Above Ground Risk

With over twenty years of experience in the extractive sector, our Above Ground Risk practice brings together significant capability. We manage enterprise risk associated with projects at every stage of their development; from exploration through production, to closure.

Our main effort is to maintain and improve the social licence to operate wherever possible. However, pressures from radical political change, criminality and economic hardship can generate scenarios that may fall outside the capacity of the operating company to manage unaided.

By combining our three key areas of competence: Asset Protection, Crisis Response and Intelligence, we have great experience of navigating the multitude of challenges facing our clients. Added to this our own understanding and developed experience of operational ESG planning and support makes us an informed partner when navigating investor and stakeholder concerns at various stages of a project’s development.

At asset level we assist by providing forward-looking security and risk management planning ahead of project commencement. We engage at the political and social level to understand the key issues likely to face the project and help to design solutions to mitigate them.

Through our SOLO+^TM teams, we provide active engagement with communities, local authorities and national security infrastructure to identify issues that might have a negative impact on projects. Mindful of IFC PS4 obligations towards host communities, we develop outcomes that consider all stakeholders.

Beyond the asset level we have a solid track record of developing engagement strategies to assist with political and regulatory threats to projects. With all government engagement mindful to our commitment to ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery and Corruption guidelines.

Above Ground Risk

Services we provide include:

Project security risk planning and analysis

Crisis response to asset level threats

Community and stakeholder risk planning

Government engagement strategies

Above Ground Risk

Asset Protection

Crisis Response

Intelligence