BSR responds to oil spill emergencies at product export ports

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Joint Stock Company (BSR) has just organized a drill on response plans for oil spills and fires at the product export port.

The firefighting and oil spill response drill program at the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Product Export Port was organized to comply with legal requirements. At the same time, it improved the capacity and skills of coordinating emergency response. Thereby, BSR checked the readiness of resources and response plans to ensure the goal of effectively controlling incidents of drifting ships, oil spills, and fires at the product export port area. BSR's drill location was held at berths 1 and 2 of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Product Export Port. The practice situation at the grassroots level was assumed to be a strange barge/ship discovered about 1km from the product export port area and drifting towards the product export port of Dung Quat Oil Refinery. At this time, Terminal 2 was exporting DO oil products to a 30,000-ton oil tanker. Due to the crew's uncoordinated opening and closing of valves, the pipe flanges on the ship cracked and DO oil sprayed onto the deck and spilled into the sea with an estimated volume of about 3 tons. During the response on deck, a small fire broke out at the bow of the ship (5m2 area) due to static electricity.

The ship was loading cargo at Jetty port when DO oil was sprayed on the deck and spilled into the sea with an estimated volume of about 3 tons. During the response on the deck, due to static electricity, a small fire broke out at the bow of the ship.

With the above practice situation, BSR has proposed response methods such as blocking and towing the barge/ship to a safe location. Isolate, close the valve, stop the emergency cargo pump at the product export port and activate the fire prevention and fighting system at the port and the ships. Activate the foam spray system when there is a fire or high risk of fire. In addition, the response forces will also tow the oil tanker away from the fuel export wharf if the safety conditions are met and there is no high risk of fire spreading to the export wharf. In addition, deploy oil containment equipment to prevent oil from spreading and collect the oil with oil containment buoys.

Service vessel approached the tanker and extinguished the fire.

At the end of the internship, BSR's professional departments held a meeting to summarize and draw lessons. Mr. Nguyen Van Minh - Deputy Director of Quang Ngai Maritime Port Authority acknowledged and highly appreciated the preparation work for the internship. Mr. Minh assessed that the internship organized by BSR's professional departments was successful, ensuring the requirements for seaport safety. In addition to the achieved work, the Deputy Director of Quang Ngai Maritime Port Authority also requested BSR's professional departments to pay attention to issues such as information work between teams and "acting for real, doing for real" to ensure that they are not surprised in real situations.

The service vessel approached the simulated oil tanker and towed it out of the port area.

Mr. Mai Tuan Dat - Deputy General Director of BSR also highly appreciated the practice work and coordination between the incident response practice teams. Mr. Dat acknowledged that the practice work ensured safety and met the requirements. In addition, the Deputy General Director of BSR also emphasized the importance of incident response work at the port, thereby requiring the incident response teams to ensure information work and scope of operation to continue to ensure safety, prevent and respond to possible incidents.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/bsr-ung-pho-tinh-huong-khan-cap-tran-do-dau-tai-cang-xuat-san-pham-post849877.html