Academic Awards

JAPEX has established Research Center as an organization specifically for research and development (R&D) within the Technology Division, which is a company-wide cross-sectional technology division.

Research Center widely disseminates our R&D efforts and publishes some of the results of its work at conferences and lectures in the hope of further improving the technical capabilities of the organization and individuals.

The Awards section introduces the major awards that have been given to members of Research Center for their research and other achievements.

2020s

2022

• KASHIHARA Koji and NAGANO Yu: The 147th (2022 FALL) SEGJ CONFERENCE Best Presentation Award
  • Rock physics modeling on Indentation test data for seal layers of CCS

2021

• KURITA Hiroshi, KUROKAWA Shoki, and YOKOTA Satoru: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Paleoenvironmental controls on petroleum source rock formation in the syn-rift to early post-rift phase in the Miocene back-arc rift system of the northern Niigata and Yamagata areas
• OTANI Takeaki, YAMAMOTO Tetsuya, HATTORI Tatsuya and KAWASUMI Shogo：Japan Formation Evaluation Society Best Presentation Award
  • INTEGRATED MINERAL QUANTIFICATION TECHNIQUE FOR VOLCANIC RESERVOIRS

2010s

2018

• SASAYA Yuto, KUMANO Yusuke, and KUROSAWA Isao: Best Presentation Award of the 24th Formation Evaluation Symposium 2018
  
  • FRACTURE EXTENSION BEHAVIOR DOMINATED BY GEOLOGIC FEATURES OF PRE-EXISTING NATURAL FRACTURES AND STRESS BARRIERS - AN INTERPRETATION OF MICROSEISMICITY AT THE NORTH MONTNEY UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE GAS FIELD, BRITISH COLOMBIA
• TAKANO Osamu and TSUJI Takashi：JGS Best Paper Award
  
  • Fluvial to bay sequence stratigraphy and seismic facies of the Cretaceous to Paleogene successions in the MITI Sanriku-oki well and the vicinities, the Sanriku-oki forearc basin, northeast Japan (2017, Island Arc, 26, ias12184)

2014

• YOKOI Satoru, WASEDA Amane, and TSUJI Takashi: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Tight Oil Potential in Japan

2012

• TSUJI Takashi, WASEDA Amane, and YOKOI Satoru: AAPG Top 10 Poster Presentation Award
  • Conventional Traps in Unconventional Reservoir Rocks in Northern Japan

2011

• TAKANO Osamu, FUJII Tetsuya, SAEKI Tatsuo, SHIMODA Naoyuki, NOGUCHI Satoshi, NISHIMURA Mizue, TAKAYAMA Tokujiro, and TSUJI Takashi: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Application of sedimentological methodology to the methane-hydrate exploration project in the eastern Nankai Trough area

2000s

2007

• TAKAHASHI Akihisa, KASHIHARA Koji, MIZOHATA Shigeharu, SHIMADA Nobuhito, NAKAYAMA,Toru, KOSE Masami, and TORIGOE Takahiro: SEGJ Distinguished Paper Award
  • Construction of the three-dimensional oilsand reservoir geological model

2006

• TSUJI Takashi, MIYATA Yuichiro, OKADA Makoto, MITA Isao, NAKAGAWA Hiroshi, SATO Yuri, and NAKAMIZU Masaru: JGS Best Paper Award
  • High-resolution chronology of the lower Pleistocene Otadai and Umegase Formations of the Kazusa Group, Boso Peninsula, central Japan - Chronostratigraphy of the JNOC TR-3 cores based on oxygen isotope, magnetostratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil -

2005

• JOGMEC, JAPEX et. al.: JPI Noguchi Memorial Award
  • Development of natural gas reforming and FT synthesis utilizing carbon dioxide
• TEZUKA Kazuhiko and TAMAGAWA Tetsuya: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Feasibility of fracture delineation by Acoustic Emission in oil/gas reservoir

2004

• KANEDA Kokoro, YAMADA Yasuhiro, MATSUOKA Toshifumi, and BABA Kei: JGS Presentation Award
  • Analogue Modeling of Nankai Accretionary Prism - Analysis of Experimental Results by PIV method -
• TAKANO Osamu, MORIYA Shigehiro, NISHIMURA, Mizue, AKIBA Fumio, ABE Masanori, and YANAGIMOTO Yutaka: JGS Best Paper Award
  • Sequence stratigraphy and characteristics of depositional systems of the Upper Miocene to Lower Pleistocene in the Kitakambara Area, Niigata Basin, central Japan

2003

• TEZUKA Kazuhiko, OHSAKI Yutaka, MIYAIRI Makoto, and TAKAHASHI Yoshinobu: GRC Best Paper Award
  • High Temperature (400℃) Fluid-Density Logging Tool and Application in Resolving an Unstable Production Mechanism of the Well in Uenotai Geothermal Field in Japan
• WASEDA Amane, IWANO Hirotsugu, and TAKEDA Nobuyori: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Geochemical study on origin and maturity of natural gases

2000

• YAMADA Yasuhiro: AAPG International Conference Best Poster Award
  • Sand-box experiment on listric fault inversion with displacement difference
• JAPEX Research Center: CSSJ Technology Award
  • Development of the utilizing technology of clay geology on petroleum exploration
• TAKEDA Nobuyori: Organic Geochemistry Award (Academic)
  • Study on petroleum generation by source rock compaction pyrolysis experiment
• AKIBA Fumio: JGS Best Paper Award
  • Improving accuracy of Neogene diatom biochronology for the northwest Pacific

1990s

1998

• TEZUKA Kazuhiko: SPWLA JAPAN Chapter Symposium Best Paper Award
  • Integrated Interpretation of Microseismic Clustersand Fracture System in Hijiori HDR Reservoir
• KURITA Hiroshi and OBUSE Akiko: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Tertiary-Upper Cretaceous palynostratigraphy of the　MITI Tempoku borehole, northern central Hokkaido

1996

• TEZUKA Kazuhiko: SPWLA JAPAN Chapter Symposium Best Paper Award
  • Fast Stoneley modeling and its application for permeable fracture evaluation
• YAMAMURA Masami: The Japan Petroleum Institute Award for Distinguished Papers
  • Study on the catalyst for producing liquid fuel from methane via ethylene

1995

• MIYAIRI Makoto and KASHIHARA Koji: SPWLA JAPAN Chapter Symposium Best Poster Award
  • Study on directional induction layer detection method
• TSUJI Takashi and YOKOI Satoru: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Hydrocarbon trap in the Neogene siliceous rocks in northern Hokkaido, Japan

1993

• JAPEX Yufutsu research group (TAKANO Osamu, KUNIYASU Minoru et. al.):JGS Koto Award
  • Cretaceous granitoids from the well at the eastern area of Tomakomai, Hokkaido

1991

• IBUSUKI Atsushi, KUNIYASU Minoru, and KODAMA Kisaburo: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Basin Evaluation for the Field with Fractured Reservoirs

1980s

1989

• TSUJI Takashi: JGS Award
  • Fluidization and liquefaction of sand beds

1988

• KUNIYASU Minoru, MIZUOCHI Yukihiro, and MARUYAMA Yuichi: ISPRS Best Poster Award
  • New Analytical Method of Geological Lineament using LANDSAT Image.
• MIYAZAKI Hiroshi, KUDE Tadashi, AKIBA Fumio, FUKASAWA Hikaru, and ASANO Kiyotsugu: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Geology of Iwafune-oki Oil Field -A Preliminary study of the Distribution of the Sandstone Reservoirs-

1984

• JAPEX Research Center: The Japan Petroleum Institute Award
  • Study on microfossil stratigraphy and its application to petroleum exploration
• AOYAGI Koichi: AAPG Award
  • Study on sedimentary rock diagenesis

1982

• FUJIOKA Nobuyoshi, OHGUCHI Takeshi, MAIYA Seijuro, USUDA Masaru, and BABA, Kei: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • On the Sediments of Daijima-Nishikurosawan Age in the Northeast　Inner Japan Area

1970s

1979

• OMOKAWA Mamoru and ASAKAWA Tadashi: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Geochemical Characterization of Oils in Yabase Oil Field and its Geological Significance

1978

• KUDOH Shuji: JAPT Distinguished Contribution Award
  • Contribution to petroleum earth chemistry

1977

• HIRATSUKA Ryuji: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Geochemical Considerations on Generation and Evolution of Petroleum Oil

1976

• ASAKAWA Tadashi: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Relationships between Normal Alkanes and Maturation of Petroleum of Oilfields in Japan

1975

• AOYAGI Koichi: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Sedimentary Petrological Evaluation on Petroleum Reservoir Rocks and Some Examples of this Method

1971

• IWAMOTO H., YOSHIDA Y., KOMURA S., and SAKAMOTO T.: JAPT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Studies on the Oil Geology of the Ishikari Coal-Fields, Hokkaido, Japan