TOWARD EFFECTIVE OIL SPILL RESPONSE IN THE BULGARIAN SEA

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THE TWINNING LIGHT PROJECT BG2006/018-164.04.01.1
22OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA

• TOWARD EFFECTIVE OIL SPILL RESPONSE IN THE
  BULGARIAN SEA
• SPACES AND IN BLACK SEA REGION AS A WHOLE
• SPEAKER
• capt. Zhivko Petrov - Director of Directorate
  Maritime Administration Burgas and BC Project
  Leader

May, the 29-th, 2009, MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
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PORTS IN THE AREA UNDER JURISDICTION OF BMA,
DIRECTORATE-BOURGAS CURRENT VIEW

• PORTS WITH NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
• Port of Bourgas serves its duties by 3 sub-ports,
  one dedicated storage base and one seasonal
  passenger terminal in the port of Nessebar The
  Port operates 28 vessels berths, having totally
  4,800 ms of quays and maximum allowable draught
  of 15.50 ms.
• Oil terminal Rosenetz.
• PORTS WITH REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
• Fish Port Bourgas is used to handle general
  and liquid cargo with 3 berthing place.
• Port Bulgarian shipyard south quay L is used
  to handle general cargo and scrap, with 2
  berthing place
• Dockyard Port Bourgas is used to handle general
  and liquid cargo, with 2 berthing place
• Port Transstroy Bourgas is used to handle
  general cargo, liquid alimentary cargo and mail,
  with 2 berthing place.

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PORT OF BOURGAS CURRENT VIEW

• Port of Bourgas includes following terminals
• Terminal East with 14 mooring place for
  general cargoes of all kinds, metals, wood,
  paper, foodstuff are handled in
• Bulk Cargoes Terminal with 3 mooring place,
  intended for handling and storing of bulk
  commodities-coal, coke, ores and concentrates,
  etc.
• The new Terminal 2A has been built under the
  famous Port of Bourgas Expansion Project,
  intended for handling of bulk cargoes
  mainly-coal, coke, ores and concentrates,
  clinker, etc., with 4 mooring place
• Terminal West handles generally metals of all
  kind, RO-RO and container traffic, with modern
  cold storage facilities and 6 mooring place.

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OIL TERMINAL ROSENETZ

• Situated on the S part of Bourgas bay
• With 3 berthing place
• Two of them are used mainly for handling of
  refined oil products and chemicals and the
  berthing place No.2 is used for handling of crude
  oil (rebco) as well as for refined oil products.
• Cargo turnover of crude oil is approximately 10
  mln. t/year.

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF PORT OF BOURGAS AND
BOURGAS BAY AS A WHOLE

• New project for building of multimodal terminal
  Super Bourgas
• Building of Bourgas Aleksandrupolis pipeline.

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BOURGAS ALEXANDROPOULOS PIPELINE

• The 279 km Bourgas (Bulgaria)-Alexandroupolis
  (Mediterranean coast of Greece) pipeline is
  expected to be constructed in the near future
• The agreement was signed in 2007
• The initial capacity of pipeline will be 35 mln.
  t/year of crude oil and will increased up to 50
  mln. t /year
• This pipeline is allow bypassing Bosporus Straits
  which is over-congested and imposes tanker size
  limitations.
• This new pipeline will increase the risk of oil
  pollution in Bourgas bay and vulnerable south
  part of Bulgarian Black sea coast as a whole.

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REASON OF VULNERABILITY

• Protected areas and habitats in the area of
  jurisdiction of BMA, Directorate-Bourgas falling
  under scope of NATURA 2000
• 11 of all Bulgarian Protected zones under
  Habitats and Birds Directives are fallen in the
  area of jurisdiction of BMA, Directorate-Bourgas
• The sea waters and coastal lakes are
  approximately 23 of total protected areas
• Approximately 16 beaches are situated alongside
  the south part of the Bulgarian Black sea coast

Legend
Potential NATURA 2000 Protected zones/ BirdsDirective/20,3 of Bulgarian territory
Potential NATURA 2000 Protected zones/ Habitats Directive/20,3 of Bulgarian territory
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CURRENT SITUATION IN CASE OF LARGE OIL SPILL IN
BULGARIAN SEA SPACESSatellite images

• From December 2007 Bulgaria receives satellite
  images through the CleanSeaNet service
• BMAs SAR vessels are used for confirmation of
  suspected pollutions
• Due to the lack of the confirmation procedures
  and technical capabilities the identification
  rate is very low

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CURRENT SITUATION IN CASE OF LARGE OIL SPILL IN
BULGARIAN SEA SPACESAerial Surveillance

• The aerial surveillance can be used to fulfil the
  EMSAs service and is the most effective way for
  detecting and deterring illegal discharges from
  sea-based source
• Ship masters have obligations to inform observed
  oil slick to VTS or MRCC.
• Aerial tools are mentioned as a part of the oil
  spill surveillance actions in the large scale
  recovery and combating operations
• At this moment there are no aerial surveillance
  actions, agreement or designated responsible
  bodies in Bulgaria to carry out this task

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CURRENT SITUATION IN CASE OF LARGE OIL SPILL IN
BULGARIAN SEA SPACES

• no equipment for large oil spills
• (gt 1000 tones)
• no equipment for the open sea
• no facilities for dealing with large volumes of
  recovered oil
• lack of adequate equipment for shore clean-up and
  restoration.
• LIMITED CAPABILITIES FOR LARGE OIL SPILL RESPONSE

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LOOK IN THE FUTUREOPTION FOR BETTER RESPONSE
TO LARGE OIL SPILLS IN THE BULGARIAN BLACK SEA
SPACES AS WELL AS TO ASSIST THE NEIGHBORING
COUNTRY IN COMBATING WITH OIL SPILLS

• TO CREATE A MODERN CENTRE FOR COMBATING WITH
  LARGE OIL SPILLS SITUATED IN PORT OF BURGAS
  FOLLOWING THE EMSA MODEL OF AT-SEA OIL RECOVERY
  VESSEL
• BG Government to contract oil recovery vessel
  which will be the commercial vessel that can be
  adapted for at-sea oil pollution response
  activities equipped with
• Sweeping Arms
• Weir/Brush Skimmer
• Oil Booms
• Oil Detection Radar System.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION !