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Zurich delivers customized solutions using professional experience and strategic application of predictive analytics to help energy customers build more resilient organizations.
Energy solutions
By leveraging a global energy mix combining traditional oil and gas exploration and production techniques, power generation technologies and the ongoing integration of alternative energy sources, energy providers are working hard to meet the world’s growing demand for energy.
Whether in production, processing, logistics or storage, your insurer needs to provide coverage tailored for the energy markets you serve. Zurich’s experienced energy insurance and Risk Services professionals will analyze your company's needs and the risk challenges within its segment of the energy business. Together they will work to customize an insurance and risk management program that is right for your needs.
Why Zurich?
Zurich provides coverage for the major, conventional and emerging fields of energy production with industry-leading programs that serve production and distribution.
Energy solutions
The regulations of the mining industry can seem as complicated and challenging as extracting precious resources from the earth. With more than 25 years in the mining industry, Zurich helps you navigate environmental, political and financial challenges to help your business run productively and efficiently.
Our underwriters set the benchmark for risk gradings based on data gathered from more than 500 sites evaluated. Zurich serves qualified customers with solutions for:
- Hard-rock mining
- Metallurgical coal mining
- Metal/non-metal mining
- Processing facilities
- Contractors, equipment manufacturers and distributors
Zurich's mining solutions include:
- Risk-engineering professionals with specialized mining experience to help customers identify key risk exposures and develop plans to help mitigate them
- Dedicated property and casualty underwriters who focus on the mining business
- A single point of contact who understands claims services for mining
- Customer service delivered through a global network of Zurich offices and strategic partnerships in more than 200 countries and territories
- Risk Engineering Solutions
To keep their lights on and businesses running, you have a responsibility to your energy customers. Collaborate with Zurich to devise plans for smart energy consumption and reliable service. Zurich specialists average more than 25 years of experience and aim to offer structured, responsive solutions to the diverse needs of utilities and power-generation customers. Our professional knowledge includes solutions for:
- Power generation
- Gas-fired
- Hydroelectric
- Propane
- Co-generation
- Retail and wholesale
- Gas and electric utilities
- Independent power producers
- Manufacturers and distributors
Our risk solutions offer:
- Risk Services specialists with specialized, power-generation experience
- Underwriters who focus on the utility and power-generation industries
- Broad policy underwriting, including property damage, construction, transit coverage, and boiler and machinery
- Political risk coverage for investments or loans into emerging-market power projects including mitigation of the risks of non-payment by a government power offtaker
- Contingent business interruption, service interruption and extensions of coverage
Our current energy revolution has been powered by breakthroughs in exploration, drilling and production technologies. Zurich understands the opportunities and risks of a rapidly expanding domestic oil, gas and petrochemical sector. For more than 25 years, Zurich energy professionals have focused on the rapid response and quick turnaround that have led energy pioneers to thrive. Zurich supports this ever-evolving and expanding industry with domestic and international solutions that include, but are not limited to:
- Tailored onshore energy-property solutions, including all-risk physical damage, mechanical breakdown and business interruption, loss of production income
- Energy casualty solutions for primary general liability, commercial auto, excess and umbrella and pollution coverage
- A single point of contact who understands claims services under oil and gas, petrochemical and refining
- Customer service delivered through a seamless global network of Zurich offices and strategic partnerships in more than 200 countries and territories
Even domestic energy relies on foreign components and relationships, which is why understanding the risks and local country regulations inherent in doing business abroad is vital for energy producers. Zurich is one of the leading providers of international insurance programs, with a network of international program underwriters, risk specialists and dedicated international claims specialists who can help identify challenges, design a centrally managed coverage plan, and provide a prompt response should a loss occur.
In addition to the knowledge of our dedicated international program professionals, Zurich offers an online tool, Zurich Multinational Insurance Application (Zurich MIA), a regulatory, legal and insurance tax compliance database. The information in our database has evolved from the experience of managing more than 3,000 international programs issued locally and admitted in more than 200 countries and territories.
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