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Oil – The indispensable resource, by Brij Khindaria

What would truly be a nightmare for our quickly globalizing world economy? Most likely, successful terrorist attacks on major Saudi oil fields that send crude oil prices through the roof. That would greatly impoverish the developing world, destabilize world trade and financial systems, and possibly trigger an economic recession. Serious, perhaps irretrievable, damage would occur to global peace, security and prosperity. Emboldened by success, terrorists might conduct more bloody attacks against innocent civilians to overthrow governments and seize political…

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Open Sourcing Risk Management

Risk management is about managing uncertainty arising from a lack of knowledge about what will happen, or will not happen, in the future. Risk management is going through a paradigm shift with the broad application of the Australian/New Zealand Risk Management Standard (AS/NZ) 4360:2004. This tool moves risk management away from a central command and control approach in the hands of a few technical experts to allow personnel working at the coal face to establish their own operating context…

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