Emergency Response Management of Offshore Oil Spills

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff is a consultant to industry andgovernments on standard of care as it pertains to environmentalmanagement and worker protection. He has more than 35 years ofinternational consulting, business, and applied research anddevelopment experiences, having worked throughout Eastern Europe,Russia, parts of the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East,Africa, and the U.S. He has led and participated in hundreds ofpollution prevention and environmental health and safety audits oflarge industrial complexes including refineries, coke-chemicalplants, pulp and paper mills, steel mills, pharmaceutical andpesticide manufacturing plants, wood treating facilities, and otherindustrial operations. He has led and assisted several foreigngovernments in strengthening environmental laws and trained severalthousand regulators and industry personnel on environmentalauditing, pollution prevention and safe chemical management throughprograms sponsored by the U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment, European Union, and World Bank Organization. He is theauthor, co-author or editor of more than 150 technical books. Dr.Cheremisinoff earned his Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. in chemicalengineering from Clarkson College of Technology. Anton Davletshin is Senior Project Manager for N&P,Ltd, a firm specializing in standard of care assessments. Antonmanages sampling programs, conducts historical literature reviewsand assists in environmental impact assessments that aid N&Pstaff in forensic reconstruction of legacy pollution problems. Hisexpertise extends to applications of air dispersion simulationsusing EPA-approved AerMod used in the evaluation of communityimpacts from point and area sources of emissions from withinindustrial complexes. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute,he holds a degree in Construction Management.