Calgary-based Husky Energy was unable to tell senators in Ottawa Thursday whether the industry organization responsible for cleaning up an oil spill off the east coast has ever seen the company's spill response plan.

But a company executive said he is confident in the systems in place at its White Rose offshore operations southeast of St. John's.

The SeaRose floating production platform produces oil from Husky's White Rose well off the coast of Newfoundland. (CBC)

Husky's vice-president for East Coast operations, Paul McCloskey, told a senate committee that the firm has reviewed the control systems at its White Rose oil well in the wake of BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The panel had raised concerns about the relationship between energy firms and the Eastern Canada Response Corp., an industry organization that works alongside companies to clean up oil spills.

The ECRC has told the panel it does not see companies' plans for dealing with an oil spill until after one happens, which raised concerns among senators that there is no external review of those plans.

The ECRC is owned and funded by oil companies and regulated by the federal government.

McCloskey said he was unable to immediately confirm whether Husky has provided the group with advance plans in case an accident ever happened.

With files from The Canadian Press