Saudi Aramco and JCCP held a symposium in Tokyo with broad themes raging from environmental load reduction measures tackling global warming and optimum employment of petroleum resources.
In the symposium, focusing on the importance of fuel for mobile vehicle with emphasis on mobile vehicle fuel and motor engines in the future, various presentations were made. Namely, governmental policy, fuel demand and supply, fuel technology, consumer demand transition, joint efforts by oil industry and automotive industry were presented.
The symposium was full of vivid exchange of views and information among the participants. In short, the power source of the automobile is diversified and development effort toward high-efficiency engine is more than ever important in the future. That means: it does not require a sophisticated technology for engine only, it also requires the oil industry to provide sophisticated fuel. Thus, the joint efforts of the oil industry and automotive industry have become increasingly important and the governmental policy to encourage the use environmentally friendly vehicles to the consumer.