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Scrutinizing Threats to International Energy Industry from Vandalism...

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20512) has announced the addition of The Fundamentals of Energy Infrastructure Security: Risk Mitigation In The International Environment to their offering of the world's most comprehensive single source of intelligence on physical security issues in the global energy sector.



This all-encompassing new report examines threats to the energy industry from vandalism, terrorism, low-intensity conflict and war. It provides a guide to effective risk mitigation techniques for energy companies operating in difficult security environments and includes the only single source compilation available of historical and current energy infrastructure security challenges and incidences in 40 countries and energy producing regions.



This unique work, the result of more than a decade of on-the-ground research, will help companies and governments pool information about energy sector attacks around the world and significantly enhance the ability of companies to make accurate threat assessments, optimize security planning and protect facilities more effectively.



Written by Paul Hueper, an expert on global comparative energy infrastructure security issues who has assisted both governments and companies in meeting energy security challenges.



For many observers - including Western governments and militaries - concerns about energy security are linked primarily to the security of oil supplies from the Mideast Gulf. Although more than 20% of the world's oil supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz, analyses of the security of global oil balances often fail to take into account the full scope of threats and risks to other regional and country-specific oil supplies. This often is not done because even in the worst cases, such as with oil pipeline bombings in Colombia or militant take-overs of oil facilities in Nigeria, disruptions to world supplies are either limited or temporary in nature. But attacks on energy infrastructure can be debilitating to both regional markets - which may rely not only on oil volumes from a particular country, but also on specific crude slates needed by refiners - and the economic and political stability of individual countries. Colombia is a prime example: industry confidence in the government's ability to secure the countryside waned in the mid-1990s, leading to a downturn in foreign investment in the country's oil sector.



Contents are entitled as follows:



Part 1: Overview of Global Energy-Infrastructure Security



Part 2: Energy Infrastructure Vulnerability



Part 3: Risk Mitigation



Part 4: Country Profiles



For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20512



Laura Wood

Senior Manager

Research and Markets

Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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