China's Oil Spill Emergency Response System To Run Assessment And Development Strategies

Since 1993 when China became a crude oil import country, the import amount of crude oil has ascended annually. Currently, China has become the world's third largest crude oil import country, with 123 million tons of crude oil imported in 2004, and 127 million tons in the past year. According to the exports' prediction, during the next five year, the annual demand for crude oil of China will increase by 4.3 to 5.4 percent.The increasing amount of crude oil to be transported by tanker, the utilization of larger tankers to transport, and the aging trend of the tankers all increase the chance of oil spill incident. Confronted with the increasing opportunity of oil pollution, Chinese government has made great effort to establish her own oil spill contingency response system, which has successfully dealt with many oil pollution emergencies, with some of its shortcomings revealed in the process.Compared with relevant operational systems of other advanced countries, there is still a long way for China to go. For example, the oil spill apparatuses are out-dated, the oil spill response teams are not experienced, and what is more important, there is a shortage of fund. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore our oil spill contingency response system. It is the author's hope that the research will be a helpful guide to improve China's own system.The first two chapters mainly introduced the IMO regulation--- the OPRC90, the development of China's oil spill contingency response system and current status of the system. The third chapter used the methods of mathematics to establish a math model. Through the processing with fuzzy set, the article offered an objective evaluation of the system and pointed out sectors that need improvement. The fourth chapter, with the comparative methods adopted, made an analysis of the oil spill contingency response systems of U.S and Japan, It can be easily found that the advantages of their systems shed some light on the improvement of our system. Based on the evaluation of China's oil spill contingency...