Larsen & Toubro is a major engineering conglomerate that provides oil spill control services through its subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering. L&T Hydrocarbon has vessels and equipment to assist with offshore oil spill responses and has experience working on projects around the world. The document discusses oil spill response equipment, case studies of oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon incident, and protests against oil companies like BP for their environmental impacts.

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PERSPECTIVE FROM HYDROCARBON INDUSTRIES
Surendra Jagtap
Group HSE Head
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, Powai Mumbai

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Larsen & Toubro is a major technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services
conglomerate, with global operations. L&T addresses critical needs in key sectors - Hydrocarbon, Infrastructure,
Power, Process Industries and Defense - for customers in over 30 countries around the world.
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE - http://www.lnthydrocarbon.com ), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), serves the Oil and Gas sector around the world. Organised under Offshore,
Onshore, Construction Services, Modular Fabrication and Engineering Services verticals, the company delivers
'design to build' engineering and construction solutions for oil & gas processing, petroleum refining, chemicals &
petrochemicals and fertilizer sectors. In-house expertise and experience, synergized with strategic partnerships
enable us to deliver a single point solution for every phase of a project – from front-end design through
engineering, fabrication, project management, construction and installation right up to commissioning. At
present we have around 35 major ongoing hydrocarbon projects including on and off shore oil & gas in India
and Middle East region.

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L&T Hydrocarbon-Offshore has two vessels, namely: LTB 300 and LTS 3000
L&T has successfully delivered EPIC services for many projects in the offshore hydrocarbon sector over the last two
decades in India, Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia and Australia to reputed international companies like ONGC,
British Gas, Songas, Qatar Petroleum, GASCO, Petronas, Shell, MODEC, Technip, Maersk Oil and Bunduq. The
Company has successfully completed mega projects dealing in production of platforms, process facilities, subsea
pipelines, offshore & onshore pre-assembled modules and large topsides suitable for FPSOs and offshore.
 Pipelay barge (LTB 300) owned and operated by LTHE enables in-house installation of pipelines and subsea
works
 Heavy-lift-cum-pipelay vessel (LTS 3000), built through a JV with Sapura Kencana Petroleum Berhad of Malaysia,
enables in-house installation of offshore platforms and pipelines.

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Types of Marine Spill Emergencies:
1. Subsea Pipeline Oil Leak
2. Third Party dumping at Sea
3. A barrel of oil dropped at the jetty
4. Rubber fire and loss of diesel fuel at the Oil Spill
Response Centre
5. Boat sinks in heavy weather
6. Oil Spill Report in thick fog
7. Service vessels collide at sea in poor weather
8. Man overboard during oil spill exercise
9. Manual error releases oil to the sea for extended period
11. Birds found in offshore are where Avian Flu is
suspected.
12. Dead fish from toxic spill

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Typical Oil Spill Equipment List
Jet Skies Sentinel Boom 400 (10 m) Skimmer System (Disk/Brush Type
Model)
Yamaha 4X4 Rhino YX R660 Shallow Water Boom (Foam Type) Power Pack (Skimmer System)
Agro (Amphibious Vehicle) Air Blower (Boom Inflator) Spate Transfer Pumps, Small Portable
Pump & Diesel Engine
Inflated Boat Water Pump Fast Tank
Portable Wind Direction / Speed
Meter
Boom Towing Assembly Liner Material for 5X4 mtrs (fast
tank)
Work Boat (Landing Craft Type) Boom Anchorage System Suction Hoses (5 meters)
Beach Cleaning Boom /
Shoregaurdian 400 (20m)
Absorbent Booms Discharge Hoses (10 meters)
Sentinel Boom 500 (20 m) Vented Storage Container

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Case Study 1: The 'Nu-Shi Nalini' caught fire in Kerala’s Kochi district enroute from Karachi
to Colombo on June 13, 2018
• M.T. Nu Shi Nalini under the ownership of Arya Ship Charterers Pvt.
Ltd. and managed by Elektrans Shipping Pvt. Ltd
• Chemical tanker NU SHI NALINI, IMO 9619608, dwt 16705, built
2012, flag India
• She was enroute on a voyage from Mundra, India to Colombo, Sri
Lanka and was deviated to OPL Cochin on 13th June 2018 to attend to
repairs.
• At 1130 GMT when the vessel was safely anchored at off Cochin port for
some technical repairs, an explosion was reported in the engine room at
the lower platform while starting a machinery.
• One crew member (Yogesh Kanji Solanki, trainee mechanical engineer)
suffered 80% burns and was medevacked by helicopter at 1600 GMT
• The fixed firefighting system in ER was activated immediately and fire
brought under control at 1400 GMT on 13th June 2018. The doctors
informed the sad demise of the injured crew member. Engineer’s body
was taken to Daman & Diu.
• Salvage agreement was reached with Resolve Salvage and Fire (India)
to provide all necessary assistance to ensure crew safety and protection
of environment and property.
• This cargo is registered for Agriculture commodities.

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Case Study2: BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Aftereffects
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called Gulf of Mexico oil spill,
largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010,
explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf
of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of
Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22. The
incident killed 11 men in an explosion.
It was estimated by a government-commissioned panel of
scientists that 4,900,000 barrels of oil had already leaked into
the gulf. Only about 800,000 barrels had been captured.
The study documents an ultimate cost to BP of $144.89 billion
in the United States, which is more than two times larger than
the $62.59 billion BP reported in its income statement.
BP is nearing the end of the $65bn (£47bn) Deepwater Horizon
compensation process, it said as it announced an unexpectedly
high payout of $1.7bn among the final few hundred
outstanding claims in 2016-17.

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BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Aftereffects
Case Study 2: Greenpeace activists inside boxes
block BP headquarters
20 May 2019
• Climate activists inside five large containers have
blocked the entrances to BP's head office in central
London.
• The aim is to keep BP's headquarters closed "for at
least the whole of this AGM week", Greenpeace said.
BP's annual general meeting.
• Greenpeace said it was carrying out the action to call on
BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in
renewable energy.
• In a statement, BP said: "We welcome discussion,
debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter
of how we must all work together to address the climate
challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an
office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a
matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.“

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SUMMARY
• Safety is not remain as option but compulsion as mandatory Business requirement.
• Prevention is much cheaper that expensive option of post Incident management.
• Emergency Preparedness is key factor while dealing the Incident effectively.