Adrian LuckinsVP HSSE & Engineering

5th October 2010

Deepwater Horizon Containment and Response:

Harnessing Capabilities and Lessons Learned

• Our sense of concern and determination to make things right have never been stronger

• One way is to share lessons learned and the capabilities developed

• Scope, scale, and complexity of the response have driven large capability advances -- these should

be an integral part of an improved industry planning and response ability

• Full report available on www.bp.com (Gulf of Mexico homepage)

Challenges Were Large Scale and Complex

Source Control

• Subsea containment

• Simultaneous Operations

• Relief wells

• Subsea Dispersants

Offshore to Shoreline

• Oil surveillance

• Skimming

• Controlled burning

• Dispersants

• Shoreline protection

• Shoreline cleanup

• Local community partnerships

• Vessels of opportunity

• Waste management

• Wildlife rehabilitation

• Air ops / de-confliction

Information

Needs of All

Source Conditions

Weather Potential

Extent of

Affected Area

Deepwater Horizon Containment and Response: Harnessing Capabilities and Lessons Learned

Lesson 1: Collaboration

A broad range of stakeholders has come together in the wake of the Deepwater

Horizon incident to provide effective solutions and build new capabilities.

Lesson 2: Systemization

The response has required the development of extensive systems, procedures

and organizational capabilities to adapt to changing and unique conditions.

Lesson 3: Information

Timely and reliable information has been essential across both the containment

and response operations to achieve better decision-making, ensure safe

operations and inform stakeholders and the public.

Lesson 4: Innovation

The urgency in containing the spill and dealing with its effects has driven

innovation in technology, tools, equipment, processes and know-how.

The experiences and new capabilities gained can be grouped into four broad areas

Examples & key facts

• At peak, collaboration brought together:

– More than 47,800 responders

– Dozens of federal, state, local agencies

– 8 exploration & production operators

• Five Incident Command Posts; 19 Branch Offices

• More than 6,000 marine vessels, including

approximately 5,800 Vessels of Opportunity

• Common Operating Picture: instant visualization of oil

movement & characterization

• Remote Operated Vessels connected to Highly Immersive

Visual Environment

• Enhanced Gulf Radio Infrastructure

• Dozens of innovations across equipment,

systems, process, procedure, and

organizational schemes

Subsea Operations – ROV s and SIMOPs

Capability Highlights

•Safe simultaneous operation of numerous

ROVs in close proximity to perform a wide

range of novel interventions

•Development of techniques enabling the

simultaneous operation for extended

periods of 19 major vessels in a narrow

radius and hazardous conditions without

incident

Subsurface, Seabed and Water Column Monitoring

Helix Producer

Capability Highlight

•Coordinating industry, agency and academic expertise to efficiently

produce reliable, high-quality data on subsurface, seabed and water

column conditions

• Radar satellite

• Plane deployed buoys

• Discus Buoys

• Argo Floats

• GCMS hydrocarbon

analyzer

• Towfish acoustic

• SIMRAD EK-60

acoustic monitoring

• Sentinel snare

program

• Trawl nets

• ROVs

• Core sampler

• Rosette

• Acoustic Doppler

current profiler

• Glider AUV

• Gulper AUV

Array of forces deployed from the source to the shore to locate, assess, and remove oil

AIR OPS

Capability Highlight

•Specific booming plans and

placement detail across the multi-

state response area, grounded in

Area Contingency Plans and

informed by actual performance and

effectiveness

From Offshore to Shoreline“All Oil Spill Response is Local”

Preparedness

Wildlife and Vessels of Opportunity

Helix Producer

Capability Highlights

•An expanded pool of trained responders along with protocols and procedures to integrate and support

accelerated response to impacts on wildlife

•Foundations for a vetted, trained, and knowledgeable fleet of VOO shoreline and community responders

integrated into response structure

Tactical Communications; SCATs;and Air Surveillance

Helix Producer

Capability Highlights

•An in-place repeater radio system stretching from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana and a robust

software information backbone supporting response activities

•Modular scale-up of SCATs, a critical asset in shoreline assessment, remediation and mapping, with

protocols ensuring consistency of process and data collection

•Use of strategic and tactical aerial surveillance, including up to 100 sorties on peak days, to serve not

only as eyes of the response, but as directors for open water and onshore activities

Aerial Dispersantsand Booming

Helix Producer

Capability Highlights

•Precise and effective application of dispersants driven by advanced surveillance technology and

operational streamlining supported by a network of global experts

•The largest mobilization of boom in any oil spill response – a total of more than 14 million feet – and

significant expansion of the supply chain and number of experts

Marsh Cleaningand Beach Cleaning

Helix Producer

Capability Highlights

•Successful, modular expansion of “small-scale”, minimally invasive clean up techniques, including

deployment to remote locations

•New turnkey approaches to beach cleaning employing advanced technology, sensitivity to the public,

and close cooperation with communities

Deepwater Horizon Containment and Response: Harnessing Capabilities and Lessons Learned

• We are sharing our lessons, experiences and advancements

• We are taking a number of steps to advance sustaining and expanding these

capabilities

• We are leveraging industry mechanisms to make these capabilities accessible to all

GOM operators

• www.bp.com/

• Deepwater Horizon Containment and Response: Harnessing Capabilities and

Lessons Learned

We are determined to maintain and strengthen these new capabilities:

Mobilization