ITOPF activities across Interspill 2025

ITOPF has been heavily involved in Interspill 2025, a keystone conference for the pollution response industry which took place at ExCel London between 8 and 10 April.

The company sits on the organising committee for the event, and worked alongside industry stakeholders to put together a packed technical programme covering the pertinent topics for the pollution response community.

ITOPF’s involvement across the week covered:

Monday 7th April

• Optimising spill response: Transitioning from emergencies to projects
  • Interspill Academy short course with OSRL - Miguel Ciriero, Natálie Kirk, Amy Jewell

Tuesday 8th April

• Current and future challenges
  • Richard Johnson, Technical Director - Opening Plenary session

• New fuels, new risks: Contingency planning in the context of alternative fuel spill response
  • Andrew Le Masurier, Senior Technical Adviser - Stream 3 Alternative fuels #1: Setting the scene

Wednesday 9th April

• Session chair
  • Andrew Le Masurier, Senior Technical Adviser - Stream 1 Shipping risks

• Monitoring in multi-stressor environments
  • Dr Sue Ware, Technical Adviser Premiam conference: Emerging threats & challenges

• Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) lunch event
  • ITOPF joined partners from OSRL, IOPC Funds, Ipieca and IMO for a lunchtime session to discuss experiences and assist with the creation of industry best practice in DEI in oil spill response. Vanessa Holliday, People & Culture Manager, will be presenting a poster on ITOPF’s experiences of DEI implementation across the organisation.

• Session chair
  • Oli Beavon, Company Secretary and Director of Governance - Stream 1 Sanctions, insurance and claims

• Dark waters: The risks of uninsured vessels tocoastal states and the international conventions –a Tobago case study
  • Dr Annabelle Nicolas-Kopec, Senior Technical Adviser - Stream 1 Case histories: Trinidad & Tobago: Gulfstream

• Session chair
  • Richard Johnson, Technical Director - Stream 3 Premiam conference: New environments and geographies

Thursday 10th April

• Nuclear ships: History, risks and implications for the spill community
  • Dr Conor Bolas, Technical Adviser /Natálie Kirk, Technical Adviser - Stream 1 Emerging fuels

• Response goals for marine plastic pellet spills
  • David Campion, Senior Technical Adviser / Head of Singapore office, Stream 3 Plastics and marine litter

• Cost of oil spills – an international regime perspective
  • Tim Wadsworth, Technical Support Manager - Stream 3 Outreach and comms #2

• Applying an ESG perspective to the MARCO POLO incident
  • Dr Amy Jewell, Technical Adviser - Stream 1 Environmental, social and governance

• South Africa 2024: Cape shipping incidents affected by Red Sea activities?
  • Dr Sue Ware, Technical AdviserStream 3 Case histories

• MARINE HONOUR, Singapore, June 2024: Collision and pollution in a major maritime hub
  • David Campion, Senior Technical Adviser /Head of Singapore office - Stream 3 Case histories

• Interspill’s Emerging Leaders ‘Class of 2025’ pose questions to a panel of industry leaders –
  • Richard Johnson, Technical Director, alongside senior representatives from IMO, IOGP, Ipieca & OSRL  

• ITOPF & Cedre Science & Innovation Workshops
  • A series of presentations in the Exhibition Hall on low-sulfur fuel oils (LSFO), plastics, alternative fuels and volatile hazardous & noxious substances (HNS)

• Posters
  • Tanker oil spills in ports and inland waters - Naa Sackeyfio, Senior Data & GIS Specialist
  • Collaborative GIS: How prepared are we? - Naa Sackeyfio, Senior Data & GIS Specialist /Lisa Woolgar, Information & Communications Manager