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

Toshiaki Takimoto

INPEX Corporation

Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Corporate Strategy & Planning and Head of Net Zero Business

Toshiaki Takimoto is Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Planning at INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX), the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in Japan. He assumed this role in 2024 and is also in charge of Legal Affairs and is Head of Net Zero Business. Prior to his current position, from 2023, Mr. Takimoto served as Senior Vice President of Hydrogen & CCUS Development, responsible for hydrogen, ammonia and CCUS/CCS projects. In 2019, he assumed his role as Managing Executive Officer. Before getting involved in net zero businesses, he was Senior Vice President of New Ventures & Global Exploration, taking the lead in exploration, technical evaluation, M&A and business development of oil & gas upstream projects. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Executive Officer, Senior Vice President of America and Africa Projects. Mr. Takimoto has more than 35 years of experience in upstream operations and new business development in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Japan. He has spent 4 years in Venezuela Caracas Office, and 3 years in London Office, both as General Manager. He was involved in various projects and new business development in Latin America, the Caspian Sea region, including the ACG oil field in Azerbaijan and the Kashagan project in Kazakhstan where he led INPEX’s business development and operations. He was also in charge of locating upstream business opportunities in the Northern Atlantic Margin including Norway and northwestern Europe through leading technical evaluation work and commercial negotiations.

Sessions With Toshiaki Takimoto

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:50am - 12:40pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:40 pm

    Strategies and Business Models for Deploying CleanTech
    Clean Tech

    New innovations in cleantech, carbon management, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, transportation and other industries require a diverse ecosystem of partners to ensure ideas can be scaled up and commercialized. Those partners range from the startup community, customers, corporations and a variety of financiers who together need to steer innovations through their various stages of growth and deployment. What models of innovation development are proving most effective in supporting technologies applicable to the energy transition? How are players managing the need to establish partnerships, while also maintaining their competitive advantage?  

  • 01:00pm - 01:30pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 06:00 pm - 19/mar/2024 06:30 pm

    Everything Is Bigger in Texas: Building hydrogen city
    Hydrogen

     Announced in 2022, the largest green hydrogen production, storage and transport hub is being developed in South Texas. It will be powered by behind-the-meter solar and wind and the first phase is expected to produce a quarter (1/4) million tonnes of green hydrogen per year. The project developers will provide an update on the early stages of the project.