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A company engaged in the development and production of oil and natural gas, JX Nippon Oil Gas Exploration is opening up new avenues with its environmentallyfriendly business centered on carbon capture, utilization and storage.

"There's a strong need to reduce the carbon intensity of fossil fuel power generation - and CCS/CCUS technology is one of the major ways in which this can be achieved."

Toshiya Nakahara, President, JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation

Created in a 2010 merger between Nippon Oil Corporation and Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc., JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (NOEX) specializes in the development and production of oil and natural gas, currently operating more than 30 projects in nine countries worldwide. The Tokyo-based company, which has offices in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the U.S. and Vietnam, is part of ENEOS Group, Japan's largest energy, resources and materials conglomerate.

"Our main area of operations is Southeast Asia - chiefly Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as Papua New Guinea," says NOEX president, Toshiya Nakahara. NOEX's two core production sites are the Block 15-2 project in Vietnam, initially set up by company predecessor Mitsubishi Oil in 1992, and the Block SK10 project in Malaysia, established by Nippon Oil Exploration in 1987 and carried out in partnership with Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned oil and gas enterprise.