>Press Releases Home > Publications and press releases > Press Releases Oil pollution combating exercise demonstrated An annual oil pollution combating exercise, co-ordinated by the Marine Department with an aim of testing the responses of government departments and oil companies in dealing with oil spills, was carried out at Pearl Island in Tuen Mun today (Thursday). A Marine Department spokesman said:" The exercise, code-named 'Kingfisher 2001', enables members of the response organisations to validate key functions and demonstrate individual and team knowledge, skills and capabilities." "Moreover, the simulation of crisis management and communication system also helps elicit the knowledge of incident command system during major oil spillage incidents," the spokesman said. During the exercise, a 30,000 tonnes dwt mock tanker "Kingfisher 2001" was simulated to have run aground off Pearl Island with some 200 tonnes of marine diesel oil leaking into the sea. About five tonnes of the oil were believed to have stranded at a nearby ungazetted beach. The spokesman explained that the exercise was divided into six parts demonstrating the various techniques and stages in combating oil spills. These included deployment of oil containment booms, deployment of shoreline booming, oil recovery by skimmers, discharging of dispersant by means of spraying arms, shoreline cleaning up, and the recovery of containment, shoreline booms and retrieval of equipment. Apart from the Marine Department, four government departments and six private companies joined today's exercise. They were the Civil Aid Service; Food and Environmental Hygiene Department; Leisure and Cultural Services Department; Highways Department; Caltex (HK) Ltd; Esso (HK) Ltd; Mobil Oil (HK) Ltd; Shell (HK) Ltd; China Resources Co Ltd and Hong Kong Response Ltd. As a prelude to today's exercise, a desktop exercise involving 17 government departments and six private companies was held yesterday (Wednesday). Vigorous testing of the communications capabilities and linkage among the participating units was carried out. Thursday, October 18, 2001
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