Publications

This page introduces Papers, Presentations, Publications regarding projects and R&D that our staff involved.

We keep on making efforts that lead to develop the technology and to contribute to the society.

*New updates are in bold.

Year Author
(* is added to JOE colleagues)		 Title Reference
2024 Wuquan Li
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Takeshi Tsuji
Jinrong Cao
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Evaluation of CO2 Storage and Enhanced Gas Recovery Potential in Shale Gas Reservoirs Using Molecular Scale Simulations 2024 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Tokyo, P38
2024 Wuquan Li
Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Takeshi Tsuji
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Molecular simulation of methane/ethane adsorption behavior in shale nanopore systems
with micropores and mesopores		 Fuel, Volume 358, Part B, 15 February 2024, 130294
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.130294
2024 Wuquan Li
Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Takeshi Tsuji
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Evaluation of CO2 storage and enhanced gas recovery potential in gas shale using kerogen nanopore systems with mesopores and micropores Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 486, 15 April 2024, 150225
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.150225
2023 Wuquan Li
Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Takeshi Tsuji
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Molecula-Scale Study no Competitive Adsorption of CO2 and CH4 in Kerogen Nanopore Systems: Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in Shale Gas Reserviors AGU, 2023 Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA & Online Everywhere
2023 Masatoshi Kaneko*
Yusuke Shimotoku*
Yukihiro Matsumoto*
Isao Shiozaki
Ayaka Abe 		Thermal recovery simulation and evaluation of cIosed-loop geothermaI systems 2023 Annual Meeting Geothermal Research Society of Japan, Juroku Plaza, Gifu, Japan
2023 Satoshi Ohtsuki
Hisanao Ouchi*
Machiko Tamaki*
Koya Akamine*
Yutaro Arima
Motoyoshi Naiki* 		3-D Numerical Flow Simulation Studies of Gas Production from Gas Hydrate Reservoirs at Kuparuk State 7-11-12 pad in the Prudhoe Bay Unit on the Alaska North Slope The 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
2023 Timothy Collett
Ray Boswell
Kuldeep Shukla
Peter Flemings
Machiko Tamaki* 		Characterization of deepwater marine depositional systems associated with highly concentrated gas hydrate accumulations in coarse-grained reservoirs The 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
2023 Seth Haines
Craig Markey
Timothy Collett
Cullen Young
Jeff Shragge
Naoyuki Shimoda
Akira Fujimoto
Machiko Tamaki*
Ray Boswell
Norihiro Okinaka 		Gas hydrate saturation estimates at the Alaska Gas Hydrate Production Test Site using seismic amplitude analysis of distributed acoustic sensor vertical seismic profile data The 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
2023 Yuichi Nakanishi
Masanori Kurihara
Ri Shingi
Norio Temma
Koya Akamine*
Akira Takiguchi 		Investigation on parallelization and GPU utilization method for geomechanical simulator towards speeding up prediction of methane hydrate dissociation and production performances The 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
2023 Machiko Tamaki*
Misuzu Taninaka*
Satoshi Ohtsuki
ThanTin Aung
Naoyuki Shimoda
Ray Boswell
Timothy S. Collett 		Reservoir Characterization and 3-D Geological Modeling for the Numerical Flow Simulation Studies of Gas Hydrate Reservoirs at Kuparuk State 7-11-12 Pad in the Prudhoe Bay Unit on the Alaska North Slope The 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
2023 Wuquan Li
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Takeshi Tsuji
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Molecular simulation and equation of state modeling of the adsorption and phase behaviors in shale nanopore systems 2023 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Akita, P55
2023 Keita Yoshioka
Masafumi Katou
Kohei Tamura*
Yutaro Arima
Yoshiharu Ito
Youqing Chen
Tsuyoshi Ishida 		Interactions of Hydraulic Fractures With Grain Boundary Discontinuities in the Near Wellbore Region JGR Solid Earth, Volume 128, Issue 3, March 2023, e2022JB024509,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024509
2022 Koji Yamamoto
Yutaro Arima
Satoshi Otsuki
Kazuaki Mikami
Hisanao Ouchi*
Chihiro Nakajima*
Koya Akamine*
Yusuke Shimotoku*
Machiko Tamaki*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Mika Takekoshi
Soma Watahiki
Atsuki Oba 		Gas production from methane hydrates and application of data assimilation technique The International EnKF Workshop 2022
2022 Machiko Tamaki*
Akira Fujimoto
Timothy S. Collett
Ray Boswell 		Geological reservoir characterization of a gas hydrate prospect associated with the Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope Energy & Fuels, 36(15), 8128–8149.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c00336
2022 Ray Boswell
Koji Yamamoto
Machiko Tamaki*
Timothy S. Collett
George Moridis
Evgeniy Myshakin 		New Insights into the Occurrence and Implications of Mobile Water in Gas Hydrate Systems Energy & Fuels, 36(5), 2447–2461.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c04101
2022 Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Satoshi Ohtsuki
Yoshiharu Ito
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Phase Behavior of Methane/n-Butane Binary Mixtures in Organic Nanopores under Bulk Vapor Conditions Energy Fuels 2022, 36, 24, 14748–14759
Publication Date: November 30, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03024
2022 Ray Boswell
Timothy S. Collett
Koji Yamamoto
Norihiro Okinaka
Robert Hunter
Kiyofumi Suzuki
Machiko Tamaki*
Jun Yoneda
David Itter
Seth S. Haines
Evgeniy Myshakin
George Moridis 		Scientific Results of the Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well Program, Western Prudhoe Bay Unit, Alaska North Slope Energy & Fuels, 36(10), 5167–5184.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c00327
2022 Chihiro Nakajima*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Machiko Tamaki*
Koya Akamine*
Mizuki Sato
Satoshi Ohtuski
Motoyoshi Naiki* 		Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for Natural Gas Hydrate Production Tests in Alaska Energy Fuels 2022 36 14, 7434-7455
Publication date: July 6, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c00335
2022 YOSHIOKA Keita
KATOU Masafumi
TAMURA Kohei*
ARIMA Yutaro
ITO Yoshiharu
Chen Youquing
ISHIDA Tsuyoshi 		Hydraulic fracture interactions with mineral grains European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria & Online
2022 Yunfeng Liang
Shoto Tanaka
Jinrong Cao
Yoshihiro Masuda
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Satoshi Ohtsuki
Yoshiharu Ito
Daisuke Kuramoto
Toshifumi Matsuoka 		Molecular Simulation of Binary Gas Mixture Adsorption in Shale Organic Nanopores 2022 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Tokyo, P28
2022 Tomoaki Ishiwata
Kohei Tamura*
Tetsuya Tamagawa
Ryo Ueda
Takashi Tsuji 		Numerical simulation on the optimization of acidizing for Onnagawa tight oil formation 2022 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Tokyo, P29 (in Japanese)
2022 Kimio Watanabe
Norihiro Watanabe
Noriaki Watanabe
Kiyotoshi Sakaguchi
Masaatsu Aichi
Hisanao Ouchi*
Hiroshi Asanuma 		A numerical study on the creation of artificial super critical geothermal reservoirs by hydraulic fracturing Geothermics,
Volume 105,2022,
102500,ISSN 0375-6505,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102500.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037565052200147X)
2021 Machiko Tamaki* Integrated 3D geological modeling of methane hydrate reservoir The 26th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan (JFES), Invited talk.
2021 Keita Yoshioka
Masafumi Katou
Kohei Tamura*
Yutaro Arima
Yoshiharu Ito
Youquing Chen
Tusyoshi Ishida 		Hydraulic fracture complexity with mineral grains American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2021 Fall Meeting, San Francisco
2021 Shoto Tanaka
Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Toshifumi Matsuoka
Kohei Tamura*
Tomoaki Ishiwata
Satoshi Ohtsuki
Yoshiharu Ito 		Molecular Simulation on Adsorption Behavior of Two- Component Mixed Gas in Shale Organic Nanopores American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2021 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA & Online Everywhere
2021 Hisanao Ouchi*
Koji Yamamoto
Koya Akamine*
Satoshi Kano*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Machiko Tamaki*
Satoshi Ohtsuki
Takayuki Kanno
Norio Temma 		Numerical History-Matching of Modeling and Actual Gas Production Behavior and Causes of the Discrepancy of the Nankai Trough Gas-Hydrate Production Test Cases Energy & Fuels, 36(1), 210-226.
2021 Koji Yamamoto
Takayuki Kanno
Hisanao Ouchi*
Koya Akamine*
Satoshi Kano*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Machiko Tamaki*
Satoshi Ohtsuki
Norio Temma 		Comparison of the Vertical Gas-Hydrate Production Profile with the Simulation Results Obtained Using Geophysical Log-Based Reservoir Characteristics and Reasons for Their Discrepancies in the Nankai Trough Energy & Fuels, 35(24), 20026-20036.
2021 Makoto Fuyumuro Application of CO2EOR and Development of CCS for Converting Fossil Fuel to "Blue" Energy CMC Research Seminar
2021 Makoto Fuyumuro The Trends and Developments for CCUS (CCS/CO2EOR) after CO2 Recovery Seminar of CO2 Removal or Recovery, and Trend of Bussiness/Development/Application
2021 Cao, J.
Liang, Y.
Masuda, Y.
Tamura, K.*
Tanaka, H.
Ishiwata, T.
Ito, Y.
Matsuoka, T.		 Adsorption, selectivity, and phase behavior in organic nanopores for shale gas and oil development Petroleum Research,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptlrs.2021.03.002
2021 Cao, J.
Liang, Y.
Masuda, Y.
Tamura, K.*
Ishiwata, T.
Ohtsuki, S.
Ito, Y.
Matsuoka, T.		 Molecular Simulation on Phase Behavior in Organic Nanopores of Shale Resources 2021 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), WEB, June 16-29, 77.
2021 Tanaka, S.
Cao, J.
Liang, Y.
Masuda, Y.
Tamura, K.*
Ishiwata, T.
Ohtsuki, S.
Ito, Y.
Matsuoka, T.		 Molecular Simulation of Methane/Ethane Mixture Adsorption in Shale Nanopore 2021 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), WEB, June 16-29, 78. (in Japanese)
2021 Yoshihiro Konno
Tetsuya Fujii
Akihiko Sato*
Koya Akamine*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Yoshihiro Masuda
Koji Yamamoto
Jiro Nagao		 Influence of Flow Properties on Gas Productivity in Gas-Hydrate Reservoirs: What Can We Learn from Offshore Production Tests? Energy & Fuels, 2021, 35 (10), pp 8733–8741
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c00510
2020 Amit Katiyar
Shivam Agrawal
Hisanao Ouchi*
Pablo Seleson
John Foster
Mukul Sharma 		A general peridynamics model for multiphase transport of non-Newtonian compressible fluids in porous media Journal of Computational Physics, 402, 109075.
2019 Atsuko Ikeda
Ichiro Watanabe		 HSE Management in the Field of Geothermal Development Project Journal of the Geothermal Energy Research & Development Co., Ltd., November 2019 (No.95)
2019 Yamamoto, K.
Wang, X.X.
Tamaki, M.*
Suzuki, K.		 The second offshore production of methane hydrate in the Nankai Trough and gas production behavior from a heterogeneous methane hydrate reservoir RSC Advances, 9, 25987-26013, (Open access)
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2019/RA/C9RA00755E
2019 Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Hiroaki Koga
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Kohei Tamura*
Sunao Takagi
Toshifumi Matsuoka		 Molecular Simulation of CH4 Adsorption Behavior in Slit Nanopores: Verification of Simulation Methods and Models AIChE Journal, e16733;
https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.16733
2019 Kohei Tamura*
Isao Kurosawa
Makoto Naoi
Youqing Chen
Hironori Kawakata
Tsuyoshi Ishida		 Comparison between visualized hydraulic fractures and seismic event hypocenters 53rd US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, 2019 HFC Workshop, Efficient Energy: Observations, Monitoring, & Diagnostics
2019 Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Kohei Tamura*
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Sunao Takagi		 Estimation of Methane Adsorption Capacity of Kerogen in Shale by Molecular Simulation 2019 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Tokyo, (in Japanese)
2019 Misuzu Taninaka*
Kei Baba		 Geological Interpretation of Geophysical Survey and Basin Evaluation Project in Nishitsugaru Basin 2019 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Tokyo, (in Japanese)
2019 Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Toshifumi Matsuoka
Kohei Tamura*
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Sunao Takagi		 Molecular Simulation of Methane and Methane/Ethane Mixture Adsorption Behavior in Kerogen Nanopores PetroPhase2019 The 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling
2019 Tetsuo Iwasaki Project Management Initiatives for Energy Infrastructure Development Kaigai-Touyushi (Foreign Investment and Finance), May 2019
2019 Makoto Fuyumuro Technological Innovation Trends and Future Market Forecasts in Offshore Crude Oil Production Systems and FPSO Facilities Seminar on FPSO/FLNG/CPF Facilities & Technology and Recent Trends
2019 Tetsuo Iwasaki Outline of FPSO Facilities and Related Technologies and Trends for Offshore Production Facilities Seminar on FPSO/FLNG/CPF Facilities & Technology and Recent Trends
2019 Yuhei Komatsu*
Akira Fujimoto		 3D seismic geomorphology of dendritic paleo-drainage systems in submarine platform, southwestern off Okinawa Island, and its significance 2019 annual meeting of the Sedimentological Society of Japan, Osaka, (in Japanese)
2019 Jinrong Cao
Yunfeng Liang
Yoshihiro Masuda
Hiroaki Koga
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Kohei Tamura*
Sunao Takagi
Toshifumi Matsuoka		 Molecular Simulation of Methane Adsorption Behavior in Kerogen Nanopores for Shale Gas Resource Assessment International Petroleum Technology Conference, 2019, Beijing, China
2018 Tamaki, M.*
Fujii, T.
Suzuki, K.
Yamamoto, K.		 3D Geocellular Modeling of Heterogeneous Gas Hydrate bearing Sediments at the 2nd Offshore Gas Production Test Site in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2018 Suzuki, K.
Than Thin Aung
Fujii, T.
Tanaka, M.
Tamaki, M.*
Komatsu, Y.*
Fujimoto, A.		 Lithological features analyzed by Pressure Core and Wireline Logging Data of the 2nd Offshore Gas Production Test Site, NE-Nankai Trough, Japan American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2018 Kohei Tamura*
Yoshiharu Ito
Yutaro Arima
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Sunao Takagi
Mukul Sharma
Shivam Agrawal
Tsuyoshi Ishida
Youqing Chen
Makoto Naoi		 An Introduction of recent JOGMEC’s researches on hydraulic fracturing The Mining and Material Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ) Autumn Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan
2018 Shivam Agrawal
Hisanao Ouchi*
Murtadha J. Altammar
Mukul Sharma		 Mechanistic Explanation of the Impact of Pore Pressure on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation 52nd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium
2018 Kohei Tamura*
Sunao Takagi
Yoshiharu Ito
Yutaro Arima
Mukul Sharma
Shivam Agrawal
Tsuyoshi Ishida
Youqing Chen		 Study on reproducing observed hydraulic fractures with peridynamics-based hydraulic fracturing simulator 2018 Spring Meeting of The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology (JAPT), Niigata, (in Japanese)
2017 Tamaki M.*
Fujii, T.
Suzuki, K.		 Characterization and Prediction of the Gas Hydrate Reservoir at the Second Offshore Gas Production Test Site in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan Energies 2017, 10(10), 1678;
https://doi.org/10.3390/en10101678
2017 Tamaki M.*
Fujii, T.
Suzuki, K.
Takayama, T.		 Integrated reservoir characterization and 3D geological modeling for the gas hydrate potential evaluation at the 2nd offshore production test site in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan International Conference on Gas Hydrate (ICGH9), 2017, Denver, Colorado USA
2017 Fujii, T.
Suzuki, K.
Tamaki, M.*
Takayama, T.
Suzuki, S.		 The Selection of the Candidate Location for the Second Offshore Methane Hydrate Production Test and Geological Findings from the Pre-Drilling Operation, in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan International Conference on Gas Hydrate (ICGH9), 2017, Denver, Colorado USA
2017 Suzuki, K.
Takayama, T.
Tamaki, M.*
Fujii, T.		 Lithological Interpretation for Constructing the Geological Model Around Wells for the 2nd Offshore Gas-Production Test from Gas Hydrate on the Daini-Atsumi Knoll in Eastern Nankai Trough Area International Conference on Gas Hydrate (ICGH9), 2017, Denver, Colorado USA
2017 Hisanao Ouchi*
Amit Katiyar
John T. Foster
Mukul M. Sharma 		A Peridynamics Model for the Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs SPE Journal, SPE-173361-PA
2017 Hisanao Ouchi*
John T. Foster
Mukul M. Sharma 		Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on the Vertical Migration of Hydraulic Fractures Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Volume 151, March 2017, Pages 384-408
2017 Hisanao Ouchi*
Shivam Agrawal
John T. Foster
Mukul M. Sharma 		Effect of Small Scale Heterogeneity on the Growth of Hydraulic Fractures SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition, SPE-184873-MS
2017 Yamamoto, K.
Kanno, T.
Wang, X.X.
Tamaki, M.*
Fujii, T.
Chee, S.S.
Wang, X.W.
Pimenov, V.
Shako V. 		Thermal responses of a gas hydrate-bearing sediment to a depressurization operation

* This paper was awarded in 6 magazines published by Royal Society of Chemistry as the top 5% of highly cited authors in 2019. https://www.mh21japan.gr.jp/news_190.html
(in Japanese) 		RSC Advances, 7(10), 5554-5577, (Open access)
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/RA/C6RA26487E
2017 Yoshihiro Konno
Tetsuya Fujii
Akihiko Sato*
Koya Akamine*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Yoshihiro Masuda
Koji Yamamoto
Jiro Nagao 		Key Findings of the World’s First Offshore Methane Hydrate Production Test off the Coast of Japan: Toward Future Commercial Production

* This article was awarded as "the Top 25 most cited articles in 2017" by the journal of Energy & Fuels published by the American Chemical Society.
https://www.mh21japan.gr.jp/news_146.html
(in Japanese) 		Energy & Fuels, 2017, 31 (3), pp 2607-2616
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b03143
2017 Yuhei Komatsu*
Ajay Limaye
Kiyofumi Suzuki
Chris Paola 		Building training image using experimental braided submarine channels 2017 annual meeting of the Sedimentological Society of Japan, Matsumoto, (in Japanese)
2016 Yuko Kawata*
Hiroyuki Azuma
Masato Takagi
Some Approaches for Optimizing CO2 Storage System with Water Production in a Heterogeneous Reservoir Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm 13th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-13, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 Yuko Kawata*
Hiroyuki Azuma
Masato Takagi 		Applying Response Surface Methodology to Design CO2 Storage System with Water Production Considering Efficient Pump Energy Use 13th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-13, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 Tamaki, M.*
Fujii, T.
Suzuki, K.
Takayama, T.		 Integrated reservoir characterization for the gas hydrate-bearing sediments around the 2nd offshore production test site in the eastern Nankai Trough American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco
2016 Yamamoto, K.
Tamaki, M.*
Fujii, T.
Kanno, T.
Wang, X.X.
Chee, S.S.
Pimenov, V.
Shako V.
Wang, X.W. 		Temperature monitoring and their analysis of the methane hydrate first offshore production test in the eastern Nankai Trough American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco
2016 K. Akamine*
M. Naiki*
K. Funatsu*
N. Tenma
J. Nagao 		Methane hydrate production system in combination with pressure conduction wells The 8th Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-8 2016), (in Japanese)
2016 Yuhei Komatsu*
Takashi Kotera
Tetsuya Fujii 		Gas Hydrate trapping system of fine-grained sediment wave deposits in Toyama Trough, Japan Fiery Ice 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii
2016 Yuhei Komatsu*
Toshiaki Kobayashi
Tetsuya Fujii 		Seismic signature of gas hydrate bearing sediments on the Shikoku-oki forearc zone, Japan American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco
2016 Tamaki M.*
Suzuki K.
Fujii T.
Sato A.* 		Prediction and validation of gas hydrate saturation distribution in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan: Geostatistical approach integrating well log and 3D seismic data Interpretation, 4(1), SA83-SA94.
2016 Yoshihiro Konno
Yoshihiro Masuda
Koya Akamine*
Motoyoshi Naiki*
Jiro Nagao 		Sustainable gas production from methane hydrate reservoirs by the cyclic depressurization method Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 108, 439-445
2015 K. Akamine*
M. Naiki*
K. Funatsu*
N. Tenma
J. Nagao 		Methane hydrate production system with deep formation water dumping Proceedings of 7th Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-7 2015), (in Japanese)
2015 Hisanao Ouchi*
Amit Katiyar
John T. Foster
Mukul M. Sharma 		A peridynamics Model for the Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures in Heterogeneous, Naturally Fractured Reservoirs SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, SPE173361-MS
2015 Hisanao Ouchi*
Amit Katiyar
Jason York
John T. Foster
Mukul M. Sharma 		A fully coupled porous flow and geomechanis model for fluid driven cracks: a peridynamics approach Computational Mechanics, 55, 561-567
2015 Tamaki M.*
Suzuki K.
Fujii T. 		Paleocurrent analysis of Pleistocene turbidite sediments in the forearc basin inferred from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and paleomagnetic data at the gas hydrate production test site in the eastern Nankai Trough Marine Petroleum Geology, Vol 66, Part2, 404-417
2014 Itoh Y.
Takano O.
Kusumoto S.
Tamaki M.* 		Mechanism of long-standing Cenozoic basin formation in central Hokkaido: an integrated basin study on an oblique convergent margin Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (Open Access Journal) http://www.progearthplanetsci.com/content/1/1/6
2014 Itoh Y.
Takano O.
Tamaki M.* 		Quantitative analysis of pore network in rocks utilizing ferrofluids : Application of rock magnetic data for oil exploration JAPT, Vol.79, P339-348, (abstract in English)
2014 Tamaki M.*
Suzuki K.
Fujii T.
Sato A.* 		Integrated Reservoir Characterization and the 3D Geo-cellular Modeling for MH-bearing Sediments around the 1st Offshore Production Test in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan Fiery Ice 2014, Hyderabad, India (ID No. 24)
2014 Tamaki M.*
Suzuki K.
Fujii T.
Sato A.* 		Reservoir Characterization and geological modeling for methane hydrate-bearing sediments around the 1st Offshore Product Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, M-IS22
2014 Tamaki M.*
Suzuki K.
Egawa K. 		Paleomagnetic study of the turbidite sediments around the Daini Atsumi Knoll Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, SEM37-P04, (abstract in English)
2014 Yuko Kawata*
Ziqiu Xue
Saeko Mito
Takahiro Nakajima 		A History Matching Study of Nagaoka Site for Geochemical Model Calibration in Reactive Transport Model: Using Concentration Changes of Chemical Species from Post-Injection Water Sampling Data 12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-12), Austin., U.S.
2014 Iizuka, Ryo
Ikeda, Shuichiro
Iino, Atsushi
Funatsu, Kunihiro*
Akamine, Koya*
Nakajima, Chihiro* 		Adaptive Local-Global Multiphase Upscaling for Improved Coarse-Grid Modelling of Condensate Banking Phenomena SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, 14-16 October, Adelaide, Australia, SPE 171459
2014 Katiyar, A.
Foster, J. T.
Ouchi, H.*
Sharma, M. M. 		A peridynamic formulation of pressure driven convective fluid transport in porous media. Journal of Computational Physics, 261, 209-229.
2014 K. Akamine*
M. Naiki*
H. Narita
J. Nagao 		The analysis of production behavior and productivity of methane hydrate reservoirs with different types of wells Proceedings of 6th Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-6 2014), (in Japanese)
2014 Makoto Fuyumuro Produced Water Treatment System on Oil and Gas Industry including Shale Oil & Gas Chemical Research Center
2013 K. Akamine*
M. Naiki*
K. Funatsu*
H. Narita
J. Nagao 		The effect of Seal Formation on Gas Production from MH Bearing Zone Proceedings of 5th Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-5 2013), (in Japanese)
2013 Masanori Kaneko*
Kohei Tamura* 		Chapter 5, Section 1.4 Reservoir fluid property, 528-536 JAPT, Petroleum Technology Handbook 2013, (in Japanese)
2013 Yuko Kawata*
Ziqiu Xue
Saeko Mito 		Reactive transport modelling of mineral trapping of CO2, revised by water sampling data at Nagaoka CO2 storage site Goldschmid 2013 Fiorence Italy
2013 Itoh Y.
Tamaki M.*
Takano O. 		Rock Magnetic Properties of Sedimentary Rocks in Central Hokkaido - Insights into Sedimentary and Tectonic Processes on an Active Margin Multidisciplinary Approach on Active Plate Margins, 233-253
2013 Kusumoto S.
Itoh Y.
Tamaki M.* 		Numerical Modeling of Sedimentary Basin Formation at the Termination of Lateral Faults in a Tectonic Region where Fault Propagation has Occurred Multidisciplinary Approach on Active Plate Margins, 273-304
2013 Makoto Fuyumuro Resent Activity of CCS in Oil/Gas Industry International Clime Change Conference, Teheran
2012 K. Akamine*
H. Ouchi*
M. Naiki*
Y. Masuda
H. Narita
J. Nagao 		Upgrading of Methane Hydrate Simulator (MH21-HYDRES) Proceedings of 4th Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-4 2012), (in Japanese)
2012 Tamaki M.*
Komatsu Y.*
Suzuki K.
Takayama T.
Fujii T. 		Geological Modeling for Methane Hydrate Reservoir Characterization in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Offshore Japan American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, O43B-1816
2012 Aung T. T
Noguchi S.
Oikawa N.
Kanno T.
Tamaki M.*
Akihisa K. 		Integrated Facies Modeling Workflow for Methane Hydrate Reservoir along the eastern Nankai Trough International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Bangkok, Thailand (IPTC 15303)
2012 Machiko Tamaki *
Toshiko Furukawa 		Evolution of the Quaternary Sedimentary Basins in the Tokai Offshore Area Geological Society of Japan, Osaka, 2012, T2-P-2, (in Japanese)
2011 Makoto Fuyumuro Overview of Applied Technologies for Impurity Gas-Handling SPE ATW: Challenges in Conventional & Unconventinal Gas Development, Sapporo Session 9: Impurity-Gas Handling
2011 K. Akamine*
H. Ouchi*
M. Naiki*
Y. Masuda
H. Narita
J. Nagao 		Development and Improvement of Methane Hydrate Production Simulator Proceedings of 3rd Comprehensive Symposium on Methane Hydrate (CSMH-3 2011), (in Japanese)
2011 Masanori Kurihara*
Akihiko Sato*
Kunihiro Funatsu*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Yoshihiro Masuda
Hideo Narita
Timothy S. Collett 		Analysis of formation pressure test results in the Mount Elbert methane hydrate reservoir through numerical simulation Marine and Petroleum Geology,Vol 28, Issue 2, Feb 2011, pp 502-516
2011 Tamaki M.*
Noguchi S.
Furukawa T. 		Mechanical Interpretation of Fault Distribution Within and Around the Methane Hydrate Concentrated Zone, Eastern Nankai Trough, Japan International Conference Gas Hydrate (ICGH), Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 Makoto Fuyumuro Separation Technologies for Oil and Gas Industry SSPEJ
2010 OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori*
SATO Akihiko*
MASUDA Yoshihiro
NARITA Hideo
EBINUMA Takao
SAEKI Tatsuo
FUJII Tetsuya
KOBAYASHI Toshiaki
SHIMODA Naoyuki 		Construction of 3 dimensional methane hydrate reservoir model in Eastern Nankai Trough and prediction of production test performance JAPT, Vol.75 No.1 P72-83, (abstract in English)
2010 Yoshihiro Konno
Yoshihiro Masuda
Yosuke Hariguchi
Masanori Kurihara*
Hisanao Ouchi* 		Key Factors for Depressurization-Induced Gas Production from Oceanic Methane Hydrates Energy Fuels 24, 1736-1744
2010 Masanori Kurihara*
Akihiko Sato*
Kunihiro Funatsu*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Koji Yamamoto
Masaaki Numasawa
Takao Ebinuma
Hideo Narita
Yoshihiro Masuda
Scott R. Dallimore
Fred Wright
Douglas Ian Ashford 		Analysis of Production Data for 2007/2008 Mallik Gas Hydrate Production Tests in Canada SPE International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China, 8-10 June, Beijing, China, SPE 132155
2010 Tamaki M.*
Kusumoto S.
Itoh Y. 		Formation and deformation process of the late Paleogene sedimentary basins in the southern central Hokkaido, Japan: paleomagnetic and numerical modeling approach Island Arc, Vol 19, 243-258
2009 Yukihiro Matsumoto*
N. H. Long
D. A. Thanh
Cao Huu Binh
Y. Ueda
T. Uchiyama
H. Kawahara
H. Okabe
S. Takagi
H. Mitsuishi 		Comprehensive CO2 EOR Study - Study on Applicability of CO2 EOR to Rang Dong Field - Part II Compositional Simulation Study PetroVietnam Journal VOL 10/2009
Winner of the "PVJ Valuable Article of the Year 2009" Award
2009 KURIHARA Masanori*
SATO Akihiko*
OUCHI Hisanao*
OHBUCHI Yukiko*
MASUDA Yoshihiro
NARITA Hideo
EBINUMA Takao
SAEKI Tatsuo
FUJII Tetsuya 		Examination on gas producibility from Eastern Nankai Trough methane hydrate resources JAPT, Vol.74 No.4 311-324, (abstract in English)
2009 Masanori Kurihara*
Kunihiro Funatsu*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Yoshihiro Masuda
Hideo Narita
Takao Ebinuma 		Development of numerical simulator predicting methane hydrate dissociation and production JAPT, Vol.74 No.4 pp 297-310, (abstract in English)
2008 Yoshihiro Masuda
Yoshihiro Konno
Hiroki Iwama
Taro Kawamura
Masanori Kurihara*
Hisanao Ouchi* 		Improvement of Near Wellbore Permeability by Methanol Stimulation in a Methane Hydrate Production Well OTC, 19433
2008 Masanori Kurihara*
Kunihiro Funatsu*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Yoshihiro Masuda
Koji Yamamoto
Hideo Narita
Scott R. Dallimore
Timothy S. Collett
Steve H. Hancock 		ANALYSES OF PRODUCTION TESTS AND MDT TESTS CONDUCTED IN MALLIK AND ALASKA METHANE HYDRATE RESERVOIRS: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THESE WELL TESTS? 5th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH-6), Proceedings
2008 Yuko Kawata*
Hiroshi Ohkuma*
Satoru Yokoi
Shigetaka Nakanishi
Kazuyuki Yoneyama
Tsutomu Hashimoto 		Sensitivity Analysis of CO2 Migration in Deep Saline Aquifer of Ise Bay, Japan, Using Heterogeneous and Homogeneous 2D Models Based on Depositional Facies Analysis 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-9), Washington D.C., U.S.　2008
2007 HASEGAWA Tomonori
MASUDA Yoshihiro
KONNO Yoshihiro
HANEDA Hironori
EBINUMA Takao
OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori* 		Study on methane recovery process from hydrate reservoirs by N2 CO2 gas mixture injection JAPT, Vol.72 No.4 P367-367, (in Japanese)
2006 IIDA Tetsuya
KONNO Yoshihiro
MASUDA Yoshihiro
KAWAMURA Taro
OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori* 		Study on modeling of methane hydrate dissociation by methanol injection JAPT, Vol.71 No.4 P373-373, (in Japanese)
2006 Tanase Daiji
Okuma Hiroshi*
Inoue Nozomu
Kawata Yuko*
Ohsumi Takashi 		Pilot CO2 injection into an onshore aquifer in Nagaoka, Japan and its simulation study 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-8), Trondheim, Norway, 2006.
2005 Yuko KAWATA*
Ryuji MATSUHA
Yoshihiro MASUDA
Kazuo FUJITA 		Investigation of the Methane Hydrate Development by Hybrid-type Power Generation with LNG Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy, Vol. 84, No.1, p. 68-75( 01 2005)
2005 Kurihara M.*
Funatsu K.*
Ouchi H.*
Masuda Y.
Narita H. 		Investigation on applicability of methane hydrate production methods to reservoirs with diverse characteristics. 5th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH-5), Proceedings Vol 3 pp 714-725
2005 KONNO Yoshihiro
MASUDA Yoshihiro
OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori*
KAMATA Yasushi
EBINUMA Takao 		Study on Dissociation Behavior Modeling of Methane Hydrate in Sediments JAPT, Vol.70 No.4 P380-381, (in Japanese)
2004 Fumio Okitsu Logging by Gravity Hammering-An unique logging tool for near surface soil investigation Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES) 10th Symposium (2004.9.29-30)
2004 Funatsu Kunihiro Reservoir simulation using time-lapse seismic JAPT, Vol.69 No.6 pp 653-660, (abstract in English)
2004 Yoshihiro Masuda
Takao Ebinuma
Masanori Kurihara*
Hisanao Ouchi*
Yoshihiro Konno
Hideo Narita 		NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDRATE DISSOCIATION BEHAVIOR IN SAND-PACKED CORES DURING DEPRESSURIZATION AND HEATING AAPG
2004 Ohkuma Hiroshi*
Kawata Yuko*
Kaneko Masatoshi*
Nghiem Long
Sammon Peter 		Simulation of Important Processes in CO2 Storage in Aquifers 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-7), Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
2004 HORINOUCHI Tomoatsu
HAMADA Chihiro
MASUDA Yoshihiro
OHUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori* 		Phase Equlibrium and Physical Property Calculation in the Simulation of Methanol Injected Gas Recovery from Methane Hydrate Reservoirs JAPT, Vol.69 No.4 P433-434, (in Japanese)
2003 Yuko Kawata*
Kazuo Fujita
Yoshihiro Masuda
Ryuji Matsuhashi 		Evaluation of Economics and CO2 Emission for Developing Offshore Methane Hydrate Deposit (The Japan Institute of Energy, Paper Award 2004) Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy, Vol. 82, No.4, pp.197-207 (April 2003), (In Japanese)
2003 Keiji Nagase
Shu-Tao Zhang*
Hiroki Asami
Nintoku Yazawa
Kazuhiro Fujiwara
Heiji Enomoto
Chengxie Hong 		A Successful application of microbial EOR field test in Fuyu oilfield, China JAPT, Vol.68 No.4, 271-281, (abstract in English)
2002 Nagase, K.
Zhang, S. T.*
Asami, H.
Yazawa, N.
Fujiwara, K.
Enomoto, H.
Hong, C. X.
C. Liang, X 		A Successful Field Test of Microbial EOR Process in Fuyu Oilfield, China SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, 13-17 April, Tulsa, Oklahoma, SPE-75238-MS
2002 HORINOUCHI Tomoatsu
MASUDA Yoshihiro
AOKI Takahiro
OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori*
YONEZAWA Tetsuo
 Numerical Study on Thermal Stimulation of Methane Hydrate Reservoirs JAPT, Vol.67 No.4 P389-389, (in Japanese)
2002 HORINOUCHI Tomoatsu
MASUDA Yoshihiro
AOKI Takahiro
OUCHI Hisanao*
KURIHARA Masanori*
YONEZAWA Tetsuo
 Evaluation of Gas Productivity of Horizontal Wells in Methane Hydrate Reservoirs JAPT, Vol.67 No.4 P389-389, (in Japanese)
2002 K. Nagase
S. T. Zhang*
H. Asami 		EOR Field Development Programs. Microbial EOR Field Test. MEOR Field Test in Fuyu-Oilfield, China. TRC Annual Report 2001
2001 Yuko Kawata*
Kazuo Fujita 		Some Predictions of Possible Unconventional Hydrocarbons Availability Until 2100 SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia, SPE68755
2001 Nagase, K.
Zhang, S. T.*
Asami, H.
Yazawa, N.
Fujiwara, K.
Enomoto, H.
Hong, C.X.
C. Liang, X. 		Improvement of Sweep Efficiency by Microbial EOR Process in Fuyu Oilfield, China SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, 17-19 April, Jakarta, Indonesia,SPE-68720-MS
2001 Nagase, K.
Zhang, S. T.*
Asami, H.
Yazawa, N.
Fujiwara, K.
Enomoto, H.
Hong, C.X.
C. Liang, X 		Introduction of Microbial EOR Process to Plug High-K Layer by Insoluble Polymer Proceeding of 22th Workshop of the International Energy Agency, Poland.
2000 K. Nagase
S. T. Zhang*
H. Asami 		EOR Field Development Programs. Microbial EOR Field Test. MEOR Field Test in Fuyu-Oilfield, China. TRC Annual Report 2000
2000 H. Asami
K. Nagase
S. T. Zhang* 		EOR Field Development Programs. Microbial EOR Field test. MEOR Effect of strain CJF-002. Experimental study. TRC Annual Report 2000
1998 K. Ohno
S. Maezumi
S. T. Zhang* 		Increased production of petroleum using microorganism. Real field verification test. Proceeding of Annual/Fall Meetings of the Japan Petroleum Institute 28th Petroleum-Petrochemical Symposium of Jpn. Petrol. Inst., 337-338, (in Japanese)
1997 K. Ohno
H. Yonebayashi
S. T. Zhang* 		Production increase of crude oil utilizing biotechnology. Proceeding of Annual/Fall Meetings of the Japan Petroleum Institute 27th Petroleum-Petrochemical Symposium of Jpn. Petrol. Inst., 184-185, (in Japanese)
1996 H. Yonebayashi
M. Taguchi
S. T. Zhang* 		EOR Field Development Programs. MEOR Field Pilot Test. TRC Annual Report 1996
1995 Yukihiro Matsumoto On the Reality and Trends of Reservoir Simulation Technology Sekiyu Kaihatsu Jihou No. 106 (1995-08) JPDA
1995 Fumio Okitsu In prospect for deep gas resources JAPT, Vol.60 No.2 P157-161, (in Japanese)
1991 Yukihiro Matsumoto Generalized Black-Oil Modeling Stanford University Research Group SUPRI-B (Reservoir Simulation) Report
1991 M. Karakas
Y.M. Yokoyama*
E.M. Arima 		Well Test Analysis of a Well With Multiple Horizontal Drainholes Middle East Oil Show, 16-19 November, Bahrain, SPE-21424-MS
1989 Y. Ueda
S. Murata
Y. Watanabe
K. Funatsu* 		Investigation of the Shape Factor Used in the Dual-Porosity Reservoir Simulator SPE Asia-Pacific Conference, 13-15 September, Sydney, Australia, SPE 19469
1989 Y. Yokoyama*
E. Arima 		Pilot Development of Tight Limestone Reservoir in the Khafji Field SPE Asia-Pacific Conference, 13-15 September, Sydney, Australias, SPE-19488-MS
1987 Hiroyuki Tosaka
Yukihiro Matsumoto* 		An Efficient Reservoir Simulation by The Successive Explicitization Process Journal of JAPT 1987 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 307-313
1987 Yukihiro Matsumoto Practicality of Reservoir Simulators and Improvement of Their Basic Capabilities Journal of JAPT 1987 Volume 52 Issue 6 Pages 527-533
1984 Fumio Okitsu Gaidobukku Sekai no DaiYuden (Guidebook Giant oil Field) JPI (The Japan Petroleum Institute), Gihodoshuppan, an editorial board member, (in Japanese)
1981 Yoshio Yokoyama*
Larry W. Lake 		The Effects of Capillary Pressure on Immiscible Displacements in Stratified Porous Media SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 4-7 October, San Antonio, Texas, SPE-10109-MS
1976 Fumio Okitsu Quick Interpretation Of The High Resolution Dipmeter (HDT) Society of Petrophysicists and Well-Log Analysts, SPWLA-1976-I, SPWLA 17th Annual Logging Symposium, 9-12 June, Denver, Colorado