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Annual Report 1998/99
Primary focus during the reporting period was to continue the rolling program to ensure that all ports have a basic set of equipment incorporating booms and skimmers and support equipment to enable a first strike capability. Items delivered during the reporting period included:
- 120 metres of general purpose boom to Christmas Island.
- 500 metres of shoreline protection boom for the following locations:
Fremantle, WA 160 metres
Darwin, NT 140 metres
Weipa, QLD 200 metres.
- 10 recovered oil tanks for the following locations (2 units per site):
Christmas Island
Devonport, TAS
Port Alma, QLD
Thursday Island, QLD
Weipa, QLD
- Four Spate pumps for use with small skimmers for the following locations:
Yamba, NSW
Thursday Island, QLD
Brisbane, QLD
- One sweep boom system to Adelaide, SA.
A Marco Oil Recovery Vessel was ordered for delivery during the next reporting period to Dampier, WA.
During the reporting period AMSA officers carried out audits of National Plan equipment held at Pinkenba in July; Darwin, Gove, Gladstone, Port Alma, Bundaberg and Southport in September; Port Hedland, Useless Loop, Port Walcott, Dampier, Geraldton, Groote Island, Hobart, Bowen, Mackay, Shute Harbour, Thursday Island and Weipa in October; Fremantle, Kwinana, Bunbury, Albany, Esperance, Port Kembla and Lord Howe Island in November; Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Wallaroo, Thevenard, Whyte Island in February; Portland, Newcastle, Eden, Glebe and Botany in April; and Westport, Geelong, Melbourne, Port Welshpool, Cairns, Mourilyan and Townsville in May.
Aerial Dispersant Spraying Capability
AMSA, as managers of the National Plan, and AIP, through AMOSC, have put in place a Fixed Wing Aerial Dispersant Capability (FWADC) for the aerial application of oil spill dispersant. This capability is being provided through a three year contract with Australian Maritime Resources (AMR) based in Adelaide.
In February 1999 the second review of the FWADC Contract was conducted. NPAC’s FWADC Working Group carried out the review.
The Working Group examined the performance of AMR and its sub-contractors since the commencement of the contract, including aircraft availability, training, audit outcomes and other contract deliverables. This also included the monitoring of aircraft availability in Western Australia and Northern Territory. The review formally endorsed the continuation of the Contract in its current form.
As part of the FWADC Contract there is an option to extend the contract for a period of between one and three years (the total contract period shall not exceed six years). AMSA and AMOSC are undertaking an operational and financial review respectively of the current arrangements.
In April and May of the reporting period FWADC training exercises were held in Portland and Newcastle. The exercises were designed to enable State personnel to be trained in setting up loading areas, familiarisation with and working around aircraft and loading of aircraft in support of an operation involving the FWADC. The exercises also enabled pilots to gain additional training in over water dispersant spraying operations.
last updated:
18 June 2001