U.S.-RUSSIA ENERGY WORKING GROUP
WORKSHOP ON OIL
SPILL PREVENTION AND RESPONSE
December 4-5, 2003
Great Conference Hall,
Ministry of Energy
Kitaigorodskiy proezd,
7
Moscow,
Russia
AGENDA
Thursday, December 4
10:00-10:20 Welcoming Remarks
Oleg Georgiyevich Gordeyev,
Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Vershbow,
U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
10:20-11:00 Opening
Session
Leonard
Coburn, Director, Office of Russian and Eurasian Affairs, U.S.
Department of Energy
Mikhail Ivanovich Faleyev, Deputy
Minister of the Russian Federation
for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Response to Natural Disasters
Viacheslav Vladimirovich Ruksha,
Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian
Federation
Eugeniy Alexandrovich Ivanov,
First Deputy Head of Federal Mining and Industrial Inspectorate
Irina Evgenyevna Osokina,
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian
Federation
11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Working Panel N 1: Oil Spill Prevention
Moderator:
U.S. Leonard Coburn, Department of Energy
Russia:
Nikolay Kapinus, Ministry of Energy of the Russian
Federation
Michael
Jullian, Managing Director, Michael H Julian Pty Ltd.
“Shipping
Standards and Safe Havens,"
Chris Rowsell,
General Manager Shipping Standards, Shell International Trading and Shipping
Company Limited
John Chang, Environmental Engineer,
U.S. Department of Transportation
“Industrial Safety Status at Oil and Gas Complex Sites,”
S. N. Mokrousov, Gosgortekhnadzor of Russia
“Complex
Risk Assessment for Emergency Oil Spills in Oil and Gas Operations of LUKOil
in the Baltic Sea,”
I. A. Zaikin,
Head, Directorate for Industrial Safety and Ecology, OAO LUKOil
“Emergency
Oil Spills: Modeling, Risk-Analysis, Forecast,”
S.
N. Ovsiyenko General Director, EKOSI company
Panel Discussion,
Q&A
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Working
Panel N 2: Oil Spill Response Legislation, Policy and Implementation
in the United States
Moderator:
Vladimir Konovalov, Petroleum Adviser Forum
Edwin Stanton,
Chief, Response Operation Division, U.S.
Coast Guard
David Evans,
Director, Oil Program, Staff, Office of Energy Prevention, Preparedness and
Response, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bill Rogers,
ChevronTexaco Emergency Response Advisor
Edwin Stanton,
Chief, Response Operation Division, U.S.
Coast Guard (USCG)
Panel Discussion,
Q&A
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Working Panel N 3: Oil Spill Response Legislation,
Policy and Implementation in the Russian
Federation
Moderator: Nikolay Kapinus,
Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
“Concept
of Technical Guidelines on Computation of Resource and Force Adequacy for
Response to Emergency Situations Caused by Oil and Oil Product Spills,”
S. S. Savelov,
Office Head, Emercom of Russia
S. V. Ostakh,
Deputy Head, Training and Research Complex, Academy for State Firemen Service,
Emercom of Russia
“Oil and Oil Product Spill Response Arrangements in the Russian
Federation,”
N. I. Burkov,
Deputy Head of State Marine Rescue Service the Ministry of Transport of the
Russian Federation
“Oil
Spill Prevention and Response system in the Russian Ministry for Civil Defense,
Emergency Situations and Response to Natural Disasters,”
A.
A. Popov, Deputy General Director of the Center for Emergency Rescue and
Ecology Operation
“Lessons Learned from Oil Spill Response Activities of OAO NK Transneft,”
Ye. Ya. Radchenko,
Head, Office for Environmental Safety and Regional Nature Use, OAO NK Transneft
“Using Results
of Declaration of Industrial Safety and Risk Analysis in the Area of Oil Spill
Prevention and Response,”
M. V. Lisanov, Department Head, Scientific
Research Center
Industrial Safety, Goskomtecknadzor of Russia
Panel Discussion, Q&A
18:00-20:00 Reception
Friday, December 5
9:30-11:00 Working Panel N 4: International Organizations
and Agreements
“International
Regime of Compensations for Damage from Tanker Oil Pollution, Contemporary
Trends,”
Masamichi
Hasebe, Legal Counselor, International Funds for Compensation of Damage
from Oil Spills
“Norway-Russia
Cooperation on Oil Spill Response,”
Kirsten Selvig, Director General, Ministry of
Fisheries of Norway
“The Role of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation,”
Michael O’Brien,
Technical Advisor, International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation
(ITOPF)
“Activities
of the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation
Association,”
Bill Rogers,
Chevron Texaco Emergency Response Advisor
“Oil
Spill Prevention and Response in the Baltic
Sea Area,”
Kalervo
Jolma, Head of Unit in the Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE
Panel Discussion,
Q&A
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
Working Panel N 5: Models of Effective Oil Spill Best Practices,
Achievements, and Challenges
Moderator:
U.S. Kay
Thompson, Department of Energy
Russia:
Nikolay Kapinus, The Ministry of Energy of the Russian
Federation
“Approach
to addressing environmental problems in the recently created company “TNK-BP,”
Sandy Stash,
Vice-President, HSE TNK-BP
Archie Smith,
Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL)
“Promising
Areas in Emercom’s Development of Technologies and Facilities for Response
to Emergency Situations,”
N. I. Tyagin,
Deputy Head of A Department, Emercom of Russia
I. A. Meritsidi,
Deputy Director General, OAO Geo-Line Group
“Case Examples
of Successes and Failures, Including Transboundary Issues,”
Michael O’Brien,
Technical Advisor, International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation
(ITOPF)
“A System
for Localization and Elimination of Environmentally Hazardous Situations Associated
With Pipeline Ruptures,”
I. V. Ronzhin,
Chief Specialist, EcologyCenter, OOO Yukos-Moskva
“Objectives
of Oil Spill Response Activities and Sources of Information on Advanced Techniques
of Operating in Oil Spill Response,” A. N. Chernoplekov, Director
General, OOO “Technologies: Analysis and Management”
Panel Discussion,
Q&A
13:15-13:30 Closing
session (with press photo up)
Oleg Georgiyevich Gordeyev,
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy, R. F.
Alexander Vershbow,
U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
13:30-13:35 Signing of Joint Statement and Future Work
Plan
13:35-15:00 Lunch
Supporting Documents:
Joint Statement of the U.S.-Russia
Workshop on Oil Spill Prevention and Response
Oil
Spill Preparedness Regional Initiative