Offshore Oil Spill Combat Operations During Covid-19 Pandemic
Oil Spill Combat Team (OSCT) Indonesia
Novelina Stephani, S.Si

OFFSHORE OIL SPILL COMBAT OPERATIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Novelina Stephani, S.Si
Deputy Operations Director, Oil Spill Combat Team Indonesia
Presented at Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ) Oil Spill Workshop, 22nd February2022, Tokyo, Japan

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you’re joining us
from, I’m Novelina from Oil Spill Combat Indonesia, it’s a pleasure to speak to all of you
today. We would like to thank to the committee of Petroleum Association of Japan for
inviting us to the Oil Spill Response workshop 2022.

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I’d like to take this opportunity to share our latest offshore oil spill combat experienceduring the covid Pandemic more than a year.
And before we share our experience and lesson learn, please let me to quickly introduce
about our profile and capabilities.

Slide 3:OSCT Indonesia is an oil spill response center located in west Java Indonesia we haveover 6 bases across Indonesia. We have over 44,000 meters of oil boom, 122 oil Skimmer
and 170 trained responders in Indonesia. And we also have bases of operations inThailand and India.

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Slide 4:
As you can see from data 85% of Indonesia territory is ocean, as you can imagine how big
the risk is of spill pollution in Indonesia especially in the marine area. from oil & gas
operation, marine terminal ship to ship and many others sources of oil spill risk, which canpollute sensitive areas & world heritage sites.
As Indonesia’s largest oil spill combat centre & one of the largest in the world this is thebasis of our mission is to protect Indonesia’s & World’s natural environment. And also to
support the Indonesian Government target towards oil production 1 million barrel per daywith the good preparation and prevention of the oil spill.
During the Covid pandemic, we continue to support the Government operations especiallyin the oil & gas activity and it presented challenged and I’ll share you the detail later.

Slide 5:Here some brief detail about our capability and OSCT as National Oil Spill Response
Center is approved by national authorities in Indonesia such as Ministry of Transportation,
Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources and also Internationally Certified by Nautical
Institute According to IMO Standards.
We do maintain this readiness in the pandemic time. We always have with pro-actively
plan and response and we integrated with the strict HSE planning that have been
implemented as well during the last incident in august 2021

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For the mutual cooperation, Currently OSCT Indonesia has signed International
Cooperation MOU with international OSRO in 7 countries for mutual cooperation andassistance to deliver an effective and efficient response. In case of the large of oil spillincident we are able mutual assist for each other and we also are part of RITAG theregional Oil Spill Response Organization in Asia.

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Slide 7:OSCT Indonesia have combated more than 60 oil & chemical spills in Indonesia andaround the world including China, Qatar and Thailand supported by response experts thathave more than 37 years of experience.

Slide 8:
Our latest experience is offshore oil spill due to subsea pipeline leak in Langsa, Aceh
Province, from looking at this map, you’ll see that the langsa is in the top left, It is locatedon the island of Sumatra, north west Indonesia. The incident most challenging because theincident occur is located near the border of Malaysia, passing ships, shoreline sensitive
beaches, settlements and we combated in during Covid pandemic.

Slide 9:As you can see at the map There is Kuala Langsa Banda Aceh with a profile of tourist
beaches, settlements, river, estuary, ponds and There is a Kuala Langsa Mangrove
Tourism Forest, wherein 22 types of mangroves and animals found in that area.

Slide 10:
There was a Major offshore subsea pipeline leak incident. The oil is very light oil. The
incident occurred on August 8, 2021 in Langsa, Aceh. OSCT was notified on August 8,
2021 and we conducted oil spill modeling and provide radar satellite images to predict theoil spill movement and recommend response strategies to mitigate spill before it impacted
shorelines / cross the border.

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Slide 11:
The company has received a Letter of the necessary Approvals from the government andalready has Oil Spill Response Equipment and trained personnel. OSCT has been
appointed the company to implemented the response plan. And the response wasaccording to pre-approved plan

Slide 12:
As you can see from the picture, OSCT was activated on 8th August 2021 this is the firstbubble and carried out trajectory modeling and satellite radar to see oil movement andwhile we supported operations on site. Before we mobilized our personnel we follow theCovid procedure and requirement from Company to make sure the personnel safe &health to work. the team arrived on 9th August 2021 with a physical breakup. They support
to aerial surveillance and prepare for oil boom deployment.
In only five days the static boom has installed with skimmer was completely deployed andwe maintained it for about 2 months. On 18th October, 2021 the spill source it was
successfully closed.

Slide 13:
Here is a brief Movie overview of what’s the incident looks alike. You can see the oil its
very light and use various type of equipment. There was no dispersant chemical use only
mechanical dispersant with ships. We use Skimmer and oilboom almost 4000 meters tocontained the oil.

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Slide 14:This is the recap of the resources used. Over 4.800 meters offshore static boom. The firstlayer is static boom. What is static boom. Static boom is the oil boom works with anchors
to keep it operated continuously. And 2nd layer is moving the dynamic boom and skimmer
to catch the oil that escapes and we also have mechanical dispersant. we use shippropeller to make sure any leftover oil sheen its also disperse naturally without any
chemical If oil spill leads to shoreline, response team is standby with protection boom toprotect sensitive areas.

Slide 15:The static boom containment is pre-planned and this is key. And I’m pretty sure all of us
will agree that The key off quickly successfully response is have a good planning with theoil spill contingency plan so it can be implemented quickly.

And everything was calculated in tier with total 350-400 m oil boom for each configuration
total about 10 configurations total 4000m, we also calculated how many skimmer isrequired to make sure the oil doesn’t escape from the static boom, so 1-2 skimmers tooperate with a capacity of 64-100 m3/hour

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We can see at the picture the static boom that being deployed and there is an oilboom torequired maintenance use vessel to take the static oilboom that should be replace andvessel comes in and skim where ever oil a rise on sites.
It was over 40 trained responders with over 250 assist personnel with 10 vessels and weuse strict health procedures during this the covid pandemic. We use basically antigen test
which is mandatory for all personnel before travel, when arrival and also the basic concept
is we keep the personnel distancing when traveling and where they stay individually hence
if one person tested positive then it will not disturb the rest of the team.

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Additionally, we had backup teams in place, for example if we have to mobilize 10
personnel, we will instead mobilize 14. But the 14 personnel will be mobilized separately
divided into separate flights, cars and hotel rooms. Basically that is the arrangement that
we implement.

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For the skimmer that we used is Disc Skimmer for Light Crude Oil. You can see here theoil can be recovered as long as oil contained in the boom and then the oily wateraccommodated in IBC tank on board the ship and mobilized to Shore base and then
immediately taken to the processing facility. And there is almost no waste that restore at
the shore base.

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There is an absorbent boom for used. This is one of technic that we implemented for theoil very light that not effective to use the skimmer. The absorbent is installed in a front of
the Static Boom configuration to absorbs any oil sheen left. But there is only effective forany oil sheen.

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This is the propeller wash and fire monitor for used for oil very light. We did some testingwith dispersant compere to mechanical and fire monitor. Actually, the mechanicaldispersant does the exact same thing that dispersant does but the pressure from the firemonitor and propeller wash that actually that processes the oil not the chemical. Because
you can see the oil sheen color is silverish and the thickness its only 0,0001 milimeters itsvery in sheen which actually disperses by using only propeller and fire monitor, so
dispersant wasn’t effective for very light oil.

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Slide 20:
As a preventive strategy before oil spills reach sensitive areas, we had shoreline action
equipment already. that we can see in this picture, we had survey all this location so incase there any complain or any fisher man that come forward we have team stand by totake their input to just survey verify and immediate response.

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If you can see this is the overview response strategy and planning.
There is the near shore containment, 1st layer, 2nd layer, the static boom and mechanicaldispersant, we had surveillance detection, daily helicopter, weather surveillance,
everything was deployed there and drone as well.

Slide 22:
So the resources we have our stockpile for Jakarta and Batam allocated for the response.
There are 21 km offshore boom and 22 km shoreline boom available domestically for Tier2/3 response. OSCT Indonesia resources can fulfill several oil spill incident responses.

Slide 23: Offshore Response Chart
So there are few lesson learn that we can take based on our experience response during
Covid Pandemic.
One of the most important thing is covid-19 protocols. We need to make sure that every
personnel are aware about the protocols itself. Some people are confused, some people
doesn’t know the protocol so we always encourage them to ask and read. And we also
have more HSE personnel to monitor their movements.
So one of the basic things is complying with the departure requirements, they got tested
first before they go. And we have a journey management plan, so they have to stick withthe plan. They are not allowed to mingle, if they do then they can do it online to minimize
the risk.

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Medical clearance means everybody has to be healthy. If they don’t pass the MCU test
obviously they can’t go.
And we also have on the response location, vessel masters and everyone that havefindings every two weeks was tested on the vessel.
Command post, this is one of other things that provides us good lesson learnt andchallenges. Everything in the command post done virtually so we can have command post
on-site. They were all in their rooms. So everything was done online including the incident
management team. There was about 40 of us online at one time. We have breakout rooms
and it is on-going for almost 3 months non-stop. Briefing everyday morning and afternoon.
It worked as long as you set a proper rules and also proper technology.
Oil spill response for Langsa Spill, is quite challenging due to occur in the pandemic Covid19 situation, total personnel onboard about 252 for SERT (Site Emergency ResponseTeam) active on-site complete screening test (PCR/Antigen) and quarantine. In addition,technical meetings and command post was conducted by online which has
miscommunication and miss interpretation. This was handled well during incident withproactive planning such as briefing teams how to enter location properly, latest online
video conference technology usage and backup teams to support on-site team. And we
also have backup teams so in case there’s a finding or somebody’s tested positive they
get replaced immediately.

Slide 24:
That concludes my presentation for today. The Summary Lesson Learnt base on our
experience combating in the pandemic time are:
There are three things to consider :1. OIL SPILL COMBAT PLAN & PREPAREDNESS
Especially For oil & gas operation, it is important to have pre-approved contingency
plan for effective & quick response complete with covid pandemic mitigation plan

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2. EFFECTIVE RESPONSE STRATEGY•

Static boom is also important for effective response•

And one of things that we learn if the oil is very light, it’s didn’t have to use thedispersant.
and the location is very sensitive near to the borders and there is passing ship•

as well so it’s important that have ship to notify the vessel make sure they don’t
go to where the boom is.
3. RESPONSE DURING COVID-19
You can see this 5 things that we hear to :1. Health Protocol from origin City: very important to have a Health Protocol
Improvements for next response, have pro-active antigen/PCR Tests for off-duty
personnel to ensure when they are on-duty they would be ready to be mobilized
and ensure all ready-teams have PCR/Antigen tests already tested on weeklybasis
2. Follow the Quarantine session & Screening Test
3. Everybody should have Medical Clearance.
4. Assignment for Response should to be clear so you can’t jump to vessel toshould follow the protocol onsite as well and everything in the command
post to be done online
5. Virtual Incident Command Post, good reliable internet connection is required andshould be prepared beforehand for all command center/post members.

Slide 25:
That brings us to the end of the presentations. Hopefully its can useful for all of us.
I would like to thank you to honor committee, all the wonderful speaker today and all theparticipants thank you for taking time out your busy schedule, that means the worlds tome.

Stay safe, stay health and bless you all

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