RRT - ready to respond wherever the emergency

In this case, the simulated emergency was a Tier 3 worst-case discharge of diesel into the water of Apra Harbor on the Pacific Island of Guam. The RRT was called upon by the incident management team at Mobil Oil Guam’s Cabras Terminal to assist in responding to the ‘emergency’. 

One of our UK colleagues, Sam Cranston from Midstream, travelled direct to Guam to assist with the ‘clear-up’, while five others who are all members of the RRT, travelled to Kuala Lumpur to join an Emergency Support Group (ESG) established remotely to provide strategic assistance to the Incident Management Team on site.

Though this was ostensibly an Asia-Pacific RRT exercise, the RRT drew on specialist skills from its Americas and EAME RRT members to strengthen our response capability.

“It was fantastic to gather our Asia-Pacific RRT members together for the first face-to-face exercise in three years, and to involve some EAME and Americas’ RRT members,” says Travis Hansen, RRT coordinator for EAME and the Asia Pacific. “Even though we were split over two locations, the feedback we received from participants reinforced the value of bringing the team together to build our skills, to establish relationships and to maintain our incredible RRT culture.”

Other UK-based colleagues attending the exercise in Kuala Lumpur were Iain Stanley (Deputy Incident Commander), James Horner and Sam Capper (both from Operations) and Richard Scrase (Public & Government Affairs).