Amy Stephenson joined ITOPF in January 2025, after supporting the company in a temporary basis for 12 months. Amy has a Bachelor of Business (majoring in Human Resources) and has previously worked in
The 3rd vessel in Sovcomflot’s (SCF) series of the world’s first LNG powered Aframax tankers was named at a ceremony held in Mokpo, S. Korea on 20th November
This paper examines the trends in costs associated with the various low technology shoreline clean-up methods that were used in the response to the SEA EMPRESS incident, by drawing on information
ExpOS'D, 2018 R&D Award Winner A one-year study to investigate the fate and behaviour of an oil slick subject to different dispersion mechanisms. The winner of the 7th ITOPF R&D Award is
We are pleased to announce that the beneficiary of the 7th annual ITOPF R&D Award is ExpOS’D (Experimental Oil Spill Data-sharing), a research project led by the NHL Stenden University of Applied
ITOPF is delighted to announce that the final report of the 2022 ITOPF R&D Award winning project: Photomodification Of Low sulfur fuel oils: Investigations of Toxic Effects (POLITE), produced by
ITOPF's tanker spill statistics released today showed a slight increase in the number of large spills from tankers in 2013 compared to the previous two years but the downward trend is maintained.
This paper provides a global overview of the spatial distribution of accidental marine oil tanker spills of size 7 tonnes and over, based on ITOPF’s spills database, and explores spatio-temporal
The 1971 and 1992 International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds ("IOPC Funds") provide compensation to the victims of oil spills from tankers in countries which have ratified the 1971 and 1992 Fund
