Research and development |

We are conducting projects commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC), New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and other organizations.

1. R&D projects

【Recent Major Commissioned R&D】

Entrustor	Project name	Project period
MOE	Low Carbon TechnologyResearch and Development Program “Long-term field investigation of safety and efficiency of a hot spring binary power plant using ammonia water as working fluid”	FY2013～FY2015
JOGMEC	Geothermal Power Generation Technology R&D Project “Development of geothermal reservoir evaluation and management technology”	FY2013～FY2022
	“Development of Geothermal Database”	FY2014～FY2021
	Geothermal Power Generation Technology R&D Project “Carbon Recycle CO2 Geothermal Power Generation Technology”	FY2021～FY2025
NEDO	Feasibility Study Program / Feasibility Study Program on Energy and New Environmental Technology “Development of Carbon Dioxide Recirculating Geothermal Power Generation System”	FY2020～FY2021
	Innovative Technologies Applied to Geothermal Exploration and Exploitation / Development of technologies to promote greater utilization of geothermal power generation “Development of IoT-AI Technology to Maintain Sustainability of Geothermal Power Generation (Improvement of Utilization Factor of Geothermal Power Plants”	FY2021～FY2023
	Innovative Technologies Applied to Geothermal Exploration and Exploitation / Development of supercritical geothermal resource technologies “Supercritical Geothermal Resource Assessment (Kujyu area)” “Supercritical Geothermal Resource Assessment (Kakkonda area)”	FY2021～FY2023

2. Major technologies that we have commercialized in government R&D

Entrustor	Technologies
NEDO	High-precision MT equipment PTS memory logging equipment for detecting lost circulation Drilling database for lost circulation PT memory logging equipment for high temperature (400°C) Downhole sampler for high temperature (300°C) Well path calculation and borehole temperature analysis programs MT 2D/3D analysis program Electromagnetic borehole survey technology Silica recovery technology
JOGMEC	Electromagnetic tomography equipment and CSEM 2.5D analysis program

Entrustor

Technologies

NEDO

High-precision MT equipment
PTS memory logging equipment for detecting lost circulation
Drilling database for lost circulation
PT memory logging equipment for high temperature (400°C)
Downhole sampler for high temperature (300°C)
Well path calculation and borehole temperature analysis programs
MT 2D/3D analysis program
Electromagnetic borehole survey technology
Silica recovery technology

JOGMEC

Electromagnetic tomography equipment and CSEM 2.5D analysis program

3. Technologies Developed In-House

We develop our own software for reservoir and wellbore simulation and to use them for our consulting services. And we also sell those softwares.

G*BASE (visualized underground information database)
GFLOW (borehole fluid simulator)
GeoCAD (pre-processor for TOUGH2)