Analysis of oil pollution at sea by means of sea craft in Spain. Department of Nautical Engineering and Science Technical University of Catalonia Author: Dr. F. Xavier Martínez de Osés Lecturer Secretary for academics Department of Nautic al Science and Engineering Contents 1. Introduction................................................................................................................... 4 2. Contacting with the main department of controlling and following sea pollution in Spain ................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1. Introduction............................................................................................................ 6 1.2. Which department follows sea pollution............................................................... 6 1.3. Equipment and manning of the dedicated establishment ...................................... 8 1.4. What methods are used to control and follow pollution? ...................................... 8 1.4.1. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) .................................................................... 8 1.4.2. Coastal spills................................................................................................... 9 1.5. The available budget for the pollution fighting agency....................................... 10 2. Penalties and fines and their effect on the affected companies .................................. 11 2.1. Main legislation bodies........................................................................................ 11 2.1. Sanctions .............................................................................................................. 11 3. Statistics archives about sea pollution and its results ................................................. 13 3.1. National data........................................................................................................ 13 3.1.1. The last spills in Spanish coasts.................................................................... 15 3.2. International data ................................................................................................. 18 3.3 Quantities of oil spilled and number of accidents in the Mediterranean sea ........ 21 3.3.1. Types of accidents ........................................................................................ 24 4. Hydrocarbon spills at sea, coming from ships............................................................ 29 4.1. Quantification of hydrocarbon spills at sea, coming from ships......................... 29 4.1.1. Types of spills............................................................................................... 29 4.1.2. Accidental spills............................................................................................ 30 4.1.3. Operational spills. ......................................................................................... 30 4.2. Residues coming from the tankers transit around the world ............................... 31 4.2.1. The traffic of tankers with hydrocarbons...................................................... 31 4.2.2. The traffic in Europe..................................................................................... 31 4.2.3. The traffic in Spain ....................................................................................... 33 4.3. Parameters to calculate de oily residues production, generated by the hydrocarbons transport ............................................................................................... 35 4.4. Data from the European Community................................................................... 36 4.4.1. Oily residues production in Europe .............................................................. 36 Oily residues production in Spain........................................................................... 37 4.5. Residues reception facilities quantities................................................................ 39 4.6. Released at sea quantities .................................................................................... 39 4.6.1. The legal releases.......................................................................................... 40 4.6.2. The illegal releases ....................................................................................... 40 4.6.3. The accidental releases ................................................................................. 41 4.7. Port reception facilities ........................................................................................ 41 4.7.1. In Europe ...................................................................................................... 41 4.7.1. In Spain......................................................................................................... 42 5. Civil associations ........................................................................................................ 44 5.1. What would be their contribution to the project.................................................. 44 5.1.1. What points are the civil societies more active?........................................... 44 5.1.2. What contribution would have the civil societies in the project?................. 45 6. Education and prevention of sea pollution from maritime schools ............................ 45 Barcelona November 2006 2 6.1. Introduction.......................................................................................................... 45 6.2. The Specific Case of the Nautical Faculty in Barcelona ..................................... 46 6.2.1. Topics taught on sea pollution...................................................................... 46 7. Searching the systems which were developed for detecting the sea pollution physibility and cost their establishment.......................................................................... 48 7.1. Water quality control........................................................................................... 48 7.2. Pollution tracking and tracing.............................................................................. 48 7.2.1. Teledetection................................................................................................. 48 7.3. Environmental Indicators..................................................................................... 50 7.4. Legal improvements ............................................................................................ 51 7.5. The inspections .................................................................................................... 51 7.6. The economical questions.................................................................................... 53 7.7. The education, dissemination, reporting ands sensibilisation............................. 54 8. Comparing the cost of cleaning of the pollution which was created by the sea and by the land............................................................................................................................ 55 9. Interview ship owners or any authorities and to get their view on the topic .............. 55 10. To contact with persons or foundations that were affected by sea pollution directly and get information from them....................................................................................... 56 10.1. Interview to a Tarragona fishing association master ......................................... 56 10.1. The effect on marine ecosystem of shore pollution....................................... 56 10.2. The effect on marine ecosystem of marine pollution.................................... 57 10.3. Conclusions.................................................................................................... 58 10.2. Administration point of view............................................................................. 59 10.3. Directives from the Spanish Port Board ............................................................ 60 10.4. Residues generation calculation........................................................................ 61 11. What is the effect of sea pollution on ecological equilibrium? ................................ 62 12. Conclusions............................................................................................................... 63 Bibliography ................................................................................................................... 67 Barcelona November 2006 3 1. Introduction This is the final report submitted by the Nautical Engineering and Science department of the Technical University of Catalonia, within the Leonardo de Vinci type A project called: Public, seamen and ship owners to be aware of effective struggle and increasing their sensitivity concerning prevention of polluting the sea by means of sea craft. Around 1,500 to 1,800 millions of crude oil tonnes are transported across the sea every year on board tanker ships. This quantity supposes the 35% of the world sea transport; additionally we should sum around 400 to 500 millions of refined oils tonnes as gasoline’s, fuel oil, etc. Europe is a great consumer of those commodities, receiving up to 500 millions of crude oil tonnes and around 250 to 300 million of refined products tonne, per year. This means that EU needs about 6,000 freights per year in order to cover the crude oil demand, carried out by between 1,500 to 2,000 tanker ships. Figure 1: Main hydrocarbons