Chevron Corporation is a giant international oil company in North America providing energy and chemical products such as crude oil and natural gas to the growth of the world’s economies. Chevron’s mission is to create superior value for the stockholders, customers, employees. It is also known by its reputation on environmental risk management and environment conservation.
Each year, Chevron has spent large sums of investments on environmental risk management programs and also accounted for a large amount of cost of incidents happened during the operation process. Despite the achievement on financial performances in recent years, Chevron consistent looked into the risk management process and intended to find new ways on environmental risk management.
In the first part, we will identify the type of environmental risks that Chevron would face in the process of oil exploration, oil exploitation, crude oil transportation and oil refining. In the second part, we will assess the effectiveness of using the traditional tools on environmental risk management programs.
In the third part, we will introduce the development of the quantitative risk management methods and assess the effect of using DEMA decision marking system. In the final part, we will give arguments on the company-wide use of DMAE for the systematic analysis of risk management options.
In conclusion, our report has made an overall assessment on the effectiveness of managing environment risk both by using traditional tools and also the quantitative methods. We are certain that the traditional tools are effective in managing the environmental risk and the quantitative method is also effective in terms of lowering the cost of environmental risk management. From the risk management perspective, our ultimate goal is to find ways in the future environmental risk management which is not only effective but also efficient.
Introduction:Part 1: Identify the type of environmental risks of Chevron
Part2:The analysis of traditional risk management tools used by Chevron
Tool 1: Insurance against external environmental risk
Tool 2: Internal risk management (Policy 530)
Tool 3: Employee education and training programs
Tool 4: The Success Sharing Plan
Part3:The development of the quantitative risk management methods and the effect of using DEMA decision marking system
Part4:Argument on the company-wide use of quantitative risk management tools like DMAE for the systematic analysis of risk management options.
Conclusion: