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Etihad Wins Top Risk Management Award

energy_riskEtihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has been named Corporate Risk Manager of the Year at the Energy Risk Awards Asia in recognition of its highly-effective fuel hedging strategy.

The airline has built up its fuel hedging program over the last six years as a key tool to manage jet fuel price risk, allowing management to plan effectively.

Last year, Etihad Airways managed a fuel hedging portfolio of around 23.8 million barrels, up from only 6.5 million barrels in 2007 when the program started.

“In the turbulent oil markets of the last five years, we have been able to manage our risk and minimize oil price volatility effectively by forward hedging most of our fuel requirements, in both the short- and medium-term,” James Hogan, Etihad’s president and CEO, said.

Etihad“The airline’s fuel hedging policy and strategy was designed to create a stable environment for the management of the airline,” Mr. Hogan said.

Hedging is about creating a platform for certainty in planning. It is not intended as a tool to generate trading profits. That said, our deliberate policy of hedging significant portions of our risk consistently year after year since 2007 has been a key component of our journey to profitability,” James Rigney, Etihad’s chief financial officer, said

Etihad Airways currently has 80 percent of its fuel needs for the remainder of 2013 hedged, and has hedged 65 percent of 2014’s needs and 35 percent of 2015’s requirements.  

The hedging is spread across more than 20 counter-parties around the world, five of which were added in the last 12 months.

Energy Risk a is a specialized publication, offering a dedicated view of financial, political and regulatory risk in the world’s oil, gas, electricity, coal, emissions, freight and weather markets.

Its awards are held annually to recognize world class businesses within the energy trading and management sectors.

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