Jake Phillips

Principal Consultant, Strategic Security Risk Review

Jake Phillips is Principal Consultant on the strategic security risk review project at Kuwait Oil Company, the state company responsible for oil and gas exploration and production in Kuwait. A strategic security risk review at a national oil company goes beyond guarding sites: the assets stretch across fields, pipelines, pumping stations, refineries and export terminals; a stoppage anywhere in that chain halts production at a cost measured in millions a day; and they sit in a region where oil infrastructure has been tested by actual attacks in the past decade. A strategic review means reconsidering the threat assumptions themselves rather than only the efficiency of existing measures, and ranking assets by the impact of their loss rather than by their size.