Each year Petroleum Association of Japan brings new and interesting topics to the workshop to illustrate the development of response and preparedness strategies based on the lessons learned from major incidents such as “Exxon Valdez” 1987, “Gulf War Oil Spill” 1991, “Nakhodka” 1997, “Deep Water Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico” 2010 and other notable events. Mauritius oil spill in 2020, one of the recent topics, was picked up, too, as a case for a major oil spill of very low sulfur fuel oil. This year Petroleum Association of Japan plans to hold the 11th Oil Spill Workshop to discuss the “Oil Spill Prevention during a Civil War, Recent Oil Spill Response and Effective Public Relations”.
We will hear from one of the team on how one of the most potentially damaging environmental disasters was averted this year off the coast of Yemen, in the Middle East where the FSO “SAFER”, built in 1976 with 1.1 million bbl of crude oil aboard was of huge concern globally. Oil transfer operations stopped in 2015 due to the civil war in the country and the vessel had not been maintained since then. In 2023, under a rescue operation led by United Nations, a team went in and exchanged the vessel, and completed the ship-to-ship transfer of oil to prevent any environmental damage.
Public Relations has become a very big element of any successful response incident, and we will hear from the leading company in this field about the importance of managing this element of the incident most effectively based on actual incident cases. ITOPF will give us their presentation of recent case studies and Oil Spill Response will set the scene with their keynote presentation about preparations for the future.
After all presentations have been given, the session will be opened to the audience of this Workshop for free discussion with each presenter to deepen and confirm understanding of the issues raised and to answer any questions that the audience may have.

Opening Workshop

Opening Address

Mr. Yasuhiko Oshida

   Senior Vice President, ENEOS Corporation

   Chairman, OSR Measures Committee, PAJ

Speech by Honorable Guest

Mr. Kenji Miyano

   Fuel Supply Infrastructure Policy Division
   Natural Resources and Fuel Department
   Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI

Open Session with Speakers

Closing Remarks

Mr. Shinya Okuda

   Senior Managing Director, PAJ