Inpex

INPEX Corporation
Native name
株式会社INPEX
Kokusai Sekiyu Kaihatsu-Teiseki kabushiki gaisha
"International Petroleum Exploration-Teikoku Oil stock company"
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 1605
Nikkei 225 component
TOPIX Large70 component
IndustryPetroleum
Founded1941 (as Teikoku Oil)
1966 (as North Sumatra Offshore Petroleum Exploration after contract with Pertamina predecessor)
HeadquartersAkasaka Biz Tower 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6332 Japan
Key people
Kunihiko Matsuo, Chairman
Naoki Kuroda, President
RevenueIncrease ¥ 2,324.6 billion JPY (FY 2022)
Increase ¥ 438.2 billion JPY (FY 2022)
OwnerGovernment of Japan through JOGMEC (18.96%)
Number of employees
2,146 (784 temporary workers) (2011)
Websitewww.inpex.co.jp

INPEX Corporation is a Japanese oil company established in February 1966 as North Sumatra Offshore Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.[1] INPEX is the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in Japan, with global exploration, development and production projects in 20 countries.[2] In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, INPEX was ranked as the 597th -largest public company in the world.[3]

  1. ^ The Japan Times Inpex fetches 549,000 yen in debut on first section November 18 2004 Archived 2020-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on August 14, 2012
  2. ^ INPEX 2019 Annual Report
  3. ^ "Forbes Global 2000". Forbes. Retrieved 31 October 2020.