JCCP activities in fiscal 2018 have been implemented as planned by receiving roughly the same amount of budget for government subsidized projects as last year, and they have achieved the quantitative targets that were initially set forth in the annual action plan.

Following on from last year, the standing basic business implementation policy to contribute to ensuring a stable oil supply was augmented by the policy to support the expansion of product exports and overseas business expansion with an eye to strengthening the competitiveness of Japan’s oil industry. Based on this policy, a new cooperation project was implemented for the Philippines and Mozambique as requested by Japanese companies. Also in line with the basic policy to cultivate LNG-related cooperation projects, a curriculum on LNG was

The HRD program conducted directly by JCCP consisted of a total of 21 regular courses in fiscal 2018. They included 5 courses related to strategic project management and marketing/physical distribution, 3 courses related to human resources and financial accounting, 2 courses related to the environment, new energies and energy conservation, 1 course on quality control, 3 courses on process and power generation technologies, 5 courses related to maintenance, and 2 courses on instrumentation control.

Customized courses have also been implemented in response to individual requests from Middle East oil producing countries, countries in Southeast Asia, and oil producing countries that are expected to become new sources of energy supply. In fiscal 2018, 5 such programs were held in Japan for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait,

The researcher exchange (invitation/dispatch) program promotes the exchange of researchers to and from Japan and oil/gas producing countries with the aim of cultivating researchers who can contribute to the development of advanced technologies that would benefit the oil downstream sector in the future.

Under the fiscal 2018 researcher dispatch program, a researcher each was dispatched to Saudi Arabia (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) and Kuwait (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research) for three months, just as last year. Under the researcher invitation program that is

Technical cooperation projects are implemented to help solve technical issues facing the oil downstream sector and other relevant sectors in oil/gas producing countries by transferring Japan’s technologies and expertise and developing technologies in cooperation with oil/gas producing countries.

In fiscal 2018, these projects were into the three stages mentioned below and implemented while verifying their relevance to their respective stages. In the project finding stages (basic survey), 9 projects were implemented in six countries; in the confirmation of project feasibility stage (feasibility study), 6 projects were launched in five countries; and in the joint projects with oil producing countries stage (joint projects), 18 projects were launched

The international cooperation program promotes and strengthens information sharing and personal relationships by holding international conferences and other such activities.

In January 2019, the 37th JCCP International Symposium was held under the theme of “New business opportunities in the oil and gas industry – Business innovation and value-adding growth –.” Thirteen panelists from oil/gas producing countries were invited to Tokyo and engaged in an active exchange of information with an audience of approximately 380 people. As a new initiative, it jointly held the Friendship Committee for Women’s Career Development (FCW), which has conventionally been held separately from the JCCP International Symposium. Sessions on women’s active participation, diversity and work-style reform were organized within the symposium, and these sessions were held as the 8th FCW meeting, with the participation of professional women and personnel management officers from the Gulf countries and Japan.

Thematic joint symposiums are organized at the request of a counterpart country or organization and are held jointly by the oil producing country or organization and JCCP, either in Japan or in the counterpart country. They are designed to widely disseminate Japan’s advanced technologies and research achievements both in Japan and abroad, and to promote information exchange with the counterpart country. As a result, they frequently lead to a new collaboration initiative between the counterpart country and Japan.

In April 2018, the Saudi Aramco-JCCP joint symposium on energy conservation and the environment was held at Saudi Aramco’s Leadership Center in Ras Tanura.

JCCP has overseas offices in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Each office is in charge of a group of Middle East countries. The Al-Khobar office is in charge of affairs in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain, and the Abu Dhabi office is in charge of affairs in UAE, Qatar, Oman and Iran.

founding with national oil companies and other such organizations in Middle East oil-producing countries through the implementation of human resource development programs, technical cooperation projects and international cooperation activities, the offices help Japanese companies expand their business in the oil downstream sector in Middle East oil producing countries.

They also work with Japanese companies that are planning to do business in the downstream sector in Middle East oil