This master thesis presents an application of risk management in the early stage of a project life cycle of oilfield project. In order to examine how risk and risk. . .
In this thesis, risk management have been investigated in a case study which helped to realize how the construction industry works with this concept. The research has been carried out from January 2011 to may 2011, at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.-1
The thesis has been carried out with Bygg-Fast, a consultancy company within construction project management, where a school project has been investigated in order to do this research. The research has also been supervised by Sven Gunnarsson at Chalmers University of Technology and an examination of the thesis regarding the language and formatting was made by Nancy Lea Eik-Nes. We appreciate for their help and support in this thesis. We would also want to thank all respondents in the school project for their involvement in the interviews which we could support our research on. Göteborg May 2011 -1
one concept which is widely used within the field of RM is called the risk management process (RMP) and consists of four main steps: identification, assessment, taking action and monitoring the risks (Cooper et al., 2005). In each of these steps, there are a number of methods and techniques which facilitate handling the risks.-1