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VIII. Administrative Operation
VIII.1 Budget
Table 1: Budget of each fiscal year
(Total of Phase 2 budget is 63 billion yen, total of Phase 3 budget is 30.7 billion yen.)
BudgetPhaseFiscal(Billion yen)
Year22009
45
2010
45
2011
89
First methane hydrate offshore
production test (The first test)
2012
110(Feb 2012 - Aug 2015)
2013
87

32014
2015
2016
2017
2018

127
125
130
98
79

Second test
(May 2016‐June 2018）*Includes a research budget for Shallow Methane Hydrate Resources since fiscal 2013.
The sum does not necessarily match due to rounding.

VIII.2 Public Relations
VIII.2.1 Conference Presentations and Publications
Table 1: Conference presentations and publications in Phase 2 and 3 (as of January, 2019)
Number of cases

250219210

227
206

205

200
171147150
124

109
10071

71

705260

5051
4140
280

FY2009FY201022

FY2011FY2012FY2013

FY2014FY2015FY201629

FY2017FY2018Papwes publications

71

28

70

5260

4051

2229

41

Conference presentations

124210

205

219

227

206

171147

109

71

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VIII.2.2 Reinforcement of internal cooperation and PR(1)Meetings
1) Steering Committee Meeting
This consists of the project leader, two sub project leaders and seven committees. We held 24 meetings
during Phases 2 and 3.
2) Liaison Meeting
MH21 held monthly liaison meeting for project management.
3) Technical Liaison Meeting
MH21 held 22 technical liaison meetings from Phase 2 to Phase 3 where participants exchanged
technical information about different fields.
4) Three Working Groups
WG1 was organized to consider the reservoir characterization issues such as gaps
between simulation and production results.
WG2 looked at mechanical issues such as sand production, andWG3 looked at flow assurance issues such as gas water separation during production.
5) Launched New Team
Environmental Impact Assessment Team was set up in Administrative coordinationgroup in 2009.

(2)Dissemination of Research Results and Publicity
1) The data and samples provided to the mass media and education-related organizations
Data and samples such as photos, figures and so on have been provided in 680 cases to the mass
media and education-related organizations. (As of January 2019)

Table 2: Photographs provided to mass media and education-related organizations (as of January2019)
Fiscal Year
2009201020112012201320142015
2016
20172018
Total

Mass Media
172765593225
87114255

Education-Related
12911222426
149910146

Others※1428283333362730
3218279* Photographs provided to homepages of companies and organizations, company newsletters

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Total
4364
10411489874946
52
32680

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International Symposium on Methane Hydrate Resources from Mallik to the Nankai Trough washeld in 2010.

In order to disclose the achievements of the Research Consortium for Methane Hydrate
Resources in Japan to the public, public meetings reporting the accomplishments of the previous
fiscal year have been held eight times from fiscal 2011 to fiscal 2018.

3) MH21 Brochure
We produced a brochure of Japan’s Methane Hydrate R&D Program Phase 2 in fiscal
2014.
4) Videos
We produced videos about records of the first and second offshore production tests.
5) Website
MH21 runs a Japanese website from Phase 1 and updated it for Phase 2. In addition, we launched anEnglish website in October 2010. In Phase 2 and 3, a total of 2,700,000 hits have been recorded(Japanese site: 2,210,000, English site: 490,000), and “Inquiry Corner” had responded to 1,068
inquiries. (As of January, 2019)

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Table 3: Year-on-year numbers of access and inquiries to the MH21 website(As of January 2019)
300,000

300

250,000

250

200,000

200

150,000

150

100,000

10050,000

5000FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018Number of accesses to HP(JPN) 153,922 166,926 236,198 235,511 265,923 269,672 209,970 222,588 255,667 201,244
17,957 32,864 56,285 62,675 44,917 35,092 46,690 114,389 80,498
Number of accesses to HP(ENG)
Number of inquiries

2749152

246

239

127

58

73

61

36

VIII.2.3 Awards
MH21 or members of the organization received the following:Noguchi Memorial Award of The Japan Petroleum Institute in fiscal 2008

The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology, Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category) in fiscal 2010.

54th Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology Prize in fiscal 2010

Society Award (Academic Division) of the Japan Institute of Energy in fiscal 2010

VIII. 2.4 Patents
The number of patent inventions through Phase 1 to 3 is 24. And the number of patent registrations is 31,
includes Japan, U.S.A, Russia, China, Canada, England, India, Norway and Korea.

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