13 June 2019

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JOGMEC held Investment Seminar
JOGMEC（Head office: Minato-ku Tokyo, Chairman and CEO- Tetsuhiro Hosono） held a “JOGMEC
Investment seminar” with the subject “State of Queensland, Australia’s resources and energy policy andhydrogen business” on 4 June 2019.

In order to secure a stable supply of coal resources, JOGMEC invites visiting government
representatives from coal producing countries, coal company executives and coal sector specialist to
provide information on coal mine development and trends at investment seminars.
Since the signing of MOU with State of Queensland, Australia (hence Queensland) in September 2013,
JOGMEC has held 13 joint seminars. Most recently topics have included “Aurizon’s transport capacityreduction” in March 2018 and in March 2019 “Queensland Mineral Resources and Energy Regulation 2018
amendment”
The Queensland Government has recently announced a hydrogen industry strategy to support the future
development of renewable energy sourced hydrogen business in Queensland, as the next export industry,following coal and liquified natural gas.
In response to this, JOGMEC and the Queensland Government have included exchange of information
on hydrogen business in the MOU, the re-signing of which was undertaken at JOGMEC Head office on 27
May 2019 on the occasion of the Premier of Queensland, the Hon. Annastacia Palaszczuk’s visit to Japan.
This seminar was the first collaboration activity to be undertaken since the re-signing of the MOU.
We welcomed the Hon. Cameron Dick, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructureand Planning and Prof. Masakazu Sugiyama, Research Centre for Advance Science and Technology(RCAST), The University of Tokyo who gave presentations on Queensland’s hydrogen strategy as a partof the government resources and energy policy, the quantitative scenario of Japan’s 2050 energy flow
and the position of hydrogen in that scenario.
The seminar was attended by a large number of representatives from trading houses, resources andenergy companies, utility companies and industrial gas producers. JOGMEC will closely follow the1

implementation of policy measures and trends on use and production of hydrogen as a future energy,
looking to achieve outcomes in the Strategic Energy Plan that was announced in July 2018.
JOGMEC will continue to provide valuable information to secure stable supply of coal resources throughseminars and studies. For the latest information on coal mine resource developments, please see “CoalResource Information” at the below link or subscribe to “JOGMEC Coal Newsletter”■ Information about JOGMEC Coal Development department
Please click the link below to access JOGMEC Coal Development Department website.
（URL） http://coal.jogmec.go.jp/
Please click the link below to subscribe to JOGMEC Coal Newsletter.
（URL） http://coal.jogmec.go.jp/mailmagazine/index.html
JOGMEC and the State of Queensland, Australia re-sign MOU(URL) http://www.jogmec.go.jp/english/news/release/news_03_000006.html

Presenter, the Hon Cameron Dick

Presenter, Prof Masakazu Sugiyama

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Opening remarks by JOGMEC President, Mr Tomonobu Uchida

Scene from seminar3