Emergency Response Management of Offshore Oil Spills: Guidelines for Emergency Responders

1. Toxic Nature of Crude Oil.

1.1 High Risk Areas.

1.2 Potential Impacts.

1.3 Definitions.

1.4 Examples of Historical Oil Spills and Their Impacts.

2. Origins of Spills.

2.1 Offshore Drilling.

2.2 Case Study.

3. Use of Chemical Dispersants.

3.1 Dispersants.

3.2 Methods of Applicaion.

3.3 Types of Dispensants and Commerical Products.

4. Combating Spills at the Shoreline.

4.1 Chemical Warfare.

4.2 Booms and Barriers.

5. Emerging Technologies.

5.1 Clean World Innovations and EncapSol.

5.2 Centrifuges.

5.3 Skimmers and Response Vessels.

6. Spill Response and Worker Protection.

6.1 Countermeasure Options.

6.2 Spill Response Protocols and Strategies.

6.3 Worker Protection.

6.4 The Oil Spill Response Plan.

6.5 Air Monitoring.

7. Standard of Care and The BP Oil Spill.

7.1 The Impacts.

7.2 The Waxman/Stupak Letter.

7.3 Standard of Care.

Index.

About the Authors.