Oil Spill Organizations and Resource Providers
Government Agencies
A list of Government Agencies responsible for preparedness and response to oil pollution incidents is available here.
International Organizations
- International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPC)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- World Bank Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals
General Information Oil Spill Response
Regional Organizations
- Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME)
- Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre (MEMAC)
- BONN Agreement
- Caspian Environment Programme (CEP)
- Commission for the Protection of the Black Sea
- Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (PCSP)
- Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)
- European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
- Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)
- Helcom Maritime and Response Groups (Baltic Sea)
- Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
- Northwest Pacific Action Plan Marine Environment Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre (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
- UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme
- UNEP Regional Seas
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
Oil Industry Association
- 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)
- The global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues (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
Response Organizations
- Eastern Canada Response Corporation
- Western Canada Marine Response 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)
- 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
- International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF)
- Global Response Network (GRN)
- LAMOR Corporation
Shipping
- International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO)
- International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (INTERCARGO)
- 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
- Society of Marine Industries
- European Commission Community Research and Development Information Service: CORDIS
- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA)
- Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)
- European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- Marine Science and Technology
- 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
- SeaDarQ: radar spill detection and oil recovery
- Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models: Emergency interventions (MUMM)
- AIS Live - Vessel tracking
- European Group of Experts on Satellite Monitoring of sea-based Oil Pollution (EGEMP)
- European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET)
- Earth Observation Portal (EO)
- European Space Agency (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 (NERSC)
- Severe Weather Information Centre
- SSC (Swedish Space Corporation), Airborne Systems
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- MDA
Research
- SL Ross Environmental Research Ltd
- Ricardo-AEA Technology
- AIP - Australian Institute of Petroleum
- API - American Petroleum Institute
- ETC - Environmental Technology Centre Canada
- IFP Energies nouvelles
- 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
- GESAMP - Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection
- ICCOPR - Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research
- BSEE (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement)
Response equipment
Wildlife