SÖKÖSuomenlahti

The Gulf of Finland Oil Spill Response Management Model

Project aims to improve the oil spill response competency and overall preparedness for marine oil spills on the coast of Gulf of Finland.

The project is implemented together with the rescue services along the Gulf of Finland coast.

The project will result in an oil spill response manual for a major marine oil spill

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Main objectives and activities

SÖKÖSuomenlahti project updates the oil spill response management models SÖKÖ I and SÖKÖ II developed in 2007 and 2011. Models will be unified and elaborated in order to measure up to the technological development and the changes in spill response legislation. The oil spill response management model describes how to conduct the oil spill response operation within the field of responsibility of the Regional Fire and Rescue Services.

The SÖKÖ spill response management model is scenario-related, scaled to the worst-case marine oil spills expected. The model consists of guidelines for response tactics, oil containment and recovery, reconnaissance, shoreline protection, onshore clean-up operations, waste management, spill response logistics, communication, human resource and financial management, claims and compensation procedures as well as health and safety issues.

The SÖKÖ response model also includes several spill response management tools, such as operative charts with shoreline segmentation, waste flow charts, reconnaissance forms and other data management applications.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of the project is to

  • improve the oil spill response competency and capacity, develop spill response techniques and tactics and overall preparedness to marine oil spills
  • minimize the impacts of major oil spills by means of up-to-date and jointly developed response guidelines.

ACTIVITIES

  • To compile a spill response manual. The manual comprises over twenty sections, each of which describing either a temporal phase or the specific field of responsibility
  • To carry out field surveys to produce geographic information including data on oil waste logistics and sensitive areas

OUTCOMES

Publications

Article

SÖKÖ Manual on the ABCs of Marine Oil Spill Response

Oil spill response can be a long-term task, affecting a wide geographical area and a large number of operators. To facilitate the coordination of spill…
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Contact

Phone
+358447028514
Email
Justiina.Halonen@xamk.fi
Department
Logistiikka ja merenkulku
Justiina Halonen
Research Manager
+358447028514
Justiina.Halonen@xamk.fi
Phone
+358447028450
Email
Elias.Altarriba@xamk.fi
Department
Logistiikka ja merenkulku
Elias Altarriba
Project Manager
+358447028450
Elias.Altarriba@xamk.fi
Phone
+358447028775
Email
Emmi.Rantavuo@xamk.fi
Department
Logistiikka ja merenkulku
Emmi Rantavuo
Project Manager
+358447028775
Emmi.Rantavuo@xamk.fi
Project name:

SÖKÖSuomenlahti – The Gulf of Finland Oil Spill Response Management Model

Project duration: 1.7.2008–31.10.2021

Info

Lead partner: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Xamk
Other partners: Rescue Services of Kymenlaakso, Eastern-Uusimaa, City of Helsinki and Western Uusimaa, the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment of Southeast Finland and Uusimaa (ELY Centres), The Finnish Border Guard, Finnish Environment Institute, voluntary organizations
Focus area: Logistics and seafaring
Research area: Oil and chemical spill response
Impact goal: Environment and sustainability

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: The Finnish Oil Spill Compensation Fund of the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the partnering Rescue Services
Total budget: € 620 570