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    COMPANY OVERVIEW

    About INPEX

    INPEX Corp. is Japan’s largest exploration and production company and is involved in projects across multiple continents, including the Ichthys LNG project in Australia (as operator).

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    INPEX's main business is in research, exploration, development, production and sales of oil, natural gas and other mineral resources, other related businesses and investment, and lending to the companies engaged in these activities.

    Articles & News

    Courtesy INPEX
    INPEX Awarded Exploration Block AC/P71 Offshore Western Australia
    Australia & New Zealand

    INPEX expands exploration position in Ichthys area offshore Australia

    Aug. 22, 2024
    INPEX Browse E&P has secured an exploration permit off the northwest coast of Western Australia under Australia’s 2022 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release.
    Courtesy INPEX
    Australia & New Zealand

    INPEX consolidates position in Ichthys LNG

    Jan. 12, 2024
    INPEX has provisionally agreed to acquire 1.575% interests held by Tokyo Gas Co. in the Ichthys LNG project offshore/onshore northwest Australia.
    Courtesy INPEX
    The gray region represents the Masela Block, while the orange area represents the gas field.
    Field Development

    INPEX alters Abadi LNG plan to incorporate CCS

    April 4, 2023
    INPEX subsidiary INPEX Masela has submitted a revised plan of development for the Abadi LNG project offshore/onshore Indonesia to the country’s government authorities.
    Courtesy Brett Currie; www.brettcurrie.com
    Ocean Winds announced that Moray East achieved its full contracted output of 900 MW to the UK National Transmission Grid in early April 2022.
    Renewable Energy

    INPEX takes stake in Moray East wind farm

    March 2, 2023
    INPEX has acquired a 16.7% interest in the Moray East wind farm, 22 km from Scotland’s Moray East coast in the UK central North Sea.
    Locations of Block 4E and Block SK418
    Malaysia
    Production

    INPEX joins Petronas in offshore Sarawak PSCs

    Feb. 16, 2023
    INPEX has entered into production sharing contracts (PSCs) for two blocks offshore Sarawak, awarded under Petronas’ Malaysia Bid Round 2022.
    Photo 96023775 © Marko Bukorovic | Dreamstime.com
    Gulf Of Mexico
    US & Gulf of Mexico

    INPEX to transfer interest in Lucius and Hadrian North fields in GoM

    Sept. 2, 2022
    INPEX Americas Inc. has transferred its entire participating interest in the Lucius Field and the Hadrian North Field to Anadarko US Offshore LLC, Murphy Exploration & Production...
    Photo 161905173 © Colin Cramm | Dreamstime.com
    Australia
    Australia & New Zealand

    INPEX-led trio awarded carbon capture assessment permit offshore northwest Australia

    Aug. 24, 2022
    INPEX, TotalEnergies and Woodside Energy have secured a greenhouse-gas storage assessment permit (G-7-AP) offshore northwest Australia, under their Bonaparte CCS Assessment joint...
    Courtesy DSME
    Dsme Fpso
    Vessels

    INPEX files $970M claim against DSME for FPSO work

    Aug. 10, 2022
    INPEX has filed a $970 million claim against South Korean shipbuilder DSME, seeking compensation for alleged delays and construction issues related to a 2012 FPSO order.
    The Oceanic Breeze vessel is an LNG tanker built in 2018. The current position of the vessel is East Asia and it is headed to JP YKK E.
    Drilling & Completion

    INPEX surveying drilling prospects offshore Japan

    May 6, 2022
    INPEX has started exploratory drilling surveys in the Shimane and Yamaguchi prefectures offshore Japan.
    Courtesy Maersk Drilling
    Maersk Drilling’s ultra-deepwater semisubmersible Mærsk Deliverer.
    Australia & New Zealand

    INPEX lengthens Maersk rig hire for Ichthys project offshore Australia

    April 19, 2022
    INPEX Operations Australia has exercised an option to extend its use of Maersk Drilling’s ultra-deepwater semi Mærsk Deliverer at the Ichthys field off Western Australia.

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    (Courtesy INPEX)
    Inpex Facility
    Company News

    INPEX opening clean energy R&D center in Japan

    Feb. 16, 2022
    INPEX will inaugurate the INPEX Research Hub for Energy Transformation on April 1.
    (Courtesy Heerema Marine Contractors)
    The semisubmersible crane vessel Sleipnir.
    Field Development

    INPEX designates Heerema for Ichthys module T&I

    Feb. 11, 2022
    INPEX has named Heerema Marine Contractors its contractor of choice for the transport and installation of the 4,800-metric ton Ichthys LNG booster compression module.
    (Courtesy Flying Focus / Blauwind)
    The Borssele III/IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
    Renewable Energy

    INPEX negotiates stakes in two Dutch North Sea wind farms

    Dec. 7, 2021
    The company will gain a 50% stake in the Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm and 15% in the Blauwind consortium’s Borssele III/IV wind farm.