Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Marine Oil Spill Response and OPRC Regimes glossary (page 2)
Terminology of oil-spill preparedness and response under the OPRC framework: dispersant types and aerial application from fixed-wing and ADDS-Pack aircraft, oleophilic and air-conveyed skimmers, adsorption recovery mechanisms, aerial surveillance via SLAR and CleanSeaNet, and the response organizations, equipment suppliers and trade bodies supporting at-sea and shoreline cleanup.
303 defined terms.
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S
- SPM Buoy
- Single Point Mooring, both a spill source and a recovery work area.
- SSDI
- Subsea Dispersant Injection, the deployment technique using Corexit 9500 injected via ROV wand at the BOP plume, pioneered at Macondo.
- Storage Bladder
- Towed flexible tank such as the Lamor Tube or Canflex Sea Slug.
- Stormy Sea Test
- Boom acceptance test at ASTM F-1523 wave heights of 0.6 m or above.
- Strike Team
- USCG National Strike Force units in Mobile, Fort Dix, and Novato.
- Subsea Capping Stack
- 100-ton subsea valve assembly designed to seal a flowing well, with shear ram and lower master valve.
- Subsea Containment
- Recovery of hydrocarbons through capping stack flow lines to surface processing on Helix Producer I or Q4000.
- Sumed Pipeline
- Egyptian crude pipeline, basis of Mediterranean Tier 1 / 2 stockpile planning.
- Supplementary Fund 2003
- IOPC Supplementary Fund Protocol providing third-tier compensation up to 750 million SDR including CLC and 92 Fund.
- Surfactant Solubilization
- Mechanism by which dispersant moves oil into the water column as droplets typically below 70 microns.
- SWAG
- Subsea Well Access Group.
T
- Tanker Owner Voluntary Agreement (TOVALOP)
- Predecessor compensation system terminated February 20, 1997.
- Tar Ball
- Weathered oil residue stranded on shorelines, recovered manually or by SURF RAKE.
- TAS
- Tasman Spirit case, 2003 Karachi spill.
- TC Energy Skimmer
- Sample brush skimmer.
- TECNADYNE
- ROV servo manufacturer used on subsea dispersant injection wands.
- Tier 1 Response
- Operator level spill response from on site resources.
- Tier 2 Response
- Regional industry and government response.
- Tier 3 Response
- National and international OSRO response.
- TIP
- Tactical Information Packet under ICS Planning.
- TM5240
- NOAA technical memorandum on dispersant decision-making.
- Top hat
- Reference flange detail nickname.
- Top Kill
- Source control method of pumping kill mud into a flowing well, attempted unsuccessfully at Macondo.
- TOPAZ Capping Stack
- OSRL's 18-3/4 inch 15,000 psi subsea capping stack at Stavanger.
- Torrey Canyon
- 1967 grounding off Cornwall releasing 119,000 tonnes of Kuwaiti crude, catalyst for IMO MARPOL development.
- TOVAL Skimmer
- Generic abbreviation for various lipophilic vacuum skimmer.
- Transrec Skimmer
- Frame Group offshore weir-disc skimmer system in widespread NOFO use.
U
- UAV Surveillance
- Unmanned aerial systems such as the Schiebel Camcopter S-100 contracted by EMSA for spill detection.
- UC
- Unified Command, the ICS structure under which federal, state, tribal, and responsible party leadership share decision authority.
- UFC 3-260
- US DoD pavement and airfield standard, relevant to staging-area construction.
- Ulju Class
- Korean Coast Guard response vessel class.
- UNEP/MAP
- UN Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan, parent body of REMPEC.
V
- VHF Channel 16
- International distress, urgency and calling frequency monitored by ships and shore stations.
- Vikoma
- UK based manufacturer of oil spill response equipment.
- Viscoelastic Oil
- Highly weathered crude or HFO whose rheology resists pumping and dispersion.
- VLSFO
- Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil with sulfur content at or below 0.5 percent mass, used to meet IMO 2020 outside emission control areas.
- Volcanic Origin Coast Survey
- SCAT subcategory for Mauritius and Iceland shorelines.
- Vortex Skimmer
- Skimmer using induced rotation to draw oil into a central drain, e.g., Megator type.
W
- Wakashio
- 2020 Japanese owned bulker grounded on Mauritius reef, broken in two for removal.
- Weathering
- Combined processes (evaporation, dissolution, dispersion, emulsification, photo-oxidation, biodegradation, sedimentation, sinking) altering spilled oil composition.
- Weir Skimmer
- Skimmer using a weir set just below the oil-water interface and a pump to lift the upper layer.
- Wild Well Control
- Houston-based well control company providing capping and source control under MWCC and HWCG contracts.
- WIO RPRC
- Western Indian Ocean Regional Pollution Response Centre at Mombasa.
- WMU
- World Maritime University, IMO's postgraduate institution in Malmo, Sweden.
- WPRO
- West Pacific Regional Office (illustrative WHO acronym, used in spill health assessment).
X
- X-Bow Hull
- Ulstein design used on Norwegian offshore response vessels.
- X-Press Pearl
- The container ship that caught fire and sank off Colombo, Sri Lanka in May and June 2021, generating one of the most significant container-related environmental incidents and large insurance and…
- XR Forecast Tool
- NOAA experimental dispersant model.
Y
- YPF Stockpile
- Argentinian state oil cooperative stockpile at Comodoro Rivadavia.
- Yuyo Maru No. 10
- 1974 Tokyo Bay collision of LPG/naphtha tanker with the freighter Pacific Ares, source of revised Japanese spill response.
Z
- ZJ Boom
- Yangtze-region permanent boom installation standard.
- Zone Defense Plan
- USCG Captain of the Port plan listing OSROs, response equipment caches, and priority protection sites.
- Zooplankton Toxicity Testing
- Acute toxicity benchmark for dispersed oil under EPA LC50 protocols using Mysidopsis bahia and Menidia beryllina.