The maritime sector plays a critical role in Nigeria's oil industry, serving as the primary conduit for offshore oil exploration, production, and transportation. As the country remains heavily reliant on its oil revenues, ensuring that maritime operations comply with legal and regulatory standards is crucial for operational safety, environmental su...
Introduction Innovative and functional AI Drones (Artificial Intelligence Unmanned Aircraft) systems, commonly known as 'drones', have revolutionized fields such as civil protection, maritime and land surveillance, natural disaster management and threat monitoring in public spaces. More than ever, drones are coming into our daily lives to improve p...
Brazil faces several challenges related to maritime monitoring, including illegal fishing, drug trafficking, oil spills, and other environmental hazards. The approach aims to automate the detection and analysis of maritime activity, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making for improved maritime security. The computer vision algorithms used...
India's geographical centrality in the Indian Ocean and its peninsular structure with a long coastline and island territories has given it enormous opportunities. Maritime security challenges include traditional and non-traditional threats, such as oil or chemical spills, which can severely damage the marine habitat and coastal ecosystem. Oil is es...
Offshore oil spills that repeatedly occur in Indonesia require government responsibility and supervision. National-scale offshore oil spill response is carried out by PUSKODALNAS (National Center for Command and Control of Operations for Mitigating Oil Spill Emergency at Sea). However, there is still a lack of PUSKODALNAS in the realization of its...
The increasing demand for and investment in energy production from offshore oil and gas sources in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, has increased the risk of offshore oil spills. This study aimed to describe offshore oil spill response to achieve maritime security in Indonesia. This research is qualitative with findings without going...
The sea lies at the heart of the EU prosperity and security: the Union and its member states depend on open and secure seas and oceans for their trade, transportation, energy, food, mineral resources, tourism, and a healthy marine environment. Maritime surveillance constitutes a key enabler for safeguarding the EU strategic interests at sea, by pro...
We describe a mathematical model for UAV aided security operations in the oil and gas industry. Operating UAVs can provide seamless awareness on possible emergency situations such as oil spills, shipping incidents, industrial accidents, acts of terrorism, and so on. The primary goal of this model is to generate an optimal UAV operational schedule t...
Routine operations at sea such as environmental monitoring and security patrols involve substantial long-term costs in terms of equipment and labor. Moreover, operating in hazardous conditions or during severe weather increases the probability of mission failure and in some cases endangers human lives. Recent advances in unmanned surface vehicle (U...
In 2014, the U.S. National Response Center recorded over 30,000 incidents of oil spills, chemical releases, or maritime security issues, including crude (4-methylcyclohexyl)methanol (MCHM) that contaminated river and drinking water in West Virginia. This research determined physicochemical partitioning data for the two major compounds released in W...
Executive summary
The MIMIC project (Minimizing risks of maritime oil transport by holistic safety strategies)
developed proactive management approaches to risks related to maritime oil
transportation, focusing on the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea. In this sea area, the volume
of oil transportation has nearly quadrupled during the past ten yea...
In order to decrease accidental and operationnal oil spills from vessels, the international community has created a system of risk prevention for oil pollution. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the effectiveness of this process in the English channel and the bay of Biscay between 1960 and 2004. In the first part, we present methods and data us...
The Baltic Sea is subject to various European environmental regulations which aim at securing its long-term protection. This will be achieved by the accompanying monitoring programmes associated with, for example, the HELCOM convention, the EC Water Framework Directive, the Natura 2000 Directives and the upcoming European Maritime Policy, to name t...
