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The following links have been provided to assist in finding useful spill tools that are availiable on the internet.  Each of the respective agencies or companies retains all rights and permissions to the software.

     NOAA's - Office of Restoration and Response

Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills (ADIOS2)®  is an oil spill response tool to assist oil spill responders and contingency planners in making decisions on potential response strategies. ADIOS2® integrates a library of approximately one thousand oils with a short-term oil weathering and cleanup model to help you to develop cleanup strategies based on estimates of the amount of time that spilled oil will remain in the marine environment. 

Spill Tools is a collection of three tools you can use to assess how effectively you can recover, remove, or disperse spilled oil using: 

  • mechanical equipment, such as skimmers, to remove oil from the sea surface.
  • in situ burning, to burn off freshly spilled oil.
  • chemical dispersants, to disperse the spilled oil throughout the water column.

Spill Tools was designed to help you to complete tasks like: 

  • selecting and staging response equipment, such as skimmers, fire boom, and dispersant applicators.
  • deploying your equipment as effectively as possible.
  • comparing the performance you might get from different kinds of equipment or deployment strategies.

Spill Tools was designed especially for members of Area Committees (defined under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan), who need to prepare "local area plans" for responding to potential oil spills in a particular geographic area (such as Puget Sound or San Francisco Bay). Area Committee members can use Spill Tools to find out how to effectively deploy the various response resources available to them, in the event of a spill.

 Dispersant Mission Planner 2 (DMP2)®  is a tool that spill responders and planners can use to assess dispersant application system performance.

DMP2 is an update to the Dispersant Mission Planner that was originally part of the Spill Tools software collection. Its new features:

  • DMP2 enables Oil Spill Removal Organizations (OSROs) to evaluate Effective Daily Application Capacities (EDAC) for different dispersant application systems, using DMP2's EDAC Mode. This allows OSROs to evaluate compliance with the dispersant application requirements in new Coast Guard rules. 
  • In Operational Mode, DMP2 provides general performance estimates for the application of dispersants involving a specified oil spill concentration, application platform, and scenario.  It can be used to refine and optimize system configurations and to examine staging and logistical support.

Acknowledgements

NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration thanks the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Coast Guard, and ExxonMobil for assistance in preparation of DMP2. DMP2 is based on original algorithms provided by Spiltec, coding provided by Genwest Systems, Inc., and platform data provided by CA Huber, Inc.

*Effective September 30, 2009, the Coast Guard's rules for facility and vessel owner planholders will require dispersant capability. To demonstrate this capability, planholders will need to make manual calculations of EDAC for each dispersant application platform they intend to use, or use DMP2.  

  United States Environmental Protection Agency

ALOHA (Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) is a computer program designed especially for use by people responding to chemical releases, as well as for emergency planning and training. ALOHA® models key hazards—toxicity, flammability, thermal radiation (heat), and overpressure (explosion blast force)—related to chemical releases that result in toxic gas dispersions, fires, and/or explosions.  Can be used in correlation with CAMEO®.

 Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO)® is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA), to assist front-line chemical emergency planners and responders. They can use CAMEO to access, store, and evaluate information critical for developing emergency plans. In addition, CAMEO supports regulatory compliance by helping users meet the chemical inventory reporting requirements of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, also known as SARA Title III). CAMEO also can be used with a separate software application called LandView ® to display EPA environmental databases and demographic/economic information to support analysis of environmental justice issues.

The CAMEO system integrates a chemical database and a method to manage the data, an air dispersion model, and a mapping capability. All modules work interactively to share and display critical information in a timely fashion. The CAMEO system is available in Macintosh and Windows formats.