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Standards for the Prevention of Oil Pollution in the Arctic Arctic Council SAO Plenary meeting 8-9 March 2017, Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A. Meeting code: ACSAOUS204 Document Title Full Report: Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Agenda item number 3.3.5B Submitted by Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group Document filename ACSAOUS204_JUNEAU_2017_3-3-5B_EPPR_final_report_Standardization_ to_Prevent_Oil_Spills EDOCS # #4110 Number of pages, not including this cover sheet 129 Final report Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Final report: Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Photo: Courtesy of University of Stavanger/NettOp/Ole Andre Hauge Report no.: 1072101-RE-01 Rev. no.: 03 Rev. date: 30.07.2016 Page 1 of 129 Arctic Council – EPPR Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Client: Contact person: Arctic Council - EPPR Ole Kristian Bjerkemo Resume: This final report on “Standards for the Prevention of Oil Spills from Offshore Oil and Maritime Industry in the Arctic” has been prepared for the Arctic Council - Emergency, Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group as a response to the Task Force on Pollution Prevention (TFOPP) Framework Plan recommendation “Promotion of standardization activities”. The work has been financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and administered by the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA). The final report will be presented and discussed at the IOGP workshop in Montreal, June 14th 2016 and at the EPPR workshop June 15-16th. If necessary the report will be updated based on these discussions. A condensed summary report will be prepared for the Arctic Council meeting in 2017. Key word standards, offshore petroleum, maritime, oil spill prevention, Arctic Report no. 1072101-RE-01 Espen Hoell, Karianne Haver, Odd Torstein Mørkve, Jared Eckroth, Ove T. Author(s) Gudmestad (UiS) Confidentiality Internal. For presentation to IOGP and EPPR Revision no. 03 Date revised 30.07.2016 Pages 99 plus Appendices Rev. no. Date Reason for revision 00 06.11.2015 1st draft report - preliminary version 01 27.11.2015 1st draft report – further processing, including some comments 02 01.04.2016 2nd draft report – including comments from EPPR members and others, further processing. 03 20.05.2016 Preliminary Final report - including comments from various organisations. For discussion at IOGP/EPPR meeting and at EPPR meeting in June 2016 04 30.07.2016 Final report including g comments from nnsa.doe.gov and USCG 05 21.11.2016 Incorporated text from Alaska and Norway _____________________ ___________________ ____________________ Prepared by Verified by For Proactima AS Espen Hoell Peer Chr. Andersen Hermann S. Wiencke Report no.: 1072101-RE-01 Rev. no.: 03 Rev. date: 30.07.2016 Page 2 of 129 Arctic Council – EPPR Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Report no.: 1072101-RE-01 Rev. no.: 03 Rev. date: 30.07.2016 Page 3 of 129 Arctic Council – EPPR Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic Table of contents 1 Summary ............................................................................................................................... 8 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 10 2.1 Background ............................................................................................................................ 10 2.2 Scope of work and focus areas .............................................................................................. 11 2.2.1 Scope of work ........................................................................................................................ 11 2.2.2 Focus areas ............................................................................................................................ 11 2.2.3 Scope of work limitations ...................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Method .................................................................................................................................. 12 2.4 Report structure .................................................................................................................... 14 2.5 About standardization ........................................................................................................... 14 2.5.1 standardization in the Petroleum Industry ........................................................................... 15 2.5.2 standardization in the Maritime Industry ............................................................................. 17 2.6 Roles and functions in standardization ................................................................................. 18 3 International organizations and their role in standardization work ....................................... 24 3.1 Arctic Council ......................................................................................................................... 24 3.1.1 EPPR - Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group ...................... 26 3.1.2 PAME- Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group ................................. 27 3.2 AORF - Arctic Offshore Regulators Forum ............................................................................. 28 3.3 IOGP International Association of Oil and Gas Producers ..................................................... 29 3.4 IACS - International Association of Classification Societies ................................................... 32 3.4.1 Classification societies ........................................................................................................... 34 3.5 IMO - International Maritime Organization .......................................................................... 35 3.6 ISO - International standardization Organization ................................................................. 38 3.7 Other international organizations working with standardization ......................................... 42 3.7.1 IADC - International Association of Drilling Contractors ....................................................... 42 3.7.2 IALA – International Association of Lighthouse Authorities .................................................. 43 3.7.3 OCIMF - Oil Companies International Marine Forum ........................................................... 44 3.8 Regional standardization organizations ................................................................................ 45 3.8.1 CEN - European Committee for standardization ................................................................... 45 Report no.: 1072101-RE-01 Rev. no.: 03 Rev. date: 30.07.2016 Page 4 of 129 Arctic Council – EPPR Standardization as a tool for prevention of oil spills in the Arctic 3.8.2 EASC Euro-Asian Council for standardization, Metrology and Certification ......................... 47 3.9 National standardization organizations working internationally .......................................... 48 3.9.1 API - American Petroleum Institute....................................................................................... 48 3.9.2 ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers .............................................................. 50 3.9.3 ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials ............................................................. 51 3.9.4 NACE - National Association of Corrosion Engineers ............................................................ 52 4 National standardization systems and organizations ............................................................. 53 4.1 Canada ................................................................................................................................... 53 4.1.1 CGSB - Canadian General standards Board ........................................................................... 53 4.1.2 Canadian Shipowners Association ......................................................................................... 55 4.1.3 CSA - Canadian standards Association .................................................................................. 56 4.1.4 NRCan - Department of National Resources Canada ............................................................ 57 4.1.5 NEB - National Energy Board ................................................................................................. 58 4.1.6 SCC standards Council of Canada .......................................................................................... 59 4.1.7 UL - Underwriters' Laboratories Inc. / ULC standards ........................................................... 62 4.2 Finland ................................................................................................................................... 63 4.2.1 FSA - Finnish Shipowners Association ................................................................................... 63 4.2.2 Finnish standards Association SFS ......................................................................................... 64 4.3 Iceland ................................................................................................................................... 65 4.3.1 IST - Icelandic standards ........................................................................................................ 65 4.3.2 Orkustofnun .........................................................................................................................
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