The Southampton-based organisation which deals with oil spills around the world has signed a deal with an engineering firm which specialises in undersea operations.

Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) has announced the signing of a new “Strategic Cooperation Agreement” with Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd to support its Subsea Well Intervention Service (SWIS) members.

The agreement provides OSRL’s with access to Genesis’s extensive knowledge and expertise in subsea systems engineering.

OSRL is the largest international industry-funded cooperative.

It exists to respond to oil spills wherever in the world they may occur, providing preparedness, response and intervention services. OSRL is wholly owned by most of the environmentally responsible oil and gas companies around the globe, and its membership represents the majority of the world’s oil production.

It currently employs 260 people across twelve locations around the world. In relation to subsea well intervention services, OSRL owns, stores and maintains four capping stacks and two subsea incident response toolkits (SIRT), which are now strategically located in Norway, Brazil, Singapore and South Africa.

Genesis has around 1000 engineers and offices in 15 locations worldwide.