A consortium assembled by the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has been granted a significant amount of EU funding for the development of Arctic oil spill response methods and the evaluation of thei......
The oil recovery exercise “Kemi Arctic 2015” that will be held on 25 March off the coast of Kemi will test mechanical oil recovery and remote sensing equipment in Arctic conditions. The exercise will ......
Finnish and Estonian authorities held an oil spill response exercise off the coast of Kotka on Tuesday 27 August. The related exercise scenario involved a grounded oil tanker, with 30,000 tonnes of cr......
Latest events Final Seminar of the WINOIL project was held in St. Petersburg, Russia in 30th September 2014. After the seminar, the project group will have the closing meeting in 1st November, a...
An exercise in oil spill prevention and response involving Estonia and Finland was held in the sea area off Paldiski on 29 May 2013. The Puhas Meri 2013 exercise organised by Estonia covered the testi......
According to the decision of HELCOM Response 13/2010 Finland was the lead country to organize and conduct the annual joint Baltic operational marine pollution response exercise BALEX DELTA in year 20...
Project Description The aim of the Baltic Oil Spill Safety System Project was to help Russian authorities in improving the environmental monitoring of oil spills and in developing a Baltic globa...