AOC signs feasibility study agreement with University of Tokyo
March 15, 2010
In photo, from the left:
Professor Koichi Terasawa, General Manager of Collaborative Research Development, Division of University Corporate Relations (University of Tokyo)
Dr. Kazuro Kageyama, the Director of the Division of University Corporate Relations
Mr. Ahmed Zahrani, the Chief Representative of AOC Tokyo
Dr. Saad Alkhateib, AOCT Research and Technology Representative
Dr. Shunpei Miyajima, Program Officer, Division of University Corporate Relations
TOKYO, Japan – Aramco Overseas Company B.V. (AOC) Tokyo Chief Representative Ahmed Al-Zahrani on March 15 signed a feasibility study agreement with the University of Tokyo (UT) to explore new research collaboration opportunities of mutual interest. Dr. Kazuro Kageyama, director of Corporate Relations signed the agreement as the university counterpart.
“AOC’s research and development challenging targets cannot be fulfilled without the collaboration with world-class research institutions such as UT and this agreement marks a major milestone in this strategic relationship,” said Al-Zahrani.
“The agreement will establish networks with laboratories and researchers to find appropriate partners to develop potential research collaborations for AOC and Saudi Aramco’s future business needs,” said Dr. Saad Alkhateib, AOC Tokyo Research and Technology Representative and the mastermind of this agreement.
Dr. Kageyama expressed his happiness to conclude the agreement and promised to assign their best talent and expertise on this study.
UT is a leading research university which offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. It ranks as the highest in Asia as per Academic Ranking of World Universities and third in the world in the 2009 Global universities ranking. It prides in having 15 prime ministers of Japan and six Nobel Prize winners as alumni.
