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As result of the investigation a Security Improvement Programme (SIP) was carried out. Statoil has made significant improvements to security, management’s duty and responsibility and emergency response.
The following improvements have been made:
Area |
Improvements completed |
Security organisation | New corporate structure in place, all business areas have at least one security professional, implementation of professional security ladder ongoing |
Governance improvements | Simplification and re-design of security in the management system |
Threat and risk assessments | All offices and assets underwent security risk assessment before the end of 2014. Security threat updates published weekly on Travel@Statoil on Statoil’s company intranet |
Physical, personnel and information security | Security plans for all locations underway. New travel portal, location of employees while travelling, executive protection, background checks for all new employees, closing of external USB storage on computers, encryption solution, secure communication through Lync all established |
Security awareness and competence | 33 workshops for management committees delivered by the Security Improvement Programme (SIP) on all three areas of security, security generalist training introduced, several corporate-wide information activities implemented, rolling “phishing” campaign |
Monitoring and reporting | Security incident reporting in place in Synergi, simplified reporting implemented, monitoring plan for 2015 in place |
Networks | Established networks with industry peers, Norwegian government agencies and local security stakeholders for our international businesses |
A British Coroner’s Inquest into the attack on In Amenas conducted by the Royal High Courts of Justice in London was also conducted into the chain of events and security of the site.
The Coroner’s findings were in line with the description given of the chain of events during the attack by the Statoil investigation. The description of how security worked at the facility, and how it was organised, is commensurate with the Statoil report.
The Coroner also had a mandate to give recommendations for improvement of the security measures at the facility in order to prevent future deaths.
After having reviewed the improvements that have been made at In Amenas and had these evaluated by an independent security expert, Coroner Hilliard concluded that it was not necessary for him to make such recommendations. The implemented measures, he concluded, were satisfactory and also covered the recommendations made in the Statoil investigation.
The Coroner chose at the end of the findings to comment that Statoil’s investigation report demonstrated how an effective, timely and constructive inquiry can be held by a commercial organisation.