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| Regional Oil Spill Mitigation Course hosted on The Palm, Jumeirah Nakheel, the premier property developer in the Middle East, hosted a major regional training course held and organized by RECSO (Regional Clean Sea Organization) for the GCC in Oil Spill response. The two-day course, organized in association with SESME (Seacor Environmental Services Middle East), took place on Nakheel’s signature development, The Palm, Jumeirah. Representatives from major Oil, Port and Development organizations from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and, the UAE attended the course which involved a number of crisis management scenarios and exercises, and educating participants in what to do in the event of an oil spill reaching the shoreline of their respective countries. One such exercise involved the quick installation of one meter of high inflatable protection booms that keep the oil out of reach of the sensitive areas until state of the art vacuum systems or ‘skimmers’ ( devices that pick up oil from the water’s surface) are used to recover the oil. The Regional Clean Seas Organization is an oil industry cooperative functioning on the concept of ‘mutual aid’. Established in 1972 by the region’s oil companies, RECSO’s mission is to protect the marine environment in the Arabian Gulf from oil pollution emanating from operations of RECSO members’ activities. Each member company shares the responsibility of ensuring a long-term commitment to the ‘Clean Gulf’ concept. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |