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Be ready for tomorrow, join us today. At OSRL, we provide expert oil spill response services to help protect our members, their stakeholders, and the environment.
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OSRL delivers global preparedness and response services, helping members reduce risk, build resilience, and respond rapidly to oil spills of any scale, anytime, anywhere.
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Training
Build your oil spill response capability with accredited training year-round. Courses include OPRC (IMO equivalent), OPEP, MCA, and IMS—available face-to-face, distance learning, or on-demand. Customisable options available.
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Over 40 years of spill response expertise, case studies, and field guides. All resources are free to access, explore, download, and stay prepared.
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Through our global network, we build strategic partnerships with key industry stakeholders to drive good practice.
About
OSRL is the world’s largest industry-funded cooperative for oil spill preparedness and response. We work with members, regulators, and industry stakeholders to strengthen global spill response capability, ensuring that the industry is ready to respond anytime, anywhere.
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Discover principles for crisis communication in the context of oil spill response. Explore how effective crisis communications planning can mitigate damage and uphold reputation.
This ninth session sees Andy Nicoll, discuss the use of dispersants in spill response.
Hiring oil spill response equipment is an option worth considering when identifying your operational requirements.
How Tullow Ghana is partnering with OSRL and key local stakeholders to ensure it’s ready for any eventuality.
With the next energy revolution brings new challenges and risks. Will the learning processes remain valid and fit for purpose in the brave new world?
This fifth session sees Global Engagement Manager and OSRL Expert, Marcus Russell, discuss the considerations and tactics used in shoreline clean-up.
In this seminar our experienced readiness team talk about the readiness priorities for onshore activities.
Nick Dyer, Spill Response Specialist, discusses how conventional spill response clean-up methods could affect groundwater and subsoil clean-up.
The Montara spill released 30,000 barrels of oil over 74 days in the Timor Sea. Learn how OSRL led a Tier 3 response to contain the spill and protect marine ecosystems.
Interestingly, there are more inland oil spills than marine spills globally. How can we best mitigate the damages caused by inland spill incidents?