2014 Worst Case Discharge Exercise Huntington Beach, CA April 30 th –May 2 nd, 2014 Presented By Jill K. Lemon, USCG Contingency Planner

2014 Worst Case Discharge Exercise Huntington Beach, CA April 30 th –May 2 nd, 2014 Presented by Jill K. Lemon, USCG Contingency Planner

The Exercise ConocoPhillips/Polar Tankers, Inc. sponsored this exercise of the Polar Tanker Vessel Response Plan (VRP) Ship Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP) and California Contingency Plan for its fleet of tankers operating in California. Exercise aimed at improving preparedness for response at Polar Tankers/ConocoPhillips and throughout the State of California.

Organizations Involved Various members of the California response community, including representatives from the following organizations: Polar Tankers, Inc. (Polar Tankers) ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. (CPAI) United States Coast Guard (USCG) California Department of Fish & Wildlife, Office of Oil Spill Response (OSPR) NJ Resources, Inc. (NJR) Sound Solutions Consulting The Response Group (TRG)

Exercise Overview The first 24 hours of a response to a scenario consisting of a major oil spill from the M/V POLAR INTREPID on her approach to Long Beach Harbor, CA. This exercise was in a Command Post Style The drill started Wednesday April 30 th at noon, which will simulate being midnight between April 30 th and May 1 st.

Scenario Summary The M/V POLAR INTREPID is inbound Port of Long Beach night of April 30 th in anticipation of discharging full cargo at Pier T, Berth 121 morning of May 1 st. At approximately 2350 on Arpil; 30 th, an outbound vessel loses control and collides with the port side of the M/V POLAR INTREPID. The vessel glances off the M/V POLAR INTREPID causing side-shell damage but does not penetrate the inner hull. The collision holes the 4 Port ballast tank to the sea, an damage extends from above to below the waterline. The main deck is deformed but not ruptured. The vessels separate after the collision.

Scenario Continued While the inner hull was not penetrated, there is a large initial release of approximately 10,000 barrels of Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude indicating internal damage between the ballast and cargo tanks. Cargo continues to be released through the holed ballast tank.

Goals and Objectives Conduct an Incident Management Team (IMT) exercise based on the National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) to include Salvage and Marine Fire Fighting operations, and the newly established State of California Volunteer Coordination processes.

Artificialities The Incident will not be declared a SONS. Disposition of the other vessel involved in casualty will not be a consideration. Terrorism will not be a consideration. Incident Investigation will not be exercised. MTSRU will not be exercised. There will be no serious injuries/ fatalities.

Artificialities Cont. The Global Incident Management Assist Team (GIMAT) will already be in the area for their annual training. Claims processing will be limited to the establishment of a claims number. There will be no actual equipment equipment deployment Weather will be simulated; tides & currents will be real.

Participating Organizations ConocoPhillips: Polar Tankers, Inc. (PTI) / ConocoPhillips Marine Tier 1 Team (MTOT) Global Incident Management Assist Team (GIMAT) Crisis Management and Emergency Response (CMER) Global Marine Salvage Functional Support Team (GMS FST) Industry Partners: Chevron

Organizations Cont. Response Organizations: Global Diving & Salvage (GDS) Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) National Response Corporation Environmental Services (NRCES) Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) T & T Salvage United States Coast Guard: Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB) USCG District 11 (D11) USCG Salvage Engineering Response Team (SERT)

Organizations Cont. Other Federal Agencies: U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) U.S Fish and Wildlife Service State of California: Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW); Office of Oil Spill Response (OSPR) California Office of Emergency Services (OES) Local Agencies: Long Beach Fire Department Los Angeles Fire Department

Organizations Cont. Contractors: Bayside Technical Solutions FOSS Maritime Herbert Engineering NJ Resources, Inc. (NJR0 O’Brien’s Response Management (ORM) PIER Systems Sound Solutions Consultants The Response Group (TRG)

Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) During the exercise, the natural resource trustees exercised their notification and initial coordination protocols as they received information from the Scientific Support Coordinator (SSC), State, and Federal emergency response personnel that the exercise scenario has escalated to a point where there is potential need for NRDA.

Lessons Learned

Safety and Situation in OPS “The practice of imbedding Safety Officer and a Situation Unit staff member in the operations group is a best practice that should be continues for all large- scale events”

Software Issues Working with software inhibited some aspects, and sped-up (skipped valuable portions) of others Difficulty accessing forms in paper Pre-Tactics sped up “The pre-tactics meeting period was being driven by TRG, not the PSC & OSC. As a result, tactics development started before strategies were actually developed and verified.” All 213rr were added to the system, resources became hard to track amongst the “desk chairs and pencils”

Over use of Deputies Operations had (7) Deputies Training artificiality Broken up by discipline, but didn’t coordinate too well Redundancy with Branch Directors Planning had (6) Deputies Training artificiality Assigned to assist Unit Leaders

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