This study examined the relationship between logistics management practices and the organisational resilience of oil and gas firms in Rivers State, Nigeria, together with the moderating role of technology adoption propensity. Reverse logistics and third-party logistics served as proxies of logistics management practices, while adaptability and agility measured organisational resilience. Anchored on the positivist paradigm, contingency theory and the dynamic capabilities theory, the study adopted a cross-sectional explanatory survey design. The accessible population comprised 850 middle-to-top management staff of the 53 midstream oil and gas firms in Rivers State registered with the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria, from which a sample of 265 was drawn using the Krejcie and Morgan table and simple random sampling. Data were gathered through a structured, five-point Likert questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed, and 210 usable copies (79.25% usable rate) were analysed through Partial Least Squares–Structural Equation Modelling via SmartPLS 4. The findings revealed that reverse logistics had a weak, positive and non-significant relationship with adaptability, but a moderate, positive and significant relationship with agility. Third-party logistics exhibited a strong, positive and significant relationship with adaptability, yet a weak, positive and non-significant relationship with agility. Technology adoption propensity did not significantly moderate the logistics–resilience relationship. The study concludes that logistics management practices relate to resilience selectively rather than uniformly, each practice strengthening a distinct capability. It recommends that oil and gas firms institutionalise reverse-logistics systems to sharpen agility and deepen well-governed third-party-logistics partnerships to build adaptability, while embedding digital logistics technologies directly into operations.

Keywords: logistics management practices, reverse logistics, third-party logistics, organisational resilience, technology adoption propensity