News and insights

• 3 February 2025

Assisting countries to develop national structures and capability for oil spill preparedness and response.

• 30 January 2025

Ipieca hosted a marine spill tabletop exercise involving ammonia, LNG and very low sulphur fuel oil, bringing together members, first responders and regulators.

• 16 December 2024

Taking place in Togo, the conference brought together 120 participants, including key government and industry representatives from 20 African countries to share good practice and provide technical support to enhance oil spill preparedness and response.

• 24 October 2024

The first fact sheets in the latest Ipieca series on alternative fuels and products spill response have been published.

• 26 September 2024

26 September is World Maritime Day 2024. This year’s theme ‘Navigating the future: safety first’ reflects the IMO's work to enhance maritime safety and security, in tandem with the protection of the marine environment. The theme also provides the opportunity to focus on the safety implications arising from the introduction of alternative fuels including measures to reduce GHG emissions from ships.

• 18 July 2024

Assisting countries to develop national structures and capability for oil spill preparedness and response

• 11 April 2024

Ipieca support for IMO working groups on GHG LCA and pollution response.

• 15 February 2024

A one-stop-shop for accurate, up-to-date dispersants related guidance and information.

• 22 November 2023

A summary of activities across the GIs with updates from OSPRI, GI WACAF and GI SEA.

• 28 September 2023

This year's theme, 'MARPOL at 50 - our commitment goes on', reflects the organization's history of protecting the environment from the impact of shipping. Ipieca works to support MARPOL through a range of expertise around technologies, GHG emissions reduction, marine spill preparedness and response, health and safety.

• 10 August 2023

Ipieca and IOGP have updated the 'Incident Management System for the oil and gas industry', 'Oil spill exercises' and 'Responder health and safety' guidance documents.

• 8 June 2023

This UN World Oceans Day, find out how Ipieca works to ensure the ocean’s health and well-being.

• 25 November 2022

The conference brought together 120 participants, including key government and industry representatives from the 21 African partner countries to discuss global oil spill preparedness and response capabilities.

• 20 October 2022

For incident management and emergency response personnel.

• 29 September 2022

This year's theme 'New technologies for greener shipping' reflects the need to support a transition of the maritime sector into a sustainable future.

• 24 May 2022

Meet Ipieca representatives on our stand or hear from them during the various conference sessions.

• 11 February 2022

Ipieca and IOGP have launched a quick reference infographic and video for local responders to use when deciding whether to spray surface dispersant on oil spills.

• 20 November 2020

This technical support document helps operators navigate the steps and good practices involved in planning for, and implementing, a monitoring and sampling programme.

• 17 September 2020

The 2019 update of the guidance document is now available in French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish language versions.

• 15 July 2020

The guidance describes how to manage all the required onshore activities when dealing with an oil spill.

• 8 June 2020

Ipieca joins the UN in celebrating the role of our oceans in Earth's biosphere and the critical resources it provides for livelihoods and communities around the world.

• 3 June 2020

This World Environment Day, Ipieca joins the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in recognizing that it is 'Time for Nature'.

• 27 May 2020

Ipieca and its member companies are committed to protecting their people, supporting the communities where they operate and continuing to provide the essential energy the world needs during this unprecedented time.

• 12 August 2019

Ipieca has released an updated guidance on oil spill preparedness and response. This document supersedes the 2015 publication under the same title.

• 24 July 2019

The Sustainable Ocean Summit will take place in Paris 20-22 November, with the theme 'Investing in Ocean Futures: Finance and Innovation for the Blue Economy'.

• 31 May 2019

Ipieca had a strong presence at this year's Spillcon, the international oil spill conference for the Asia-Pacific region.

• 17 May 2019

Ipieca hosted a reception for meeting delegates to celebrate the achievements of the GI programme since it began over twenty years ago.

• 29 January 2019

The International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) is seeking thematically related papers and posters for its next conference in May 2020.

• 18 May 2018

Spillcon, the international oil spill conference for the Asia-Pacific region, will take place from 20-24 May in Perth, Australia.

• 16 March 2018

As a founding member, Ipieca is a strong supporter of Interspill and maintains a leading profile and presence at the event.

• 6 March 2018

Ipieca's Executive Director Brian Sullivan joined other guests to welcome Her Majesty the Queen as she commemorated the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the IMO.

• 5 January 2018

Ipieca, API and IOGP have released a new publication -Guidelines on implementing spill impact mitigation assessment (SIMA)- produced in support of the Ipieca-IOGP guidance on net environmental benefit analysis (NEBA). A key objective for any oil spill response is to minimize the impacts to ecological, socio-economic and cultural resources at risk through the development of a safe and effective response strategy.