Analysis of operational risk management in the Nigerian oil and gas industry
This study explores the operational risks that are apparent in the Nigerian Oil and gas industry and the operational risk management (ORM) employed in mitigating such risks. In doing this, the study looked at the extent to which operational risk management has reached in the Nigerian oil and gas ind...
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| Format: | Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27195/ |
| Summary: | This study explores the operational risks that are apparent in the Nigerian Oil and gas industry
and the operational risk management (ORM) employed in mitigating such risks. In doing this,
the study looked at the extent to which operational risk management has reached in the Nigerian
oil and gas industry and how this operational risk management is carried out. Hence it involved
researching if enterprise risk management (ERM) is used in managing such operational risk
especially as ERM is considered by many authors to be the new risk management paradigm. The
general consensus is that ERM and ORM are similar when it comes to managing operational
risks. Existing literature on ORM is predominantly on financial institutions with little reference
to its implementation in non-financial institution thus the study was done to shed some light on
the existence of ORM in one of such 'non-financial industries' which is the Nigerian oil and gas
industry essentially as the oil and gas industry face lots of operational risks ranging from need in
health and safety, environmental pressures resulting from oil spill accidents to protecting
industry image and minimizing of business interruptions as a result of the problems associated
with Niger Delta region of the country in which most of the operations are carried out. The study
found out that ORM does exist to a reasonable extent in managing risks in the Nigerian oil and
gas industry and it is indeed closely linked with the process of enterprise risk management. |
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