Ipieca has been working for over 30 years to harness the oil and gas industry’s collective expertise and technology on marine spill preparedness and response. While prevention is always the ultimate goal, Ipieca gives equally high priority to developing the capability to respond to spills. Ipieca develops good practice and facilitates industry forums to share marine spill preparedness and response.
The following resources represent Ipieca’s key technical reports and good practice guidance on marine spill preparedness and response. This includes the work of the five-year Joint Industry Project with the International Oil & Gas Producers Association (IOGP). Our work continues in close cooperation with our industry partners including IOGP.
Launched in 1996, the Global Initiative (GI) is an umbrella programme under which governments, through the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and the oil industry, through Ipieca, work together to assist countries in developing national structures and capability for oil spill preparedness and response.
An Incident Management System (IMS) is essential to optimizing response times and efficiency, providing clarity in command and control, improving resource coordination and communications, and facilitating the cooperation and integration of responding organizations.
This document is aimed at those persons responsible for ensuring that oil spill contingency plans are practised and verified, providing guidance on constructing an exercise programme that is suitable for meeting an organization’s or facility’s requirements.
This document identifies the principal health and safety issues when an oil spill occurs, their degree of severity and the practical steps to minimize the impact of the spill.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.
The UN SDGs, Global Biodiversity Framework and Ipieca's guidance have informed Aramco's new Biodiversity Protection Corporate Policy and standard operating procedure, in which all new projects are required to deliver a net positive impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
At its Gamba-Ivinga field, Assala Energy's electrical submersible pumps were powered by diesel generators, which generate GHG emissions. The Gamba Power Plant (GPP) was completed in September 2021, providing gas-powered energy and the capacity to start replacing some of these diesel generators.
This year's theme, 'MARPOL at 50 - our commitment goes on', reflects the organization's history of protecting the environment from the impact of shipping. Ipieca works to support MARPOL through a range of expertise around technologies, GHG emissions reduction, marine spill preparedness and response, health and safety.