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Pilbara Ports Authority Managing the Risk and Responding to Maritime

Environmental Emergencies

Outline

• PPA Organisational Profile

• Risk Based approach to preparedness

• Site arrangements

– Port of Port Hedland

– Port of Dampier

– Port of Ashburton

• Training and Exercises

• Questions

PPA’s Organisational Profile

• A Western Australian Government Trading Enterprise operating under the Port Authorities Act of 1999

• Established on 01 July 2014 with the amalgamation of Dampier Port Authority and Port Hedland Port Authority

• Currently encompasses;

– Port of Ashburton

– Port of Dampier

– Port of Port Hedland

PPA’s Organisational Profile

• Two of the worlds largest bulk export ports

• Responsible for 75% of the States and 45% of

the worlds seaborne iron ore exports

• Record annual throughput of 620 million

tonnes, with 24,980 vessel movements

• State Royalties totalled approximately $4.3

billion and PPA paid dividends of $164.45

million to the State

Risk Based Approach

• The risk at each site is

assessed

• Controls appropriate to

the site specific risk are

implemented

• Training and

preparedness is

maintained across the

organisation

Port of Port Hedland

• Largest Bulk Export Port in the world – 446.9 million tonnes through put FY 14/15 with 5867 piloted movements

• Approximately 27% of global seabourne iron ore trade originates from port Hedland

• 22nm (45km) channel, with a least width of 162m

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Port of Port Hedland

• 19 Operational Berths

• 7.6 metre tidal range

• Inner Harbour fringed by mangrove habitat

• Flatback Turtle nesting site adjacent to the shipping channel

• Significant potential impact on economic resources

Marine Pollution Contingency Plan

• Prepared in accordance with AMSA’s Technical Guidelines for preparing Contingency Plans for Marine and Coastal Facilities and ITOPFTechnical Paper 16 Contingency Planning for Marine Oil Spills

• Risk Assessment

• Fate of the primary risks

• Protection Priorities

• First Strike Response Plan

Prepositioned Equipment

Responder 2

• Prepositioned in South

West Creek

• 125 tonnes of waste oil

storage capacity

• 700m of fence boom

• Active weir skimmer

• Support equipment

Responder 3

• Prepositioned in South

East Creek

• 250 tonnes of waste oil

storage capacity

• 1500 m of fence boom

• Active weir skimmer

• 2 x 10 tonne towable

storage bladders

• Support equipment

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Responder 4 and Responder 1 Port of Dampier

• 172.9 million tonnes of

throughput FY 14/15

• 21.4 million tonnes of

LNG exported

• 5022 piloted

movements

• 9239 movement by

exempt masters

Port of Dampier

• 23 operational berths

• 5.1 metre tidal range

• National Plan Stockpile

• Cooperative

arrangements with

proponents

• First Strike Response

Plan

Port of Ashburton

• Adjacent to the Port of

Onslow

• Construction of the

Wheatstone Project

• Construction contractor

maintains a first strike

capability

• PPA provides incident

management capability

Training and Annual Exercise

• WCR facilitates field team training every 6 to 8

weeks in Port Hedland and Dampier

• IMT members complete National Plan or

introductory AIIMS training

• IC and Functional Heads complete National

Plan training

• Annual exercise conducted at each site

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Numbers of Staff Trained Across PPA

• AIIMS Level 1 – 45

• AIIMS Level 2 – 5

• National Plan IMT Course – 11

• National Plan Functional Head Courses – 12

• National Plan Incident Controller – 4

• WA DOT Basic Operators Course – 20

• WA DOT Shoreline Course - 22

Questions?