Yoshiaki Ueda
JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation
Chief Technical Officer
Yoshiaki Ueda is an Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation, formerly Nippon Oil Exploration Ltd. Dr. Ueda has more than 35 years of experience in the exploration and production (E&P) industry. He started his career in 1980 at Arabian Oil Co., Ltd., a Japanese E&P company. After working with the company in the Middle East and South East Asia for over 25 years, he joined Nippon Oil Exploration Limited in 2008. Dr. Ueda has led several pioneering projects related to gas-enhanced oil recovery (EOR), integrating laboratory works, reservoir simulation study, and pilot testing in an offshore Vietnamese oil field. For the past five years, he has provided technical leadership and project management on the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage project—one of the world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture-EOR projects from a legacy oil field with anthropogenic CO2 emitted from a Texas coal-fired power plant. Dr. Ueda holds three degrees in petroleum engineering: a BS from the University of Tokyo, an MS from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Tokyo.