Yasuhisa Kanehara
,Senior Vice President of Eurasia & Middle East Project Division,Inpex
Yasuhisa Kanehara heads up Japan’s oil and gas exploration firm Inpex in the Middle East. Last year it through its wholly-owned subsidiary Japan Oil Development Company Limited, it commenced oil production from Umm Lulu offshore oilfield in Abu Dhabi (which it holds a 12% stake in).
Inpex is jointly developing the project with ADNOC, BP and Total. Inpex said that it will utilise existing facilities of Umm Al Dalkh oilfield for production, located adjacent to the Umm Lulu oilfield, for production. In the first development phase, oil produced from the field will be transported via an existing subsea pipeline to Zirku Island, and eventually supplied to customers in Japan and other Asian countries.
