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A Study on the Improvement of National Marine Pollution Response Policy based on the Analysis of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident

미국 멕시코만 오염사고 분석을 통한 국가방제정책 개선방안 연구

  • Received : 2011.05.19
  • Accepted : 2011.09.22
  • Published : 2011.09.30

Abstract

On April 20, 2010, semi-submersible offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon was exploded and sank, and 4.9 million barrels(about 778 thousand tons) of crude oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. As more than one year has been passed since the incident, a lot of investigation reports and lessons learned have been made public and also a lot more will be released soon. This paper studies the final report of the National Commission on "the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling", which was organized by the executive directive of U.S. President Barack Obama, and the interim report of Joint Investigation team of U.S. Coast Guard and BOEMRE of "Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Explosion, Fire, Sinking and Loss of Eleven Members Aboard the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon". The review is focused on the response to the oil spill. And the paper suggests how to improve national marine pollution response policy. In the paper, the Korean governments is suggested to reinforce the capability for instructing and supervising the responsible party's source control measures, to review how to introduce in-situ burning and vessel of opportunity program into our country, and to continue monitoring on the progress of developments of R&D projects related to oil spill response in the U.S..

2010년 4월 20일, 반잠수식 시추선 Deepwater Horizon호가 폭발, 침몰하는 사고가 발생하였으며, 이로 인해 490만배럴(약 77.8만톤)의 원유가 미국 멕시코만으로 유출되었다. 이 사고로부터 1년 이상이 경과함에 따라 정부 측과 오염행위자 측의 각종 분석보고서와 사고로부터 얻은 교훈 등이 발표되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 미국 버락 오바마 대통령의 지시로 구성된 "Deepwater Horizon 기름유출과 원해 석유시추에 관한 국가위원회"의 최종보고서와 미국 해안경비대(USCG)와 미국 에너지 관리 규제 집행국(BOEMRE) 합동조사반의 중간보고서를 바탕으로 기름오염 사고 원인과 사고대응에 대한 측면을 중점적으로 검토 분석하였다. 또한, 분석결과를 토대로 우리나라 정부에서 유출구 봉쇄조치 지도감독 능력 강화, 현장소각과 임시방제정 프로그램의 도입검토 및 향후 미국의 연구개발성과에 대한 지속적인 모니터링 등 국가방제정책의 개선방안을 제시하였다.

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