PLACE AND DATE:
The Meeting of the Executive Committee, the Workshop, and the Symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery will be held on September 25-29, 2005, at the Technology and Research Center (TRC) of Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan.

GETTING TO CHIBA & CONFERENCE VENUE, JAPAN:
Getting to Chiba:　New Tokyo International Airport often called “Narita Airport” is the major international airport in Japan and it is located around 30km to Chiba, where JOGMEC-TRC is located. In addition to the train from the airport to JR Kaihin-Makuhari station, the airport buses to your hotel (Hotel Springs Makuhari) are available as scheduled below.

Getting to the Technology and Research Center (TRC) from your hotel free shuttle buses between the hotel and the TRC will be scheduled as follows:

	Morning	Afternoon
Mon 26 to Wed 28	Hotel to TRC 9:00, 9:20	TRC to Hotel 17:10, 17:30

Location of TRC:
Go to our web site (http://www.jogmec.go.jp/english/access.html) then click the map of Technology and Research Center.
Useful information:
Narita International Airport http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html
Makuhari area http://www.makuhari.or.jp/main/english/index_e.html　
Map around TRC and Hotel: MAP around TRC-Hotel.pdf

VISA:
Entrance to Japan may require a visa from some citizenship. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan officially announces that it will take about 10 days to issue a visa upon receipt of an application generally. In some cases, it takes more than one month to issue a visa, therefore, we cordially ask you to contact the Japanese Embassy or Consulate in your country at the earliest possible date. Please contact the Japanese Embassy or Consulate in your country, or your travel agency, to check whether or not you will need a visa.

CLIMATIC INFORMATION:
Japan generally enjoys clear weather with slight humidity in this season. Average temperature in Tokyo is around 20℃ at lowest and 26℃ at highest in September. Japan, however, is often struck by typhoons from the end of summer through September.

THE SYMPOSIUM:
The theme of this year’s Symposium will be: “Advancement of Simulation Technologies for Improved Oil Recovery”.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING:
The meeting of the Executive Committee will be held on Thursday 29 September. Agenda will be submitted before the meeting.

PROCEEDINGS:
The Proceedings of the Workshop and Symposium will be produced on CD. A ring binder of abstracts will be included in your registration package.

ACCOMMODATION:
Fifty rooms at the Hotel Springs Makuhari (http://www.springs.co.jp/index.shtml) are currently reserved for the workshop attendees. Should you require more information about the hotel, do not hesitate contact us. We will inform more detail later.

WELCOME RECEPTION:
All participants and accompanying persons are cordially invited to a Welcome Reception at 19:00-21:00, Sunday 25 September at the Hotel Springs Makuhari.

INFORMATION CONCERNING REGISTRATION
Information concerning registration form and fees with some additional information about the conference and the hotel will be sent later.

BACKGROUND:
Since 1979, the International Energy Agency has coordinated an implementing agreement on enhanced oil recovery. This group meets once per year to hold a two-day workshop and a one-day symposium. This is a task-shared agreement without an operating agent or a central budget. Our meetings have migrated in the past decade from closed sessions to open sessions where the information is deemed to be in the public domain.
The membership of this implementing agreement includes the following nations:

Australia
Austria
Canada
China
Denmark
France
Japan
Norway
Russia
UK
USA
Venezuela

The 2002 workshop was held in Caracas, Venezuela and was followed by a one-day symposium on the subject of optimizing recovery in high temperature/high pressure reservoirs. The 2003 workshop was held in Regina, Canada and the following symposium was entitled: “Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage”. Norway organized the 2004 workshop and the symposium entitled “Enhanced Recovery from Chalk or Carbonate Reservoirs”. Attendance usually ranges from 50 to 100 persons all with a highly technical background. Many bilateral conversations occur and the meeting helps international networking as well as creating international research EOR projects and cooperation. The real value of the meeting is the small close group who share experience from their various nations perspectives. Within the implementing agreement there are six Tasks of R&D:

Studies of fluids and interfaces in porous media
Fundamental research on surfactants and polymers
Development of gas flooding techniques
Thermal recovery
Dynamic reservoir characterization
Emerging technologies