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Oil Spill Organizations and Resource Providers

Governement Agencies

Australia	Latvia
Belgium	Lithuania
Cyprus	Malta
Canada	Netherlands
Denmark	Norway
Estonia	Poland
Finland	Portugal
France	Slovenia
Germany	Spain
Greece	Sweden
Iceland	United Kingdom
Ireland	United States
Italy

International Organizations

International Maritime Organization (IMO)

International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

World Bank Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals

General Information

Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway

Norwegian Oil Spill Control Association

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

Oil Industry

American Petroleum Institute (API)

Association of Petroleum Industry Cooperative Managers (APICOM)

Regional Association of oil and natural gas companies in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARPEL)

UK Spill, British Oil Spill Industry Association

Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe (CONCAWE)

European Oil Refining and Marketing Industry (EUROPIA)

International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA)

Mediterranean Oil Industry Group (MOIG)

International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP)

Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ)

Regional Clean Sea organisation (RECSO)

Spill Control Association of America (SCAA)

Oil Spill Control Association of France (SYCOPOL)

The Great Lakes Spill Protection Initiative

The Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC)

Regional Organizations

BONN Agreement

Caspian Environment Programme (CEP)

Commission for the Protection of the Black Sea

Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (PCSP)

European Community Information System

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

Helcom Maritime and Response Groups (Baltic Sea)

Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)

NOWPAP MERRAC

Oslo-Paris Commission (OSPAR)

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (Malta) (REMPEC)

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean (REMPEITC-Caribe)

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

The Blue Plan Environment and Development in Mediterranean Region

The European Commission - Energy and transport DG

European Commission / DG Environment: Contingency Organisation

European Commission / DG Environment: Community Information System (CIS)

UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme

UNEP Regional Seas

European Space Agency (ESA)

European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)

European Maritime Industry Forum (MIF)

Response Organizations

Eastern Canada Response Corporation

Western Canada Marine Response Corporation

Point Tupper Marine Services Corporation

Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre (AMOSC)

Clean Caribbean & Americas (CCA)

Centre de Documentation de Recherche et d'expérimentations sur les pollutions accidentelles des Eaux (CEDRE)

East Asia Response Ltd (EARL)

Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC)

Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies (NOFO)

Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL)

Petroleum Association of Japan Oil Spill Response Dept. (PAJ-OSR)

Cleanupoil: The international directory of oil spill cleanup contractors

Shipping

International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO)

International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF)

Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF)

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS

Environment

European Centre of Information on Marine Science and Technology (EUROCEAN)

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)

European Science Foundation Marine Board (ESF-Marine Board)

UN Atlas of the Oceans

NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Long-Term Monitoring Program

Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI)

European Commission/ DG Research: Cordis database: Oil pollution related R&D projects database (e.g. Oceanides, Themes, Cleopatra, Dismar, ARCOP, MERSEA)

Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA)

Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)

Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Marine Science and Technology - Maritime R&D projects database

Spanish Scientific Intervention Program Against Accidental Marine Spills

TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation: Oil Spill Response Research, Development and Consulting

Modelling and monitoring

Météo-France

Canadian Space Agency

RadarSat International

SeaDarQ: radar spill detection and oil recovery (associated to TNO Physics an Electronics Laboratory), Netherlands

Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models : Emergency interventions, Belgium (MUMM)

AIS Live - Overview of vessels' position

European Group of Experts on Satellite Monitoring of sea-based Oil Pollution (EGEMP)

European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET)

Earth Observation Portal (ESA/EO)

European Space Agency Multimedia Gallery (ESA)

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

Development of operational oceanography in European sea areas (EuroGOOS)

European Satellite Navigation System (GALILEO)

Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

The International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG)

US National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Sea WiFS Project (NASA)

Satellite imaginary (UNOSAT)

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center: DISMAR (Data Integration System for Marine Pollution and Water Quality) (NERSC)

Research

SL Ross Environmental Research Ltd.

AEA Technology UK

AIP - Australian Institute of Petroleum

API - American Petroleum Institute

ETC - Environmental Technology Centre Canada

IFP - Institut Francais du Petrole

NMRI - National Maritime Research Institute Japan

TNO - Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

SINTEF - Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research: Oil spill, contingency and response, Norway

MMS - Minerals Management Service: Oil Spill Response Research Program, United States

GESAMP - Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection

ICCOPR - Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research

Equipment Manufacturers

Canflex USA Inc

Equipment Suppliers

Offshore Technology

Spill History

Cedre inventory

ITOPF Statistics

NOAA - Historical Incidents Database

Bonn Agreement Incidents Reporting scheme (North Sea)

Environment Canada's - Tanker Spill Database

HELCOM - Ship Accidents and combating sea-based pollution in the Baltic Sea

MAIF-Marine Accidents Investigator's International Forum

MARS - International Marine Accident Reporting Scheme

Sea-Web: Lloyds register - Fairplay Register of Ships™ and List of Ship owners™ on the Internet. Find casualty incident or view a ship's casualty history

Glossaries and Journals

EEA - European Environment Agency: Multilingual Environmental glossary

IMO/UNEP, Regional Information System-Concise Dictionary of Marine Anti-Pollution Terms (REMPEC, 2003)

GPA - Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway: Oils glossary

Golob's Oil Pollution Bulletin

Hazardous Cargo Bulletin

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Oil Spill Intelligence Report (OSIR)

International Oil Spill Conferences

Interspill Conference

International Oil Spill Conference

Spillcon International Oil Spill Conference

International Oil Spill Technology Seminar

Preparedness and risk assessment

Sub-regional Risk of oil and hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea (BRISK)

Bonn Agreement Counter Pollution Manual (2004)

HELCOM Clean Seas Guide - The Baltic Sea Area (2009)

EMSA Action plan for Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response

HELCOM Response Manual: Vol I (Oil)

HELCOM Response Manual Vol II (Chemicals)

IMO/UNEP, Regional Information System-Operational Guides and Technical Documents "Guide for combating accidental marine pollution in the Mediterranean" (REMPEC, 2000)

US Coast Guard: Incident Management Handbook (2001)

IPIECA - Publications

EEA - European Environment Agency: Indicator of Accidental Oil spills from Marine Shipping

MMS - Minerals Management Service: Oil-Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA)

SINTEF - Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research: modelling tools for environmental risk analysis and impact assessment

TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation: accidental spills risk assessment models

Oil properties

API - Fate of spilled oil in marine waters: Information Booklet for decision-makers (Americam Petroleum Insitute)

European Commission / DG Environment: Summary of Oil properties

Environment Canada's - Oil Properties Database

Environment Canada's - Oil, Water and Chocolate Mousse

ITOPF - Fate of Marine Oil Spills (ITOPF Technical Information Paper)

GPA - Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway: Facts on Oil - Hydrocarbons

MMS - Minerals Management Service : Properties and Behaviour of Spilled Oil

MUMM - Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models: Modelling of the behaviour of hydrocarbons

NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Aid for Oil spill response

Response Equipment

GPA - Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway: Response Techniques

Absorbents

Cedre - Tested Sorbents

Chemicals

ITOPF Technical Information Paper: The use of chemical dispersants to treat oil spills

Cedre - Tested Dispersants

Surveillance - Modelling

SSC (Swedish Space Corporation), Airborne Systems

Aerial Surveillance Handbook (OTSOPA 2004)

NOAA - Oil Spill Softwares

Severe Weather Information Centre