Dimensioning of Norwegian Oil Spill Preparedness: Focusing on the Arctic North Norway and the Barents Sea

摘要

The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) is the authority responsible for governmental oil spill response preparedness in Norway. The presentation will give a general introduction explaining how Norwegian oil spill preparedness is currently organized, and how the NCA use an environmental risk based approach to assess oil spill contingency. The presentation will briefly describe the methodology and approaches used to estimate and identify the specific preparedness level and amount of equipment and resources. Finally the operational preparedness, challenges and a description of the cooperation with Russia in the Barents Sea area is provided.