In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company in exchange for a predetermined service fee.
Enabling a risk-adjusted operating model can help companies align their risk management programs with business and regulatory concerns.
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It is one of the world's great shames that such abuse draws almost no attention, and apart from the efforts of private individuals operating at great risk, like Hae-young Lee or her North Korean interviewees, almost nothing gets done about it.
Hitachi has never before taken on the risk of operating a nuclear power utility, as opposed to simply building and selling the plants.
In recent years, too many financial firms have put taxpayer money at risk by operating hedge funds and private equity funds and making riskier investments to reap a quick reward.
He also sees risk of higher operating expenses as the company builds out a new back-end platform.
In particular, it tells a bidder how much capital its so-called Train Operating Company (TOC) would have to hold as a protection for taxpayers against the risk that in the course of operating the franchise the TOC went bust or risked going bust.
Many of them were high-risk flights from forward operating bases in the countryside.
But few of those who use the two languages regularly risk running the two operating systems side by side.
When the economy is operating below potential there is little risk of inflation.
The crew aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier has massive turnover rates yet maintains their shared knowledge and 90 years of accumulated expertise, operating at extremely high levels of risk and expertise.
So by borrowing money at the holding company level at, say, 10% pretax, Catacosinos and his investors can put it to work earning 125 basis points more, aftertax, at the operating company level with nary a risk.
And there are also fears that the ever louder discussion among politicians and the public of an exit strategy and troop withdrawals will send a clear signal to the Taliban and the Afghan people that Western forces will not be there for much longer, so co-operating with them may be a risk that is simply not worth taking.
Summary: Following the latest global economic crisis, organizations of all types are still operating in a volatile, highly changeable risk environment.
Many companies operating in Colombia and other high-risk countries take out ransom insurance policies on their employees because the risk of kidnapping is so high.
The increasing frequency of sectarian violence, some of it fanned by Buddhist extremists, has added a new risk for companies and foreigners operating in the emerging market and is proving to be President Thein Sein's biggest challenge in opening the country to investors.
Businesses will only face health and safety inspections if they are operating in areas deemed to be higher-risk, such as construction and food production, or if they have had an accident or a track record of poor performance.
Colin Witheat, SmithKline's risk manager, says he can halve operating costs by cutting the fees he once paid an insurer to front business around the world.
In fact, over the past three years Deutsche Bank has deliberately and dramatically reduced its dependence on risk-taking as a source of operating earnings, while enjoying more substantial progress with clients than at any time in its recent history.
He took with him the Harvard heads of domestic and international fixed income and both their staffs, as well as the chief risk officer, chief technology officer and chief operating officer.
Unfortunately, it also raises the risk that laws and regulations will just add to operating costs that investors ultimately bear.
Today, based on your medical history, surgeons can usually analyze, quite accurately, your risk of complications (or death) before setting foot in the operating room.
But it included long 'to do' lists to make sure old platforms, operating in very challenging corrosive conditions, are not putting offshore workers or the environment at risk.
The risk to Microsoft lies in seeing its enterprise franchise undermined by mobile, as other operating systems are dominant in this one sphere where people and companies are buying more.
"Serious political risk continues to be a key ratings constraint, and as a result, the operating and financial risks facing corporations continue to be high or even growing, " she said darkly.
Operating in an environment of continuous feedback and best practices sharing, and a high margin for risk, CDFIs have evolved into nimble, adaptable entities that can serve distressed marketplaces, which also now happen to be the fastest growing in this country.
Our role at the Treasury Department was to support the independent regulators and their efforts with private parties as credit markets were operating under considerable stress, and we believed that certain prudent actions would help to mitigate systemic risk, enhance liquidity, facilitate more orderly markets, and minimize risks to the taxpayers.
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Small businesses can also minimize risk by restricting employee access to sensitive company or customer data and by keeping software and operating systems current to defend against the latest malware and viruses.
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Despite a country founded by risk-takers, our schools are the antithesis of American culture--bound by arcane rules, operating regardless of outcomes, eschewing creative technologies and managing human resources like spokes in a wheel, without differentiation or reward.
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