The oil and gas sector is attuned to and understands risk, but the search for new reserves takes the industry into ever more remote and unstable regions of the world. Operators will often find themselves working amongst societies where oil and gas reserves are regarded by them as their patrimony - the development of which can arouse a range of potentially adverse responses. 

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Concurrently, difficult legacy issues inherent in continuing operation and development of existing production areas will require carefully sensitively calibrated security management approaches. 

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These operational realities mean that the industry's risk management requirements will continue to evolve and expand.