Recent events demonstrate that oil spills are a continuous challenge to the oil industry. The industry is always developing and implementing new safety requirements to prevent oil spills from happening. Nonetheless, the risk of an oil spill is inherent to the upstream and downstream activities. If preventing oil spills from occurring is the most important priority, with technological assessment of equipment and procedures, preventing spills from reaching the shore is a second aspect to be considered. The coastal environment is where the state/country’s assets are located, where economical activities take place, and where marshes and estuaries that are nursery and feeding grounds for hundreds of marine species are found. However, strategies must be developed to protect the coast if necessary. To develop these strategies, it is first necessary to map the shoreline. Brazil has a coast of over 7000 km (4,300 miles). Although exploration and production in recent years has been concentrated mainly in the Campos and Santos basins, in the Southeast of the country, with the recent 11 th bid round, new exploratory frontiers will change the Brazil’s E&P map, expanding the activities to the sensitive North and Northeast coast. Due to the extension of the coast and in order to develop a product necessary for the industry, several oil company’s decided to work together to elaborate a Unified Shoreline Protection and Cleanup Project. This Project consists of strategic data basis obtained from primary data for each coastal segment. For each segment, information such as access, physical description, sensitivity index, coastal type and recommended response strategies are identified. This data are plotted in GIS systems and will assist in decision making processes. In the future, it could be used as a tool by Brazil’s National Contingency Plan. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the joint effort is important to the E&P industry, and the main results of the Unified Shoreline Protection and Cleanup Project.
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