The Interspill 2025 Conference will deliver keynote plenary sessions, complemented by three streams, running concurrently throughout all three event open days.
You can view a working programme for the three Conference streams, below.
Conference delegates will have access to all streams (as well as the keynote plenary sessions, the Exhibition, Supporting Programme and all networking platforms) on the days for which they are booked to attend.
Don't forget! In addition to the below Conference streams, Interspill 2025 offers delegates so much more via the Exhibition and a Supporting Programme of on-site learning and networking experiences. To learn more about the Exhibition, click here. To learn more about the Supporting Programme of activity, click here.
Please note, the below is a working programme of the three Conference streams:
Plenary sessions, session summaries and speaker details will be added in time. The below programme will be changed (due to speaker availability) and updated regularly as final details are confirmed. The Conference programme below is accurate at the date of publication. If you have any queries please contact Intrespill's Executive Director Mark Orr at info@interspill.org.
SESSION CHAIR:
Dr Polly Hill, IPIECA
Details coming soon...
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Smoke reduction for In-situ burning
J. Brian A. Mitchell, SAS MERL-CONSULTING
Chevron’s successful deployment of a capping stack in the Gulf of Mexico
Dr Maria Hartley, Chevron
Different dispersal mechanisms of subsea dispersant injection in deepwater and shallow water blowouts
Jorgen Skancke, Sintef
Mechanical recovery for environmental protection
Kåre-Ludwig Jørgensen, NOFO
Effects of oil spill response agents on shallow-water corals: implications for spill response in tropical marine coastal systems
Dr Abigail Renegar, NOVA SouthEastern University
SESSION CHAIR:
Chiara Della Mea, IMO
Strengthening regional collaboration in marine spill preparedness and response: evolution and outlook for Southeast Asia
Nai Ming Lee, IPIECA: GI SEA
Gearing technical cooperation to the needs of the region: how the support of the GI WACAF project has evolved to enhance oil spill preparedness
Anaïs Guillou, IPIECA: GI WACAF
Towards a continuous improvement process for maintaining advanced levels of preparedness to oil spill response and harmonizing approaches for HNS Incidents
Malek Smaoui, REMPEC
SESSION CHAIR:
Elliott Taylor, Polaris Applied
Underwater seabed assessment cleanup technique (uSCAT) manual
Lee Britton, National Environmental Emergencies Centre, Canada
Long term fate and behaviour of oil in an Arctic shoreline
Sigrid Hakvåg, Sintef
A new tool for the evaluation of shoreline treatment options in remote areas
Ed Owens, Owens Coastal Consultants Ltd
The remobilization and redistribution of hydrocarbons as a result of shoreline flushing for a used lubricant oil spill on a mixed sediment beach
Nicolas Pelletier, Environment and Climate Change Canada
SESSION CHAIR:
Rhea Shears, OSRL
Recruiting and retaining the next generation of responders
Jessica Miller, AMOSC
New approaches in achieving lasting competence across a global incident management team
Aaron Montgomery, OSRL
Proactive and technology-based knowledge retention and transfer rfforts at the American Petroleum Institute
Timothy Steffek, API
Developing an Industry Subject Matter Expert (SME) programme for enhanced oil Spill response: concepts and industry examples from BP
Rhea Shears, OSRL
SESSION CHAIR:
Christophe Logete, Cedre
Mechanical Recovery of low sulphur fuel oils - results from the IMAROS 2 trials
Silje Berger, Norwegian Coastal Administration
Alternative marine fuels are coming – are we ready?
Patricia Charlebois, IMO
How the transition to alternative fuels may alter the types of damage and liabilities that will arise from incidents involving vessels using alternative fuels as bunkers
Daisy Roche, IGP&I
New fuels, new risks: contingency planning in the context of alternative fuel spill response
Andrew Le Masurier, ITOPF
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Oil pollution or HNS incidents – who pays?
TBC, IOPC Funds
Volatile HNS risk assessment
Dr Laura Cotte, CEDRE
Ship to ship transfer operations in Australia: new techniques developed to support industry operations
Nathan Young, AMOSC
SESSION CHAIR:
Lucy Short, OSRL
CNOOC Exercise Mù Lóng
Andy Coueslant, CNOOC & Dougal Fraser, OSRL
Enhancing response efficiency in coastal oil spills: transition from geographic response plans to tactical response plans
Julia Nagae, OceanPact
Evaluation and comparison of national contingency plans in South America and the Caribbean region using RETOS
Rodrigo Cochrane Esteves, Petrobras
Supporting contingency planning in Pacific Island nations
LT Aidan Leddy-Phillips, USCG Regional Activity Center Supervisor
Offshore wind oil spill response planning
Gabrielle McGrath, RPS / Tetra Tech
SESSION CHAIR:
Mark Kirby, Cefas
Seperate registration required - click here
Keynote: Post-Spill Monitoring in the wider Scientific Landscape – Cefas/Defra Chief Scientist
This session addresses the significance and relevance of emerging issues and how it relates to environmental impact assessment practices.
Presentation topics to include:
Monitoring in multi-stressor environments – differentiating spill impacts in already impacted areas
Plastics – what approaches are relevant for investigating impacts of plastics spills
Climate change/biodiversity/food security – spill impacts in the context of broad global threats
Chemical & oil transport trends – how do different cargo trends affect out monitoring preparedness considerations
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Unrest and security concerns in the Red Sea - the UN response to the MV Rubymar
Patricia Charlebois, IMO
The Red Sea crisis: how conflict continues to impact shipping risk
Nicole McShane, Ambipar Response
SESSION CHAIR:
Paul Kelway, OSRL
Wildlife emergency response in Europe: where to next?
Saskia Sessions-Puplett, Sea Alarm/EUROWA
A collaborative approach to bridging the wildlife response preparedness gap: how OSRL and its wildlife response partners are working together to support and promote wildlife response preparedness within the oil industry
Lucy Short, OSRL
Legislation in different countries worldwide: the importance of wildlife protection and response strategies within contingency plans
Brígida Campos Gandini, Aiuka
Enhancing wildlife preparedness and response: the critical role of exercises, an example from Brazil
Valeria Ruoppolo, Aiuka
Building a solid foundation: understanding oiled wildlife response for better planning
Louise Chilvers, Wildbase
SESSION CHAIR:
Mark Kirby, Cefas
Seperate registration required - click here
Keynote: Embracing & Adopting Technology
This session considers the place for new technologies in the toolbox for assessment of spill impacts as part of a monitoring programme.
Presentation topics to include:
New Tools for New Fuels – using the latest analytical technology to track the emerging generation of fuels
Remote sensing – how can remote sensing technologies contribute to an effective impact assessment
eDNA/Genomics – consideration of the latest molecular biology techniques and their place in emergency response monitoring
AI & Systems Thinking – considering the new ways of using data to facilitate post-spill monitoring
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
How to find a rogue vessel that caused an oil spill in the Caribbean
Marc Rudder, Ministry Of Energy and Energy Industries, Trinidad and Tobago
Gulfstream, Trinidad & Tobago – getting to the root of a complex incident
Mark Homan, IOPC Funds
Dark waters: the risks of uninsured vessels to coastal states and the international conventions – a Tobago case study
Dr Annabelle Nicolas-Kopec, ITOPF
Analysing the Gulfstream oil spill response in Tobago: lessons Learned and future directions
Josh Clifford, QT Environmental
SESSION CHAIR
Victoria Turner, IOPC Funds
Sustaining ESD in Malaysian primary schools: industrial stakeholder engagement framework
Rosnah Mohamed Ismail, VJ Engineering Solutions Singapore and Malaysia
The viability of crowdsourcing for oil spill response
Ashley Sandquist, Washington State Department of Ecology
Inclusion of indigenous peoples in emergency decision-making: a case study of North American native tribal leadership in oil spill response
Heather A. Parker, Navy Region Northwest
The engagement of indigenous sea rangers in supporting oil spill response in remote Australia
Dr Stuart Field, AMOSC
SESSION CHAIR:
Mark Kirby, Cefas
Seperate registration required - click here
Keynote: The global ecosystem – threatened by spills?
This session considers the broader, global environment and the importance of developing sound scientific monitoring approaches to all vulnerable marine environments. The next edition of the Premiam Post Spill Monitoring Guidelines (due in 2025) will include principles for monitoring in a wider set of global environments.
Presentation topics to include:
UK Protected Areas – considering the importance of environments closer to home
Tropical Environments – Corals & Mangroves, what are the principles for post-spill monitoring in these environments
Polar Environments – Are there different considerations to be taken for polar environments?
The Premiam Guidelines – How are they adapting to be more relevant to emerging threats and globally relevant environments?
SESSION CHAIR:
Travis Hansen, ExxonMobil
Effective health and safety practices in response
Dr Maria Hartley, Chevron
How do we know our teams are #ReadyToRespond under pressure? Pushing the boundaries of large scale exercise programmes
Dave Rouse, OSRL
If you’re not using AI in your exercises, what are you doing?!
Ines Costa, OSRL
The use of technology in incident management
Robert Owen, IOPC Funds
SESSION CHAIR:
Mark Orr, UK & Ireland Spill Association
Response goals for marine plastic pellet spills
David Campion, ITOPF
Analysis of persistent organic pollutants in plastic pellets recovered from UK Shorelines: Implications for health risks, ecotoxicology and spill response operations
Dr Jon Burton, Oracle Environmental Experts
Aquatic litter monitoring in Europe: approach and results
Dr Silvère André, Cedre
The scientific response to support the environmental emergency caused by the plastic pellets from the Tocanao ship spill
Ana J. Abascal Santillana, Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Details coming soon...
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Navigating complexity: challenges and learnings in oil spill response operations in support of the FSO Safer Salvage Operation Project
Leanne Zrum, Triox
Tropics 40th year Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (NEBA) site assessment
Paul Schuler, Clean Caribbean & Americas
Vegetation recovery after a hurricane and crude oil spill response in a Bahamian Caribbean pine forest
Andrew Graham, Polaris Applied Sciences
Cedre's technical assistance to the ports and local authorities of Haute-Corse
Loeiz Dagorn, Cedre
SESSION CHAIR:
Mark Kirby, Cefas
Providing international assistance
Anne Le Roux, Cedre
Smoother collaboration with partnerships developed with trade associations
Mark Orr, UK and Ireland Spill Association
Strategies for effective communication and stakeholder engagement in oil spills
Janni Järvinen, Navigate Response Ltd
Cost of oil spills – an international regime perspective
Jamie Stovin-Bradford, ITOPF
SESSION CHAIR:
Stéphane Grenon, Triox
Applying an ESG perspective to the MARCO POLO Incident
Dr Amy Jewell, ITOPF
Cultural awareness: Ignore cultural diversity at your peril
Liliana Monsalve, IOPC Funds
Peacetime proactivity: how do we know if we’re really making a difference?
Bethany Graves, JNCC
Development of an integrated risk assessment framework for future oil contaminated land management: a complementary approach to sustainability
Abiola Soipe, Cranfield University
SESSION CHAIR:
Lauren Bierman, Plymouth University
Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) service – an overview
Enrico Gironella, EMSA
Modelling and testing of effectiveness on Subsea Dispersant Injection (SSDI) and Subsea Mechanical Dispersion (SSMD) - an International Cooperation between Brazil and Norway
Per Johan Brandvik, Sintef
Modelling environmental consequences of ammonia spills from tankers
Dr Deborah French McKay, RPS/Tetratech
Use of the NOAA-EPA CAMEO software suite to aid in decision support for HNS spills
Dalina Thrift-Viveros, NOAA
SESSION CHAIR:
To be confirmed
Nuclear ships: history, risks and Implications for the spill community
Dr Conor Bolas, ITOPF
Public health risks from lithium-ion batteries in the maritime Industry
Arran McKinty, UK Health Security Agency
Ammonia as a marine fuel: a review of current response tactics
Max Upot, Ambipar Response
Risk assessment of methanol-fuelled shipping industry
William Giraud, Cedre