Managing the Risk Environment

RISK REVIEW OF BP

REPORT

Background

Everyday BP serve around 13 million customers in more than 100 countries across 6 continents, providing products that improve their quality of life-fuel, energy for heat and light and petrochemicals for use in everyday items such as textiles, packaging and health products. Everyday more than 100,000 people combine their energy and innovation to make BP one of the world’s leading companies.


BP Risks

Financial

Financial risks exist in many forms. Not meeting annual growth targets and not investing sufficiently in new fields due to being short sighted and return of assets low is one of many dangers that BP faces. Analysts expect sales of up to $3 billion of mature assets around the world, most of which will come from the North Sea, Alaska and other parts of North America. This time OPEC may consider temporarily suspending its output limit altogether, but that will do little if the group is about to reach its maximum capacit...