5. Discussion
The foregoing, once again, highlights that even though both groups of respondents appear to concur on a handful of project risks, there exists the unresolved problem of allocating the remaining ones especially those identified by both groups as highly critical. The latter can be considered as ‘grey’ areas that require careful negotiations between the two parties before their allocation can be decided. The following discussion sheds some light on two highly-ranked critical risk factors (from the operator’s perspective) on which both parties appear to fail reach a reasonable level of agreement on risk allocation.