방제장비의 합리적 구성 및 체계화 방안 고찰

Abstract

The world marine transportation of crude and product oils is being gradually increased due to the growing demand on energy resources. Particularly in Korea, coastline and marine ecosystem are exposed to the large-scale marine oil spill accidents because a very large oil tanker of 300,000 tonnage must enter Korean ports every day to meet the domestic demand on oils. Thus, national contingency plan for the worst case discharge scenario must be entirely prepared to protect marine environments and coastal resources. However, we believe that we had not developed enough discussions on systematic methodology for estimation of reasonable amount of response resources such as oil skimming devices, booms, and response vessels, etc. In this paper, we try to present a rational composition of response equipments considering Korean marine environments and suggest a reliable method of estimation for them.