The event, which became an annual tradition for DrilLife Group, differed from the previous ones by scale.
The Company employees, volunteer emergency response teams, independent fire-fighting service – totally of more than 150 people – took part in the event.
The main goal of the joint exercises was to improve interaction of personnel involved in the liquidation of oil spills, to develop emergency situations communication chart and to check the readiness of forces and means to respond in case of emergency.
According to the scenario, as a result of an unauthorized tie-in around the river, the underwater crossing of the commercial oil pipeline was damaged, and a leak occurred. Security guards managed to detain intruders, and DrilLife Group personnel – to localize and eliminate the consequences of the spill on the ground and water. Then the diver of the search and rescue team fixed the damage in the underwater part of the pipeline.
“The exercises have been held at a sufficiently high level, there are no remarks”, – the head of the company’s exercise program summed up the results.