Research On Risk Management Of Urban Gas Enterprise

Urban gas has been regarded as the public welfare work in our country for a long time. As an important municipal infrastructure, the construction investment it requires is huge and long-cycle. After China joined the WTO, the wholesale market of oil has been opened for internation. Since the competition comes from both domestic and internation, high uncertainty becomed a marked feature of the competitive environment. For this reason, risk theory was introduced into gas enterprises management, and combined with gas enterprises’charactistics for effective risk management.At present, research on risk management for gas enterprises is still in its infancy. From this perspective, this paper focuses on risk management for gas enterprises, hoping to provide scientific theory and feasible method for urban gas enterprises. Several methods, such as system analysis, Interpretative Structural Modelling, ANP, fuzzy matter element evaluation method and empirical analysis, are synthesizedly used according to gas enterprises’charactistics, also the qualitative and quantitative technology. The innovative points are as follows:1. Risk management theory was applied to urban gas enterprises management and studied systematically. First the risk characteristics were analyse and risk and risk management for gas enterprises were defined clearly, considering the development of domestic and international urban gas enterprises. Then a theoretical framework of risk management for gas enterprises was build. Besides, we also studied the objective, principle, impacts, implement details and basic process of risk management for gas enterprises. The construction of risk management system for gas enterprises provides a theoretical foundation for further research.2. Risk factors which affect the survival and development of urban gas enterprises were studied, including social environment risk, market risk, management risk, technical risk, resource and pro-environment risk. In order to analyse the complex relationship among these five risk factors, an interpretative structural model for risk factors of gas enterprises was build based on ISM. Then the hierarchical relationship among risk factors of gas enterprises was discussed, guiding the quantitative analysis of gas enterprise risk.3. A risk evaluation system for urban gas enterprises was build, and an evaluation method combining ANP and fuzzy matter element was constructed. The risk evaluation system not only takes full account of the social welfare characteristic of urban gas enterprises, but also considers the market competition, thus reflecting risks of urban gas enterprises. Risk evaluation model combining ANP and fuzzy matter element takes complex relations among risk factors and the fuzziness into consideration. It provides the basis for quantitative risk analysis of gas enterprises.4. The paper focuses on risk prevention and control of urban gas enterprises with risk control technique. Risk control machnism of urban gas enterprises was discussed, and the corresponding control measures for each type of risk factors, which were feasible, were proposed.