Implementation of integrated industrial security management in critical energy infrastructures

Abstract

As cases of industrial terrorism become more frequent around the world in the current context of industrial dynamism, exacerbated by the global military, energy and health crisis, this paper is of great importance and relevance. In order to ensure European well-being, European states, through its industrial objectives, must provide a range of facilities to its citizens, such as access to electricity, natural gas and fuel, in order to ensure the minimum comfort necessary for a normal and decent life. Knowing full well that access to these facilities is made through certain critical infrastructures (power plants, power substations, overhead/underground power lines, fuel storage depots, oil, natural gas and petrochemicals, refineries, crude oil pumping stations, oil pipelines, compression stations and distribution of natural gas, gas pipelines), they can be vulnerable by generating a number of risks and threats to them, thus endangering societal life, creating dysfunctions and causing extreme damage to European security and well-being.