Memorandum of
Understanding
among
Oil Spill Removal Organizations (OSRO)
to Coordinate and Share Oil Spill Removal Resources
Matt Melton
General Manager
Alaska Chadux Corporation
ARRT January 2015
Legal
The following presentation includes forward-looking understandings. These understandings relate
to potential future events. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is
expressed or forecast in such forward-looking understandings. These understandings are not
guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that
may prove to be incorrect and are difficult to predict, such as oil and gas prices, Alaska snowfall,
flat tires, and/or lousy attitudes of personnel. We caution you not to place undue reliance on our
forward-looking understandings, which are only as of the date of this presentation or as
otherwise indicated, and we expressly disclaim any responsibility for updating such information
or notifying any person or entity of changes in understandings.
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MOU Definition
• OSROs (“Parties”) for the purpose of sharing information
regarding certain oil spill response resources owned or
controlled by the parties, and to describe agreed upon
procedures among the Parties in the event aid or assistance is
requested by a Party.”
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Signatories
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Alaska Chadux Corporation
Alaska Clean Seas (ACS)
Cook Inlet Spill Prevention & Response, Inc. (CISPRI)
Southeast Alaska Petroleum Response Organization (SEAPRO)
Ship Escort/Response Vessel System (SERVS)
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Area of Interest
586,400 square miles
34,000 miles of shoreline
80% of all active volcanoes in US
17 of the 20 highest peaks
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Recitals
• “circumstances may arise in which Response Resources
located outside a Party’s Area of Interest can be utilized as a
means of bringing additional Response Resources to bear
during a spill response.”
• “Parties… may be in a position to provide Response Resources
to another Party in the event of an oil spill.”
• “Parties recognize that in limited circumstances, there may be
a benefit to rendering mutual aid to one another in the event
of an oil spill.”
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Response Resource Database
Coordination
• Parties will use their best efforts to provide one another, upon
request, with information as to the type and availability of
Response Resources in their respective inventories in a timely
and effective manner.
• Parties will jointly implement those procedures reasonable
required to facilitate prompt access to another Party’s
Response Resource Database.
• Each Party will decide which Response Resources to include in
the Response Resource Database.
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Response Resource Database
• ACC: http://www.chadux.com/equipment
• ACS: http://www.alaskacleanseas.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/11/2014-Spill-Response-Equipment-Manual-rev1Compatibility-Mode.pdf
• CISPRI: http://www.cispri.org/capabilities.htm
• SEAPRO: http://www.seapro.org/equipment.cf
• SERVS: http://www.alyeska-
pipe.com/SafetyEnvironment/PreventionAndResponse
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Database Example (SEAPRO)
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Response Resource
Activation
• Upon request a Party will:
• Provide a list of its potentially available Response Resources.
• Provide emergency response activation protocols and contact
information
• Promptly provide information as to the availability of its Response
Resources together with a proposed contract or agreement, including
the rate.
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Need for Response Service
Agreement
• “No Party is obligated under this MOU to Provide any
Response Resource to any other Party in the absence of a fully
executed Purchase Order or Other Suitable Document with
respect to a specific activity or incident.”
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Reality
• OSROs will contract directly with the RP.
• Due to Indemnification and certainty of payment.
• Training & Exercises
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Mutual Aid Drill ACS
Area Table Top Exercise SEAPRO
Advanced Oil Spill Responder (OHMSETT)
Advanced Oil Spill Response in Ice (CREEL)
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Chadux’s MOU Experience
• Chadux & Alaska Clean Seas
• 2014: Mile Post 299 Response - Shore Seal Boom Rental ACS
• Chadux & SERVS
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2009: Pathfinder Response - Chadux used SERVS resources on-scene
2008: Northern Mariner - Mini Barge Rental SERVS
2007: Nordic Viking - Mini Barge Rental SERVS
2001: Windy Bay - Simultaneous Operations Under USCG Direction
• 2004: Selandang Ayu
• All Alaskan OSROs involved
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QUESTIONS
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Bark Lloyd – ACS
Andres Morales – SERVS
Todd Paxton – CISPRI
Dave Owings – SEAPRO
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