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.

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Map of Block G-7-AP offshore Australia
The two companies are working on separation and capture of CO2 in Japan, followed by transport to northern Australia for injection into the offshore Bonaparte Basin.
Oct. 21, 2025
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Map of Abadi gas field offshore Indonesia
Front end engineering and design (FEED) has started for the INPEX Masela-operated Abadi LNG project offshore and onshore eastern Indonesia.
Aug. 6, 2025
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Valhall and Hod oil and gas fields
INPEX Norway Co. Ltd. will acquire from Pandion Energy a 10% participating interest each in the Valhall and Hod oil and gas fields currently in production and a 20% participating...
July 29, 2025
Courtesy INPEX Browse E&P
Australia issues recognition for offshore Northern Territory CCS project
The Bonaparte Carbon Capture and Storage development is getting ‘major project status.’
July 3, 2025
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Map of Serpang Working Area
INPEX has been awarded the Serpang Working Area offshore Eastern Java, Indonesia.
May 30, 2025
Courtesy Exxon Mobil
Upper Zakum development project map
ADNOC, Exxon Mobil and INPEX subsidiary Japan Oil Development Co. have agreed to sanction a phased expansion of the Upper Zakum oilfield development offshore the UAE.
May 21, 2025
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Goto Floating Wind Farm Naming Ceremony for Power Plant and Wind Turbines
The Goto Floating Wind Farm consortium has held a naming ceremony for the power plant and eight wind turbines for the Goto City, Japan, offshore wind power generation project....
April 21, 2025
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Location of Block G-7-AP offshore Australia
According to INPEX, this is potentially one of the world’s largest CCS projects.
April 17, 2025
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University of Tokyo and INPEX have jointly established a social cooperation program on advanced reservoir engineering for the sustainable development of energy resources.
The program is intended to promote the research and development (R&D) of technologies related to oil and natural gas development and CCS for the stable supply of lower-carbon ...
April 8, 2025
Courtesy Seascape Energy Asia
Kertang offshore Malaysia
Seascape Energy Asia has farmed out a 42.5% interest in the Block 2A production sharing contract offshore Indonesia to INPEX.
March 19, 2025

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INPEX Awarded Exploration Block AC/P71 Offshore Western Australia
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.
Aug. 22, 2024
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With topsides weighing about 78,000 tonnes gross and a deck size of 130 m by 120 m, the Ichthys Explorer central processing facility (pictured) is the world’s largest semisubmersible production platform and the first in Australian waters, according to INPEX.
INPEX has provisionally agreed to acquire 1.575% interests held by Tokyo Gas Co. in the Ichthys LNG project offshore/onshore northwest Australia.
Jan. 12, 2024
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The gray region represents the Masela Block, while the orange area represents the gas field.
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.
April 4, 2023
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Ocean Winds announced that Moray East achieved its full contracted output of 900 MW to the UK National Transmission Grid in early April 2022.
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.
March 2, 2023
Locations of Block 4E and Block SK418
Malaysia
INPEX has entered into production sharing contracts (PSCs) for two blocks offshore Sarawak, awarded under Petronas’ Malaysia Bid Round 2022.
Feb. 16, 2023
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Gulf Of Mexico
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...
Sept. 2, 2022
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Australia
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...
Aug. 24, 2022
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Dsme Fpso
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.
Aug. 10, 2022
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.
INPEX has started exploratory drilling surveys in the Shimane and Yamaguchi prefectures offshore Japan.
May 6, 2022
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Maersk Drilling’s ultra-deepwater semisubmersible Mærsk Deliverer.
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.
April 19, 2022

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INPEX Awarded Exploration Blocks in Malaysia Bid Round 2024
Petronas, via Malaysia Petroleum Management, has signed two production sharing contracts (PSCs) offshore Sabah, concluding the Malaysia Bid Round 2024 awards.
Feb. 18, 2025
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AC/RL7 Block
INPEX Cash Maple has signed an agreement to transfer nearly 4% of its interest in the AC/RL7 block offshore Western Australia to OPIC Australia, Osaka Gas Ichthys and Toho Gas...
Dec. 11, 2024
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INPEX Acquires Exploration Block 2A off the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia
INPEX has agreed to acquire Longboat Energy (2A) from Seascape Energy Asia, giving it a 42.5% interest in the production sharing contract for Block 2A offshore Sarawak.
Dec. 3, 2024
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Ichthys LNG
INPEX Browse E&P and Chubu Electric Power will jointly assess the feasibility of establishing a CCS value chain in the Asia-Pacific region.
Oct. 22, 2024
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Inpex Facility
INPEX will inaugurate the INPEX Research Hub for Energy Transformation on April 1.
Feb. 16, 2022
(Courtesy Heerema Marine Contractors)
The semisubmersible crane vessel Sleipnir.
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.
Feb. 11, 2022
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The Borssele III/IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
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.
Dec. 7, 2021