Marine Protection

Our Oil Spill Consultancy Capabilities

We deliver a number of Marine Protection consultancy and modelling intelligence services for oil spill incidents:

Preparation

Riskaware can conduct pre-emptive incident risk assessments to help you prepare effective response strategies for possible marine threats, like tanker oil spills, in advance. Using our incident models, we can provide forecasts showing the evolution of a potential oil spill, highlighting the likely outcomes and areas most likely to be severely impacted.

This initial evaluation supports valuable readiness planning whereby users can ensure the most suitable procedures and equipment are in place for a worst-case scenario event. Our consultants can also provide training and customisation services for our MarineAware solution, which can integrate with detection systems to provide continuous monitoring of a specific area.

Response

Riskaware can provide professional consultancy during ongoing incidents to support organisations with their real-time response. We work with a range of data providers to ensure we have global coverage and that our models are always ready to support the outbreak of a new incident, plus adapt as events change during an ongoing response.

Investigation

Under the MARPOL convention it is illegal not to report spillages at sea. If an unreported oil spill does occur, our consultants can use MarineAware’s source estimation capability to identify the possible origin of the oil. Through the latest machine learning techniques, we can cross-reference the estimated source location with AIS data to highlight vessels which could be responsible. This is both a powerful investigative tool and a deterrent to those who may deliberately cause oil spills through actions like illegal bilge pumping.

Validation

To ensure our models give the most accurate results possible, Riskaware, in conjunction with our partners at the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC), has developed a set of leading, innovative metrics for validating oil spill models.

These metrics have been used extensively to validate our own oil spill models, with STFC acting as an independent assessor. Through our Marine consultancy service, we can also use these established metrics to provide an objective and quantifiable assessment of other models.