The Applied Technology Workshop （ATW） “SPE/JAPT-ATW 2019 Tokyo”, co-hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers （SPE） and the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology （JAPT）, was held for two days at The Westin Tokyo on June 27 and 28, 2019. In this ATW titled “Innovations in Natural Gas - Development, Storage, Transportation, and Utilisation”, the natural gas, which is expected to play a central role in the primary energy mix from the viewpoints of energy security, relatively low carbon dioxide emissions during combustion and ease of use and transport, was focused on, and 10 sessions were prepared for discussing various technologies from upstream to downstream.
Following the keynote speeches in Session 1, Session 2 covered the development of natural gas from both conventional and non-conventional reservoirs. In Session 3, methane hydrate, an unconventional natural gas resource expected in Japan, was raised. Gas utilization technologies such as gas injection, carbon dioxide capture and storage （CCS）, and CCS-EOR （Enhanced Oil Recovery） were discussed in Session 6. Sessions 7 and 8 discussed natural gas processing in the midstream and downstream industries including LNG （Liquefied Natural Gas）, floating LNG, and micro LNG.
On the other hand, digital technologies and technologies for implementing projects in harmony with the environment are expected to be applied at all the stages of natural gas development/processing, and were discussed in Sessions 4 and 9, respectively. In addition to these discussion sessions, six poster presentations were held in Session 5.
A total of 89 persons from 38 organizations in 8 countries, including two chairs, 20 program committee members and 4 planning committee members, participated in this ATW. Opinions and expertise on current status and future prospects of natural gas were exchanged actively, and the meaningful and rewarding time could be shared by all the participants.
This ATW was successfully summarized and closed in Session 10.
