The Presentation of Security Vulnerability Assessment in oil industry Case study: Marine Oil Industry

After the 9. 11 disaster inNew York، we have become more aware of the catastrophic threats in our communities. While the 9. 11 disaster was not directed toward the oil industry، chemical facilities may pose an attractive target for terrorism، with the purpose of using the effective physical and chemical properties to cause mass casualties، property damage، and economic or environmental impacts. This study focuses on assessing the security risk of the Man-made Disasters for critical assets in the oil industry. This research modifies conventional risk assessment methods for including terrorism and sabotage scenarios by Joshan model. The objective of this risk assessment is to identify security hazards، threats and vulnerabilities facing each target asset، and to find the adequate countermeasures to protect the public، workers، national interest، environment، and companies. This model includes five steps: asset characterization، threat assessment، vulnerability analysis، risk assessment and new countermeasures. Therefore، Joshan-Pro is introduced in order to security vulnerability assessment for critical asset protection.