Quanzhou Maritime Department Successfully Held 2018 Oil Spill Emergency Drill on the South Coast of Meizhou Bay

In view of the large number of petrochemical enterprises in the south coast of Meizhou Bay, and the characteristics of the jurisdiction where the ships in and out of the bay are frequent, the Quanzhou Quangang Marine Department recently organized the Fujian United Petrochemical Corporation Quanzhou Xingtong Port Service Development Co., Ltd., Fuyuan Company's terminal team, and Quangang Schindler Ltd. to hold the 2018 annual oil spill emergency drill on the south coast of Meizhou Bay at Liyuwei Pier No. 4 berth in order to further improve its sudden ship oil spill incidents response capacity.
 
The drill was simulated that the terminal staff found that the diesel pipeline had a 3cm leakage point at No.4# berth of Liyuwei wharf, and about 5 tons of diesel was leaked. After received the report, the Quanzhou Maritime Department immediately informed the district government general duty room, the Quanzhou Maritime Safety Command Center, the Meizhou Bay Port Authority and other oil pollution emergency member units, and started the oil spill emergency response mechanism. They informed ship pollution removal units, mobilized emergency resources for oil spills, and coordinated emergency commanders of oil spills to control and remove oil spills. The drill was included: accident alarms, emergency start-ups, emergency repairs, maritime alerting, land-based security monitoring of fire safety, lifting of emergency equipment on board, layout of oil booms and diesel recovery, berth fire-fighting facilities, and equipment drills. During the entire drill, there were 7 vessels such as “Sea patrol No.08602”, “Sea patrol No.08605”, Fulian No.505, Fulian No.808, Xingtong No.109, Xingtongdu No. 1 and Xingtongjiao No. 2 ships to participate in drills. A total of 128 people have participated in this drill, an it was used several hundred meters of water oil booms, as well as oil skimmers, oil absorbent mats and oil dispersants.
 
After the drill, Chen Qingyong, the deputy head of the district’s Quangang District, gave a high degree of certainty. He believed that the simulations of the whole drill process were realistic, dangerous situations were handled in place, and the process was smooth, finally it was achieved the expected results. Subsequently, the Quangang Marine Department organized participating units to conduct a summary assessment of the drill and requested all units to effectively strengthen daily emergency drills to further improve the emergency speed and equipment operation proficiency so as to ensure that unexpected incidents such as oil spills are encountered.