Petroleum Enterprise R&D Project Risk Management Research

The investment of Petroleum Enterprise R&D project is large in scale, highly in professional skills and has many risk factors. Therefore, it will bring severe losses to the enterprise if it failed. Risk management is becoming increasingly important in the project management and gradually becomes an important part of it. Therefore, we should pay enough attention to the existing risk factors of the petroleum enterprise R&D project management. Thus, it has significant practical meaning to do in-depth research of the petroleum enterprise R&D project risk management in China.In this essay, after describing the research and development R&D project management, the basic theory of risk management, it then explained the petroleum development project risk categories and the classification of petroleum enterprise R&D project in china. To differentiate the risk of research project based on its characteristics, it can be divided into market risk, policy risk, economic risk, technical risk, management risk, human resource risk; Petroleum enterprise R&D project can be divided into major technical research projects, field test project, advance reserve project, promotion application project, R&D design and manufacturing integration project (RDMC). Different project type has different method of risk management.Different focus on risk identification has different risk analysis and evaluation, which leads to different measurements of risk control. At present, the problems of the petroleum enterprises R&D risk management mainly focus on management risk, technical risk, human resource risk, etc. Via researching on the petroleum enterprise R&D project risk classification, risk prediction and identification, analysis and evaluation, management process, and also combined with a case study of the petroleum enterprise R&D project risk management, it analysed the significance of risk management in R&D management from different risk factors. The exploration for the appropriate petroleum enterprise R&D project risk identification assessment model and risk control mode, analysing the project risk and improve risk control level, stimulate petroleum enterprise R&D project management, establish and improve the risk management mechanism can ensure the petroleum enterprise R&D project going smoothly.