Koji YAMAMOTO is the Senior Vice President of Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) in charge of Technologies of Energy Business Unit. He received a Ph.D at Tohoku University in 2004 with studies on acoustic, reservoir geomechanics and numerical modelling. He made his carrier in a private consulting firm and current Governmental organization and has worked for many R&D projects to solve problems happening in petroleum field developments. The Middle East is one of his core interest areas and was involved in many projects in UAE and other countries. Recently he is extending his work to the development of low carbon fuel projects including blue hydrogen and ammonia and managing teams working on several multi-national and international cooperation projects. He also teaches technical topics in Kyoto and Kyushu Universities and was appointed to an Asia-Pacific Regional Director of Society of Petroleum Engineers, recently.