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The calm weather helped the success of HELCOM BALEX DELTA, the regular Baltic oil response exercise, which was completed off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany under the direction of the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME). The annual exercise, one of the largest worldwide, included 23 oil response ships from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden, along with two aeroplanes and a helicopter, practising the successful response to a major oil spill. »» 0 comment(s)
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| 14/06/2013 |
 Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL, headquartered in the UK) has opened a new base with enhanced response capabilities at Loyang in Singapore. This is described as a milestone event for the maritime and oil and gas industries in the Asia Pacific region, bringing together expert personnel and equipment resources in a single place so as to deliver an integrated, swift and effective response to an emergency oil spill incident. »» 0 comment(s)
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The Pacific Strike Team (PST), stationed at Novato, CA, USA, and the Coast Guard cutter Aspen, homeported in San Francisco, conducted an oil spill response training in the San Francisco Bay on Thursday, 13 June 2013. Coast Guard members assigned to the PST supported the crew from the Aspen to ensure that their spilled oil recovery system was in working condition, and to help them become more proficient. »» 0 comment(s)
Following the extensive three-year cleanup effort, the U.S. Coast Guard is ending active cleanup operations in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and has announced that the states are to complete the transition back to the National Response Center (NRC) reporting system by mid June 2013. The announcement comes as a result of the extraordinary progress made in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. »» 0 comment(s)
The supply vessel International Carrier ran aground in the Gulf of Mexico off privately owned San Jose Island with 10,000 gallons of diesel aboard earlier this year. General Land Office Senior Response Officer (SRO) James Duenes and U.S. Coast Guard - Sector Corpus Christi Chief Creager responded to the grounding aboard the GLO’s 25-foot response boat. Upon arrival at San Jose Island, SRO Duenes discovered that the International Carrier was still afloat and had lost steering due to an air compressor failure. 
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) director James Watson and U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for regulating mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Through this agreement, both BSEE and the U.S. Coast Guard will work together to identify and coordinate responsibilities for inspecting and overseeing MODUs. 
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