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Hiroyasu KONNO
Hiroyasu Konno provides legal services with additional value, based on knowledge about industrial practices and policy trends through all value chains in the energy and natural resources sector. He also actively works on legal issues with regard to “carbon” such as CCS.
Hiroyasu Konno specializes in the energy and natural resources sector, mainly in the upstream and middle-stream sectors, such as projects and transactions regarding LNG, biomass fuels, coal, rare metals, copper ore, petroleum, and other minerals in the world, as well as the down-stream sectors such as transactions regarding electricity and gas in Japan. He has a breadth of knowledge about industrial practices and policy trends, through his experience working as a secondee, or temporary worker, at Nippon Oil (currently ENEOS), JOGMEC (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (currently Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security))，and JERA, in addition to an energy and natural resources team in a foreign law firm, as well as experience from being a committee member of relevant governmental panels. He always endeavors to provide clients with legal services with additional value, including managerial perspectives. He handles all kinds of legal issues related to the energy and natural resources sector, by closely working together with N&A’s experts in each sector. He also actively works on legal issues with regard to “carbon”, such as CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage), transactions of carbon credits, and others.
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Japan Offshore Renewable Project Update
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Specified Minerals: Amendment to Requirements for Extension of Prospecting Right and Amendment to Requirements for Suspension of Work
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Seminars
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Overview of the Act on CO2 Storage Business
Online
External Seminars
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New Japanese Act on CO2 Storage Business
Tokyo
External Seminars
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CO2 Cross-Border Transport and Storage in IPCC GHG Inventories Guidelines
online
External Seminars
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Post closure roles by the public sector under the CCS legal system in foreign countries
Tokyo
External Seminars
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CCS legal system in foreign countries
Tokyo
External Seminars
Publications
News
- Appointment
- Hiroyasu Konno has been appointed as a Committee Member of the New LNG Strategy Review Meeting
- Appointment
- Hiroyasu Konno has been appointed as a Committee Member of the CCS Forum
- Appointment
- Notice of our new partners and a foreign law partner
- Notices
- Mark Tudor and Hiroyasu Konno joined an international group of legal experts supporting Professor Kim Talus in a project to create a "Model Diversion Clause for LNG Sale and Purchase Contract"
Education
- 2006
- Cornell Law School (LL.M.)
- 1997
- Waseda Universtiy (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Committee Member, the New LNG Strategy Review Meeting
- Committee Member, CCS Forum, Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage Technology
- A member of the “EU Japan LNG expert and stakeholder group” which supports the workshops for promoting the liquidity, flexibility and transparency of the global LNG market co-organised by the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and the Mini
- A member of the LNG Task Force of the Energy Charter Secretariat
- Strategic Planning Division, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation
- Energy & Resources group, Clayton Utz, Brisbane, Australia
- Member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (Tokyo Subcommittee Member)
- A leading energy and resources company in Japan
- Mcmillan Binch Mendelsohn, Toronto, Canada
- Lecturer, Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies