Interspill Conference Schedule and Highlights

Interspill Conference Schedule and Highlights

Conference Chairs - Rob Cox and Rob James

The heart of Interspill is the Conference which presents an opportunity for professionals from the international spill response community, private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations to come together to tackle the greatest challenges facing us with sound science, practical innovation, social engineering, global research and imagination.

The external environment in which the response community works is difficult and evolving at pace. Oil prices have been unstable, there is an evolving energy mix with many emergent fuel technologies as regulators and manufacturers drive to reduce emissions.

Vessels are increasing in size and becoming more automated in operation; the oceans are increasingly busy, but their health is declining and pollutants including debris and plastic threaten the diversity and wildlife within and on which we rely. Oil production is increasingly focused on mature basins, often with ageing infrastructure which poses an oil spill risk,

meanwhile corporate rationalisation has recently seen a lot of internal oil spill resource and corporate knowledge retire from corporations.

At the same time our most important resource, the people in our industry, are drawn from different cultures, religions and genders. When a major incident occurs teams from different nations are expected to work seamlessly together as part of a team to achieve success and safe partnership working.

Our conference will be a face-to-face forum to discuss these issue, showcase innovation and hear case studies that will improve global readiness. It will add true value to those invest in capability, work in response and use the oceans for commerce.

We have been delighted to receive a large number of high quality abstracts whose authors have been invited to submit extend abstracts for the conference committee to finalise the content for the conference in March.

We have created 21 sessions and will be running two, possibly three streams each session.