The NOWPAP DELTA Joint Oil Spill Response Exercise was conducted on 21 October 2014 near Vladivostok, Russia. This joint exercise brought together one helicopter and seventeen ships including one from Japan Coast Guard to test rescuing crew members, firefighting and responding to oil spill. Korea dispatched observers to the exercise which was completed successfully. Such full-scale exercises have been organized five times in NOWPAP member states since the Regional Oil and HNS Spill Contingency Plan was adopted in 2004.
Implementation of NOWPAP contributes to the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) in the Northwest Pacific region.