Brasília (08/28/2013) - The president of IBAMA, Volney Zanardi Junior signed to Instruction No. 16, published today (28/8) in the Official Gazette, regulate technical and administrative procedures for the issuance of the environmental permit for operations ship to ship in Brazilian waters. The standard establishes, among others, criteria for prevention and emergency response, and the restriction of areas for the implementation of operations.
Ship to ship is the term adopted to transfer operations of oil and its derivatives a relief vessel to vessel carriers. Offshore production is drained from the platforms to the mainland via pipelines or tankers. These vessels receive the oil platforms are called "relievers." The transfer of crude oil and by ship to ship operation is an alternative to avoid long displacements of tankers, cheapening the cost when the interest is the chemicals and without the need to use Brazilian ports or terminals. Before the standard transshipment of oil in Brazil could only occur in ports.
The interested in environmental authorization for conducting ship to ship operation, shall submit to IBAMA's ability to meet the techniques and procedures for pollution prevention in accordance with national and international standards that address the topic, including contingency procedures if they fail the security devices.
The environmental permit will not be issued for conducting ship to ship operations near sensitive areas such as, for example, the Abrolhos reef complex, Foz do Amazonas Basin and Pelotas.
Janet Harbour
Ascom / IBAMA
Photo: Petrobras source
Source: www.ibama.gov.br
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