JOGMECTechnology createsa prosperous future

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security

An independent administrative agency in Japan contributing to securing stable
and affordable supply of energy resources including oil, natural gas, coal andother fossil fuels, geothermal power, hydrogen and ammonia, offshore windTechnical
Business
Strategy

power, as well as metal resources including base and rare metals. Its mission is
to contribute to protecting the health of the Japanese people and preserving theirliving environment.

TRC

Technology & Research Center

The Technology & Research Center of JOGMEC for oil and natural gas development
promotes research and development activities on exploration and production,and develops human resources. It promotes Japanese technical ability in oil andnatural gas development as a central research body.

Technology & Research Center (TRC)

Contact

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)
1-2-2 Hamada, Mihama-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba 261-0025, Japan
Tel: +81-43-276-9212 E-mail: publication@jogmec.go.jp
2023.08

ENERGY
SECURITY

Transformation to a sustainable society is progressing all over the world.
In Japan, promotion of thorough energy conservation and implementation of

CCS

CARBONNEUTRALITY

Contribute to theimplementationof CCS projects
by utilizing theexisting knowledge

Challenge new
businesses toward
a carbon neutral
societyrenewable energy is advancing toward realization of carbon neutrality in 2050.
Meanwhile, many challenges will remain until carbon neutrality
and energy security are both realized.
Therefore, JOGMEC announced its Technical Business Strategy to contributeto overcoming difficult issues in realizing both carbon neutrality andenergy security, which may contradict each other at a glance.
The Technical Business Strategy is comprised of the three pillars of‘Maintain and expand stable energy supply’ , ‘Contribute to theimplementation of CCS projects by utilizing the existing knowledge’ ,and ‘Challenge new businesses toward a carbon neutral society’ ,with ‘Maintain and strengthen human resources/technical capabilities’as the foundation of these technologies.
Japanese society may face various difficulties inrealizing carbon neutrality and energy security simultaneously,
but JOGMEC believes its technologies‘will overcome any difficulties’ and will continue to improve them.

Technical
Business
Strategy

Maintainandexpand stableenergy supply

Oil and natural gas
business area

Advanced
technologies
simultaneously
realizeenergy security andcarbon neutrality

CCS business area

Hydrogen andammonia business area

Maintain and strengthen
human resources/technical capabilities
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ENERGY SECURITY

CCS

Maintain and expand stable energy supply
JOGMEC/TRC continues technological contribution to stable anddiversified supply by maintaining and increasing production at oil and gas fields while coping with social needs.

Exploration Technology
In its seismic reservoir monitoring, JOGMEC develops technologies
for both data acquisition and data imaging. In data acquisition,
JOGMEC develops a recording system combining an Accurately
Controlled Routinely Operated Signal
System (ACROSS) and fiber optic-based
distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). In
data imaging, JOGMEC has specialized
knowledge of full waveform inversion(FWI) analysis.

Drilling and
Production Technology
Drilling wells may encounter troubles such as stuck
pipes caused by wellbore collapse. JOGMEC isdeveloping a technology which allows it to foreseesuch drilling troubles from analyses of real-time
drilling data using artificial intelligence (AI).

Methane hydrate occurs widely in the seas of Japan and is expected
to become a domestic energy resource in our resource-poor
country. JOGMEC continues research and development activities
enabling future commercial production, which include delineation of
methane hydrate concentrated
zones through exploration activities
offshore Japan, development of
production technologies,andenvironmental impacts studies.

Carbon dioxide capture and storage,
CCS, is a technology to capture CO2
generated during the development ofenergy resources such as oil/natural
gas and the production ofhydrogen/ammonia, and stably store
it in deep underground geologicalformations for a long time. The
commercialization of a CCS projectrequires both ‘surface technology’
including facility construction, CO2
capture etc. and ‘subsurface
technology’ to evaluate reservoir
conditions and technically verify that
CO2 injected deep undergroundremains stably stored.
JOGMEC utilizes its expertise in
optimizing surface facilities
accumulated in demonstration tests
and its expertise in evaluating
subsurface formations built up overits 50 years’ history, and conducts
proof of concept and feasibility
studies in actual domestic/overseas
oil/gas fields, thus contributing to theestablishment of CCS technology.

A core sample acquired at the site for along-term production test in Alaska. The
sand layer contains methane hydrate.
Source: MH21-S R&D consortium

Environmental Protection
Technology

Rock mechanical testing
apparatus to evaluate rockdeformation character in TRC

Maintain and strengthen
human resources/technical capabilities
JOGMEC aims to continue to be a Japanese center for ‘human resources/technical capabilities’ .

JOGMEC promotes collaborative research on feasibility evaluation
to support a clean hydrogen and ammonia business.

JOGMEC promotes development and application ofdigital technology into resource development andcultivates human resources familiar with digital andE&P technologies. This is to reach the objective ofserving as a ‘center of knowledge for digital technology
in the resource development fields’ .

Reservoir Engineering Technology

EOR and well-stimulation
technology
Upper right: EOR, lower right:
hydraulic fracturing, upper left:
acidizing (dissolution of mineralveins), lower left: acidizing(formation of flow pass)

JOGMEC acquires key technologies and accumulates expertise though the opportunitiesof domestic/overseas demonstration tests to acquire strength in the CCS business field.

CCS Business

Clastic Rock determination by AI (left:
microscopic image, center: image
annotated by an expert (yellow:
sandstone, green: mudstone), right:
analytic image by AI)

JOGMEC has expertise in geomechanics forpredicting problems related to deformation andfailure of rock materials that may lead to collapses
of wells/perforation during drilling and production.
JOGMEC operates rock mechanical testing
apparatus to ascertain
rock mechanicalproperties that are
fundamental information
for geomechanicalstudies.

Challenge new businesses toward
a carbon neutral society

Methene Hydrate Development

Image of a stuck pipecaused by wellbore
collapse

Geomechanics Technology

Contribute to the implementation of CCS
projects by utilizing the existing knowledge

Digital Technology

Seismic reservoir monitoring using ACROSSJOGMEC endeavors to develop enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) technology
and well-stimulation technology to increase well productivity of oil andgas reservoirs. For example, JOGMEC has been developing CO2-EOR
technology, which increases productivity of oil reservoirs by injecting
CO2 and contributes to preventing global warming, hydraulic-fracturing
technology, which increases productivity through developing fracturesby injecting liquid into a reservoir, and acidizing technology, which
increases productivity by dissolving formation rocks. Well-stimulation
technology in particular is also anticipated to increase injectivity of CO2
in the CCS business.

CARBON NEUTRALITY

Environmental protection technology is required todecrease the environmental impacts of oil and gas
production. JOGMEC develops a technology toeliminate residual oil in produced water from oil fields
using ceramic membranes. In addition, it is developing
a technology for decreasing the volume of crude-oil
sludge in storage tanks, which is commonly treated asindustrial waste.

Domestic Exploration
The 3D seismic survey vessel ‘TANSA’ , owned by JOGMEC,
acquires high quality seismic data to assess hydrocarbon potential
in Japan’ s offshore waters. TANSA is equipped with dual-sensor(hydrophone & geophone) streamer cables and tows them at a
deeper depth (circa 20m), which enables surveying under marginal
water conditions.

Upper left: A sample ofproduced water
Upper right: A sample oftreated water
Right: A treating plant for
waste water

The resource development industry faces the serious issue
of a declining number of human resources. In addition,
mainstream areas for oil and gas development tend to belocated in areas difficult to develop such as deep-sea or Arctic
regions, and require sophisticated technologies. This is why
further sophisticated technologies are required to realize
carbon neutrality and energy security. JOGMEC has been
providing training courses for foreign experts to bolster its

The 3D seismic survey
vessel ‘TANSA’
towing a series oflong streamers

relationships with oil and gas producing countries, conducting
research and development activities to contribute to acquisitionof assets by Japanese companies, and providing basic data
to researchers involved in resource development in Japanesecompanies, thereby supporting Japanese resource development.
JOGMEC aims to contribute to resource security and carbon
neutrality through technical support in the areas of CCS andhydrogen/ammonia as well.

N2,etc..
Separating andCapturing

Injection

Power plant,
refinery, etc..

Transportation

CO2

Reservoir

CO2

Hydrogen and Ammonia BusinessHydrocarbon, including oil andnatural gas, is composed of carbon
and hydrogen molecules. Hydrogenand ammonia are produced fromhydrocarbon by a reforming process.
Hydrogen and ammonia are drawing
attention as future fuels that do notemit CO2 during power generation
etc. Such fuels are essential for
realizing carbon neutrality. JOGMEC
has been supporting feasibility
studies on the hydrogen andammonia business involving
Japanese companies across thevalue-chain, including CCS requiredfor clean fuel from hydrocarbon.
JOGMEC contributes to therealization of carbon neutrality byenlarging its technical support for
production of clean hydrogen andammonia with CCS, and theconstruction of a value-chain.

Fossil fuelNatural gas/Coal

CO2 emission

Grayhydrogen/ammonia

CO2 injection
Top: A schematic image of CCS.
CO2 emitted by thermal power
plants, refineries, steel plants,
chemical plants, waste treatment
plants, etc., which are difficult totransform to carbon-free facilities,
are separated, captured, andstored in stable subsurface
reservoirs, so that the CO2volume emitted into the air canbe considerably reduced.
Right: A schematic image of
CO2-EOR, which JOGMEC has
been studying for a long time.
The recovery of hydrocarbon (oiland natural gas) is greatly
enhanced by injecting CO2 into an
oil and natural gas reservoir.

A foreign expert
course

CO2

Crude
oil
Reservoir

Top: A comparison of conventional‘gray’ hydrogen and ammonia fromnatural gas and clean ‘blue’ hydrogenand ammonia achieved with CCS
Right: A collaborative study inIndonesia on CCS/CCUS for ammonia
production is underway. Pictured isan ammonia plant of PT Panca Amara
Utama in Indonesia, which JOGMEC
studies under a MOU.

CO2

A geology andgeophysics course

TRC, aiming to be the coreof ‘human resources/
technology’ in Japaneseenergy/resource industry

X-ray CT scanner which
visualizes the behaviorof fluid including liquids
and gases in the groundCO2 capturestorage utilizationBluehydrogen/ammonia

ENERGY SECURITY

CCS

Maintain and expand stable energy supply
JOGMEC/TRC continues technological contribution to stable anddiversified supply by maintaining and increasing production at oil and gas fields while coping with social needs.

Exploration Technology
In its seismic reservoir monitoring, JOGMEC develops technologies
for both data acquisition and data imaging. In data acquisition,
JOGMEC develops a recording system combining an Accurately
Controlled Routinely Operated Signal
System (ACROSS) and fiber optic-based
distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). In
data imaging, JOGMEC has specialized
knowledge of full waveform inversion(FWI) analysis.

Drilling and
Production Technology
Drilling wells may encounter troubles such as stuck
pipes caused by wellbore collapse. JOGMEC isdeveloping a technology which allows it to foreseesuch drilling troubles from analyses of real-time
drilling data using artificial intelligence (AI).

Methane hydrate occurs widely in the seas of Japan and is expected
to become a domestic energy resource in our resource-poor
country. JOGMEC continues research and development activities
enabling future commercial production, including extracting
prospected concentrated zones
through ocean surveys around theseas of Japan, in order to develop
a production technology at along-term production test in
Alaska and evaluate
environmental impacts.

Carbon dioxide capture and storage,
CCS, is a technology to capture CO2
generated during the development ofenergy resources such as oil/natural
gas and the production ofhydrogen/ammonia, and stably store
it in deep underground geologicalformations for a long time. The
commercialization of a CCS projectrequires both ‘surface technology’
including facility construction, CO2
capture etc. and ‘subsurface
technology’ to evaluate reservoir
conditions and technically verify that
CO2 injected deep undergroundremains stably stored.
JOGMEC utilizes its expertise in
optimizing surface facilities
accumulated in demonstration tests
and its expertise in evaluating
subsurface formations built up overits 50 years’ history, and conducts
proof of concept and feasibility
studies in actual domestic/overseas
oil/gas fields, thus contributing to theestablishment of CCS technology.

A core sample acquired at the site for along-term production test in Alaska. The
sand layer contains methane hydrate.
Source: MH21-S R&D consortium

Environmental Protection
Technology

Rock mechanical testing
apparatus to evaluate rockdeformation character in TRC

Maintain and strengthen
human resources/technical capabilities
JOGMEC aims to continue to be a Japanese center for ‘human resources/technical capabilities’ .

JOGMEC promotes collaborative research on feasibility evaluation
to support a clean hydrogen and ammonia business.

JOGMEC promotes development and application ofdigital technology into resource development andcultivates human resources familiar with digital andE&P technologies. This is to reach the objective ofserving as a ‘center of knowledge for digital technology
in the resource development fields’ .

Reservoir Engineering Technology

EOR and well-stimulation
technology
Upper right: EOR, lower right:
hydraulic fracturing, upper left:
acidizing (dissolution of mineralveins), lower left: acidizing(formation of flow pass)

JOGMEC acquires key technologies and accumulates expertise though the opportunitiesof domestic/overseas demonstration tests to acquire strength in the CCS business field.

CCS Business

Clastic Rock determination by AI (left:
microscopic image, center: image
annotated by an expert (yellow:
sandstone, green: mudstone), right:
analytic image by AI)

JOGMEC has expertise in geomechanics forpredicting problems related to deformation andfailure of rock materials that may lead to collapses
of wells/perforation during drilling and production.
JOGMEC operates rock mechanical testing
apparatus to ascertain
rock mechanicalproperties that are
fundamental information
for geomechanicalstudies.

Challenge new businesses toward
a carbon neutral society

Methene Hydrate Development

Image of a stuck pipecaused by wellbore
collapse

Geomechanics Technology

Contribute to the implementation of CCS
projects by utilizing the existing knowledge

Digital Technology

Seismic reservoir monitoring using ACROSSJOGMEC endeavors to develop enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) technology
and well-stimulation technology to increase well productivity of oil andgas reservoirs. For example, JOGMEC has been developing CO2-EOR
technology, which increases productivity of oil reservoirs by injecting
CO2 and contributes to preventing global warming, hydraulic-fracturing
technology, which increases productivity through developing fracturesby injecting liquid into a reservoir, and acidizing technology, which
increases productivity by dissolving formation rocks. Well-stimulation
technology in particular is also anticipated to increase injectivity of CO2
in the CCS business.

CARBON NEUTRALITY

Environmental protection technology is required todecrease the environmental impacts of oil and gas
production. JOGMEC develops a technology toeliminate residual oil in produced water from oil fields
using ceramic membranes. In addition, it is developing
a technology for decreasing the volume of crude-oil
sludge in storage tanks, which is commonly treated asindustrial waste.

Domestic Exploration
The 3D seismic survey vessel ‘TANSA’ , owned by JOGMEC,
acquires high quality seismic data to assess hydrocarbon potential
in Japan’ s offshore waters. TANSA is equipped with dual-sensor(hydrophone & geophone) streamer cables and tows them at a
deeper depth (circa 20m), which enables surveying under marginal
water conditions.

Upper left: A sample ofproduced water
Upper right: A sample oftreated water
Right: A treating plant for
waste water

The resource development industry faces the serious issue
of a declining number of human resources. In addition,
mainstream areas for oil and gas development tend to belocated in areas difficult to develop such as deep-sea or Arctic
regions, and require sophisticated technologies. This is why
further sophisticated technologies are required to realize
carbon neutrality and energy security. JOGMEC has been
providing training courses for foreign experts to bolster its

The 3D seismic survey
vessel ‘TANSA’
towing a series oflong streamers

relationships with oil and gas producing countries, conducting
research and development activities to contribute to acquisitionof assets by Japanese companies, and providing basic data
to researchers involved in resource development in Japanesecompanies, thereby supporting Japanese resource development.
JOGMEC aims to contribute to resource security and carbon
neutrality through technical support in the areas of CCS andhydrogen/ammonia as well.

N2,etc..
Separating andCapturing

Injection

Power plant,
refinery, etc..

Transportation

CO2

Reservoir

CO2

Hydrogen and Ammonia BusinessHydrocarbon, including oil andnatural gas, is composed of carbon
and hydrogen molecules. Hydrogenand ammonia are produced fromhydrocarbon by a reforming process.
Hydrogen and ammonia are drawing
attention as future fuels that do notemit CO2 during power generation
etc. Such fuels are essential for
realizing carbon neutrality. JOGMEC
has been supporting feasibility
studies on the hydrogen andammonia business involving
Japanese companies across thevalue-chain, including CCS requiredfor clean fuel from hydrocarbon.
JOGMEC contributes to therealization of carbon neutrality byenlarging its technical support for
production of clean hydrogen andammonia with CCS, and theconstruction of a value-chain.

Fossil fuelNatural gas/Coal

CO2 emission

Grayhydrogen/ammonia

CO2 injection
Top: A schematic image of CCS.
CO2 emitted by thermal power
plants, refineries, steel plants,
chemical plants, waste treatment
plants, etc., which are difficult totransform to carbon-free facilities,
are separated, captured, andstored in stable subsurface
reservoirs, so that the CO2volume emitted into the air canbe considerably reduced.
Right: A schematic image of
CO2-EOR, which JOGMEC has
been studying for a long time.
The recovery of hydrocarbon (oiland natural gas) is greatly
enhanced by injecting CO2 into an
oil and natural gas reservoir.

A foreign expert
course

CO2

Crude
oil
Reservoir

Top: A comparison of conventional‘gray’ hydrogen and ammonia fromnatural gas and clean ‘blue’ hydrogenand ammonia achieved with CCS
Right: A collaborative study inIndonesia on CCS/CCUS for ammonia
production is underway. Pictured isan ammonia plant of PT Panca Amara
Utama in Indonesia, which JOGMEC
studies under a MOU.

CO2

A geology andgeophysics course

TRC, aiming to be the coreof ‘human resources/
technology’ in Japaneseenergy/resource industry

X-ray CT scanner which
visualizes the behaviorof fluid including liquids
and gases in the groundCO2 capturestorage utilizationBluehydrogen/ammonia

JOGMEC

Technology createsa prosperous future

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security

An independent administrative agency in Japan contributing to securing stable
and affordable supply of energy resources including oil, natural gas, coal andother fossil fuels, geothermal power, hydrogen and ammonia, offshore windTechnical
Business
Strategy

power, as well as metal resources including base and rare metals. Its mission is
to contribute to protecting the health of the Japanese people and preserving theirliving environment.

TRC

Technology & Research Center

The Technology & Research Center of JOGMEC for oil and natural gas development
promotes research and development activities on exploration and production,and develops human resources. It promotes Japanese technical ability in oil andnatural gas development as a central research body.

Technology & Research Center (TRC)

Contact

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)
1-2-2 Hamada, Mihama-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba 261-0025, Japan
Tel: +81-43-276-9212 E-mail: publication@jogmec.go.jp
2023.08