I665E Bunker Sampling Guidelines

This Section is intended to provide guidance to Governments, including those of developing countries, on the techniques, equipment and strategies for sampling oil to identify unknown sources of spilled oil. Although references are given for the laboratory methods required for analysis, the emphasis in this text is on the details of the field work required to collect the samples.

Supplement Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954 (1981 Edition)

International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001 (2004 Edition)

This Convention establishes uniform international rules regarding salvage operations.

International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969. The Convention which protects the interests of coastal states threatened by marine pollution 1977 edition.