If you were hoping to read an article that gave you a guaranteed method of preventing protests on your company’s property then I am going to have to disappoint you. The reality for those in oil and gas industry security is that your facilities are too large, too complex and…
Adam Leggat is a former British Army officer who spent most of his career conducting counter terrorism and crowd management operations in Northern Ireland. For the last ten years he has worked for the Densus Group providing protest intelligence for companies and police departments across the United States as well as training police officers in crowd management in the United States and abroad.
Oil and gas operations are commonly found in remote locations far from company headquarters. Now, it's possible to monitor pump operations, collate and analyze seismic data, and track employees around the world from almost anywhere. Whether employees are in the office or in the field, the internet and related applications enable a greater multidirectional flow of information – and control – than ever before.