• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Masataka Yarita

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security

Head, Methane Management Taskforce

Masataka YARITA oversees business development for oil and gas upstream activities including low carbon solutions as Project Director, Business Strategy Department of Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC). He is jointly appointed as Head for Methane Management Taskforce and Senior Researcher for oil markets and European oil, gas and climate change issues in Research and Analytics Department of JOGMEC since November 2021. Previously, he served as a stocks and demand analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and provided analysis on OECD and major non-OECD petroleum inventories for the flagship monthly publication, Oil Market Report. He also contributed the IEA’s five-year oil market forecast providing an analysis on fundamental economic issues, petrochemical sector and global strategic petroleum reserves. He holds LLM in International Oil and Gas Law and Policy with Distinction from University of Dundee in Scotland and bachelor’s degree of Global Political Economy from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Sessions With Masataka Yarita

Monday, 18 March

  • 02:30pm - 03:00pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 07:30 pm - 18/mar/2024 08:00 pm

    Methane: Post COP28 roadmap
    Carbon Management/Decarbonization

    The build-up to COP28, and the event itself, saw a new impetus in regulations on methane emissions and flaring reduction from the U.S., Canada, Europe and others. The Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter, and funding to reduce methane emissions, will help to facilitate action from emitters. What are the next practical steps for operators to implement these renewed commitments? Over what timeline will there be material impact of these changes?