Drilling related education in Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.

Japanese oil companies play the role of maintaining or extending the amount of reserves both domestically and overseas for Japan.In recent years, exploration and development cost have increased dramatically as the well depths are much extended, well locations move further to remote areas and water depths go deeper. Environmental protection requires more complicated techniques and careful management of drilling activities, which boost up total expenditure of projects incurred. These trends make the finance of operators greatly tight and restricted. Besides, these difficulties are compounded by an upsurge of resource nationalism among the oil-producing countries, the price of oil hovering the lower level, and the unfavorable exchange rates for Japanese yen to U. S. dollar. Under such desperate circumstances we are demanded to complete our objectives more precisely and efficiently than ever by devoting our abilities to the work. Thus a comprehensive educational program must be one of the key issues to achieve our goal by cultivating knowledge of individuals.In view of the above, this paper introduces an in-house training program of JAPER (Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.) that is composed of the followings:1) education for new employee2) education for drilling engineer3) training for dirlling crew4) in-house seminar