Post-Conference Workshop C

Post-Conference Workshop C
Next Generation Responses to Emerging Threats to Oil & Gas Assets in MENESA

Rationale:
In the 21st century the global energy system has become more interdependent and vulnerable to a wide spectrum of contemporary threats ranging from powerful storms, major accidents, as well as criminal and/or politically motivated cyber and physical attacks to oil and gas infrastructure. Much investment is needed to improve aging infrastructure and build new infrastructure to meet growing global demand for oil and gas products. To meet today’s challenges, stakeholders from the public and private sector need to develop ways to work together to enhance resiliency. Thus, this workshop will address emerging threats and issues to oil & gas infrastructure and examine specific country-specific case studies of energy infrastructure security plans that incorporated a multi-sector governance approach.

Key Topics:
Overview of emerging threats to oil & gas infrastructure in MENESA Case studies on country-specific energy infrastructure security plans (successes and failures) Identification of contemporary tools to harmonize protection and security efforts amongst stakeholders

Benefits:
Attendees will come away from the workshop with a concrete understanding of new tools and concepts of sector-specific governance that have been used to address contemporary threats to the oil and gas sector.