Region V: Wider Atlantic
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How we work in practice …
• Annual meeting schedule of Contracting parties and observers;
• Lead country approach, intersessional work;
• Programme and measures adopted in the form of Decisions, Recommendations, other Agreements;
• Data, information and products;
• Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme and Quality Status Reports.
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Offshore Industry Committee
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Oil Other substances • Heavy metals • Alkyl phenols • Radionuclides • Chemicals
Associated drilling fluids Oil Chemicals
Drilling and production activities Chemicals
Focus on operational discharges, but…
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What has been done? Discharges of chemicals and oil
Recommendation 2006/5 on a Management Regime for Offshore Cutting Piles
Recommendation 2001/1 for the Management of Produced Water
Decision 2000/3 on the use of Organic-Phase Drilling Fluids (OPF) and the discharge of OPF contaminated cuttings
Use of chemicals offshore
Decision 2000/2 on a Harmonised Mandatory Control System for the Use and Reduction of the Discharge of Offshore Chemicals
Recommendation 2010/3 on a Harmonised Offshore Chemical Notification Format
Recommendation 2010/4 on a Harmonised Pre-screening Scheme for Offshore Chemicals
Decision 2005/2 on Environmental Goals for the Discharge by the Offshore Industry of Chemicals that Are, or Contain Added Substances Listed in the OSPAR LCPA
Recommendation 2006/3 on Environmental Goals for the Discharge by the Offshore Industry of Chemicals that Are or Contain Substances Identified as Candidates for Substitution
Decommissioning
Decision 98/3 on the Disposal of Disused Offshore Installations
Environmental Management
Recommendation 2003/5 on the Promotion of the Use and Implementation of EMS
Offshore Drilling activities
Recommendation 2010/18 on the Prevention of significant acute pollution from offshore drilling activities
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Did it work?
Number of installations with discharges exceeding the performance standard, 2000-2010, and quantity of oil discharged by these installations (tonnes)
• Ageing structures: environmental issues. • the number of installations with lifetimes longer than 20 years • contributions to the emissions to air and into the sea
• Arctic: suitability of existing measures to manage oil and gas activities, links with the Arctic Council; OSPAR measure?
• Review Derogation categories for Decision 98/3 on dumping ban
Other OIC activities
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Gulf of Mexico follow-up: ICG-Drillex
• OSPAR Recommendation 2010/18: on the prevention of significant acute oil pollution from offshore drilling activities
• ICG-DRILLEX:
• Assess other reviews; additional action by OSPAR if needed:
• review existing frameworks, including the permitting of drilling activities in extreme conditions;
• apply all relevant learning from the Deepwater Horizon accident.
• If needed; take action within the scope of the OSPAR Convention.
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Gulf of Mexico follow-up 2010-2013
• Contracting Parties: ‘national regulations robust and fit for purpose, but room for improvement’
• areas identified for improvement
• Workshop: failed barriers and gaps in regulations; needs to be filled by OSPAR?
• Revisit conclusions following adoption of the new EU Directive
• EUOAG: consider both safety issues and environmental impacts: e.g. Dispersants.
• Cooperation with the Bonn Agreement
Bonn Agreement Agreement for cooperation in dealing with pollution of the
North Sea by oil and other harmful substances
• Surveillance for threats of marine pollu6on • Development of common opera6onal methods
• Support in response opera6ons • Sharing research and development • Carrying out joint exercises • Risk assessment
Bonn Agreement: Area-wide Assessment of Risk Evaluation
Photo:David Cayless/Marine Photobank
Co-financed by the EU - Civil Protection Financial Instrument
Risk in Greater North Sea?
• Increasing traffic and vessel size
• Increased transports of oil and HNS
• New mari6me uses and ac6vity – Energy genera6on – Ocean aquaculture – Marine protected areas
• Increased storminess
Traffic analysis 2011 and 2020 based on AIS and Cargo Data
Environmental and Socio-‐economic Sensi6vity Criteria
Quan6ta6ve Risk Assessment for Mineral Oil
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Two Stage project Part 1: Assess oil spill risks
• Shipping routes; marine structures;
• Risks at oil/gas platforms.
Part 2: Scenarios:
• fate and weathering, of potential spills
• socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability of seas and coastline;
• Impacts of scenarios based on this;
• Contracting Parties to develop risk management plans for each sub region; efficient and cost effective.
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