Thailand Oil Industry
Tier 2 Oil Spill Response
Capability Management
PAJ Oil Spill Workshop
Dec 12, 2017
Capt. Teerapol Phaparkhorn
PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited
Oil Industry Environmental Safety Group Association

Topics• Background• Role and Responsibility Management• Capability Improvement Management• Summary and Way forward

Recent Thailand
Oil Spill Incident
in Y2013

Recent Thailand
Oil Spill Incident
in Y2013

Improvement in Progress• Review of National and Province Level in regard of Oil Spill
Response Plan
• Review the Frequency of Oil Spill Exercise in each level• Review of Mutual Support Process• Develop Oil Spill Knowledge for other related parties• Improve of Logistics Arrangement and Oil Spill ResponseEquipment

National OSR Plan
• Established April 24, 1995
(B.E. 2538)• First revision proposed tothe Cabinet in 2000
• But was asked to haveadditional amendment• The revision was resubmitted to the Cabinet inMarch 2002
• Received approval, andeffective in August 2002

• National Committee on Oil spill
response was appointed by theMinisterial Regulation in 1995
• The Marine Department and the Royal
Thai Navy were leading agencies• National Oil Spill Contingency Plan ofThailand was established and approvedby the Cabinet in 2002
• Capacity building at National and locallevel• Training programmes for respondersand supervisors• Oil spill response exercise (Local andNational level)

Response Organizations
Committee on the Prevention andCombating of Oil Pollution

Coordination Centre
Command Centre
Operation Unit
Order Line

Support Unit
Coordination LineDESIGNATION OF RESPONSIBLE
AUTHORITYSUPPORT UNIT

OPERATION UNIT
 Marine Department
 Royal Thai Navy
 Provincial Administration
 IESG ( Oil Industry Environmental
Safety Group Association)**** IESG – Private Sector

Army Metrological Department

Airforce

Fishery Department

Marine PoliceAgricultural Aviation



Civil Aviation

Customs

Environment PLA.

Foreign Affair

Pollution Control



Immigration



Local Admin.

Port Authority

etc.

Operation Area

Naval Area
CommandFleet 1

Naval Area
CommandFleet 3

Naval Area
CommandFleet 2Current Tier Concept
Responsible area
and amount of oil
leak

Coordinating
CentreCommand Centre

Operation Unit

Support Unit

Tier 1: Below 20 tons

Marine Department-Spiller/Agency

On requested

Tier 2: Between 20 to
1,000 tons

Marine Department

Marine Department

MD/RTN/IESG

22 Units

Tier 3: Over 1,000tons

Marine Department

MD/RTN/IESG

22 Units

Within Port area

Marine Department

Outside Port area
Tier 1: Below 20 tons

Marine Department-Spiller/Agency

On requested

Tier 2: Between 20 to
1,000 tons

Marine Department

Royal Thai Navy

MD/RTN/IESG

22 Units

Tier 3: Over 1,000tons

Marine Department

Roya Thai Navy

MD/RTN/IESG

22 Units

IESG Members – Oil Company In Thailand

OSR Coordination In Thailand

IESG OSR WorkingCommittee• Bangkok Area
• Sriracha Area
• Rayong Area
• South Area
• Offshore Area

IESG StockpileLocation

Key Stakeholders Capability Development
Training
ExerciseTraining
Exercise
SeminarWorkshop
Training
SeminarWorkshopCertification

Response

Field teams (Gov/Industry)
Above fields team (Gov/Industry)Supporters (Gov/Industry/NGO)•••

Preparedness•••

Equipment custodian/M&R
Response teams (Gov/industry)Supporters (Gov/industry/NGO)

Prevention•••

Tanker owners/operators
Jetty operators, Safety officers
Government Pilots, Inspectors

Training, Seminar, Workshop & ER Exercise

IESG Self Review
StrengthWeakness• National plan & company plan• Experience with major spill• Co-op Assistant agreement• In-country professional service providers• Collaboration & cooperation• Formal or certified training program• Mutual aid arrangement• Adequate response vessels• Tier 1 equipment• Adequate responders in company• Tier 2 equipment• Full exercise of National Plan

• Company response team

• Dedicated co-op/government resources• Government response team

• In-country response center• Regular exercises• Effective equipment M&R program• Equipment M&R program• Budget to replace dated equipment

IESG and Member OSR Capability Management
IESGMembers• Re-organization of permanent staff• Cooperation among Member• Review Oil Spill capability (every 5years)• Shore line clean up plan

• Stockpile management:• Replacement plan
• Increase OSR equipment efficiency• Proactive actions:• Exercise frequency and scope review• Workshop/Seminar• Increase Regional Cooperation amongOil Spill Response Organizations RITAG• OSR Equipment review• Internal and External Exercise• Personnel Competency development

5 Years Capability ReviewArea

Recommendation on equipment

BangkokNo additional equipment needed. Current equipment stockpile via mutual aid arrangement andgovernment resources is sufficient.

RayongNeed additional nearshore booms to protect sensitive areas. A more efficient and suitable at seacontainment system and on water temporary storage tanks are needed to support the existing
offshore equipment due to close vicinity of sensitive areas.

Sriracha

A more efficient and suitable at sea containment system is required to support offshore operations.
Also recommended to have additional dispersant spray systems.

Songkhla No additional equipment needed. However, need to consider limiting dispersant usage based on theoil properties in the areas of operations.
Offshore

Need additional nearshore booms to protect sensitive resources along the GOT, particularly at
Northern GOT and Central GOT. For Southern GOT, it is recommended to have offshore fastcurrent containment system, multi skimmer and on water temporary storage tanks to be stored atSongkhla.

Government’s OSR Stockpile Management
Before Year 2013 Incident
Marine Department• 2 OSR Boats with full stock pile onboard• Tier 2 stockpile at Songkhla province

Royal Thai Navy
• Multi functions Tug boats• Dornia Airplane with 280 Litres
dispersant pack

Government’s OSR Stockpile Management
NowMarine Department• 2 OSR Boats with full stock pile onboard• Tier 2 stockpile at Songkhla province

Royal Thai Navy
• Multi function Tug boats• Dornia Airplane with 280 Litres
dispersant pack – out date
• OSR Equipment• Sea Hawk Helicopters• New Tug boat with OSR capability

The current capability of the Royal Thai
Navy to oil spills response

Regional Industry Technical Advisory Group(RITAG)• The cooperation forum among Oil
Spill Response Organizations(OSROs) within Asia PacificRegion. This working platform
enhanced Technical knowledgesharing, cooperation and goodpractices.
• Currently the member are consistsof COES from China, OSCT fromIndonesia, MDPC from Japan,
KOEM from Korea, PIMMAG fromMalaysia, OSRL from Singapore,and IESG from Thailand.
• IESG is actively participate in thisforum which conducted annuallyand Host is rotation among
available member.

Gap Identification on Sea operations• Delay of spill combat time
• Dispersant spray effectiveness• Night time responseImprovement• Additional OSR Boats• Heli-bucket• Max operation weight 1,270 kg• Max weight without dispersant 260kg• Hawk Owls Aerostat (OverheadWireless Lookout System)• AFEDO Nozzles Boat Spray• UV-Oil Spill Search Light; CL-1002• Fluorometer C-3

AW 139

Way forward• New Criteria for Tier determine• Quantity?
• Time?
• Impact?

• Incident Command System (ICS) Management• Organization?
• Unified Command• Expertise from Oil Industry/Capability Development• Social Media Management

Prevention is better than cureThank you