Contingency plan for hydrocarbon spills in the port of Ibiza

Abstract

The main objective of this work is elaborating a Interior Contingency Plan for a hydrocarbon spill in the Port of Ibiza (Islas Baleares, Spain), in adherence to the Royal Decree 253/2004. Firstly, marine and land environment of the Port of Ibiza is located and described. Secondly, technical characteristics of the unloading point are established in Ibiza´s Port, so that the installations and existing connections. Thirdly, main operations carried out in the zone and which could generate some risk are described. In the fifth place, an inventory of the available human and material means is done. In the sixth place, an Activation Procedure of the plan is established. Here, activation systems in front of a hydrocarbon spill versus the category of the accident and the answer level are described. The conditions which reach to the declaration of the End of the Emergency are defined. However, the plan is not possible to be concluded without previously doing a Revision of the carried out Actuations, so the Contingency Plan on the whole. The object of this revision is the detection of the possible failures for the improvement of future answers. Finally, is necessary to establish Training Programs for the personnel, so doing periodical simulations and exercises, including the bibliography recommended for this course.