Research & Development

History

1888	Nippon Oil is established.
1889	Ogura Aburaten is established (becomes Ogura Oil in 1925).
1905	Kuhara Mining is established (becomes Nippon Mining in 1929).
1916	Nippon Oil opens a chemical research laboratory in Kashiwazaki (reorganized as a testing laboratory in 1921, control transferred to the Army in 1939).
1931	Mitsubishi Oil is established.
1933	Toyoshoko is established (becomes Koa Oil in 1941).
1938	Ogura Oil opens a research laboratory in Yokohama.
1939	Toa Nenryo Kogyo is established (becomes Tonen in 1989).
1940	Toa Nenryo Kogyo opens a research laboratory in Shimizu.
1941	Nippon Oil merges with Ogura Oil. Ogura Oil's Yokohama research laboratory is reorganized as the Central Research Laboratory.
1941	Mitsubishi Oil establishes a research department.
1945	Nippon Oil reorganizes the central research laboratory as a central technical research laboratory.
1949	Nippon Mining opens its Karasuyama testing laboratory.
1951	Nippon Petroleum Refining is established (becomes Nisseki Mitsubishi Refining in 1999).
1955	Nisseki Mitsubishi Refining is established (becomes Nippon Petrochemicals in 2002).
1958	General Sekiyu is established.
1959	Nippon Mining relocates its Karasuyama testing laboratory to Toda and reorganizes it as a central testing laboratory (reorganized as a central research laboratory in 1964).
1960	Kyushu Oil is established.
1961	Nippon Oil relocates its central technical research laboratory to Kawasaki.
1961	Toa Nenryo Kogyo relocates its research laboratory to Kamifukuoka and reorganizes it as a central research laboratory.
1965	Kyodo Oil is established.
1967	Nippon Petrochemicals opens a processing research laboratory (renamed a resin research laboratory in 1978). Kashima Oil is established.
1971	Nippon Oil relocates its central technical research laboratory to Honmoku.
1971	Koa Oil opens its Osaka research laboratory.
1972	Mitsubishi Oil reorganizes its research department as a research laboratory.
1977	Kashima Oil opens a research laboratory.
1980	Toa Nenryo Kogyo reorganizes its central research laboratory as a corporate R&D laboratory.
1980	General Sekiyu opens its Kawasaki product research laboratory (reorganized as a central product research laboratory in 1981 and a central research laboratory in 1986).
1985	Nippon Mining reorganizes its central research laboratory as a corporate R&D laboratory.
1991	Nippon Petrochemicals opens the Fujisawa office of its new materials research laboratory.
1992	Nippon Mining and Kyodo Oil merge, changing the company name to Nikko Kyodo (becomes Japan Energy in 1993).
1993	Koa Oil closes its Osaka research laboratory.
1998	General Sekiyu closes its central research laboratory.
1999	Nippon Oil and Mitsubishi Oil merge, changing the company name to Nisseki Mitsubishi (becomes Nippon Oil in 2002). The research laboratories of both companies are consolidated as a central technical research laboratory.
2000	Tonen and General Sekiyu merge, changing the company name to Tonen General Sekiyu.
2002	Nisseki Mitsubishi Refining and Koa Oil merge, changing the company name to Nippon Petroleum Refining.
2003	Tonen General Sekiyu relocates its corporate R&D laboratory to Ukishima and reorganizes it as a central research laboratory.
2005	Nippon Petrochemicals integrates its research and development department into Nippon Oil.
2008	Nippon Petroleum Refining and Nippon Petrochemicals merge.
2008	Nippon Oil and Kyushu Oil merge.
2010	Nippon Oil, Japan Energy, and Nippon Petroleum Refining merge, changing the company name to JX Nippon Oil & Energy. The research laboratories of both companies are consolidated as a central technical research laboratory.
2017	JX Nippon Oil & Energy and Tonen General Sekiyu merge, changing the company name to JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy (becomes ENEOS in 2020). The research laboratories of both companies are consolidated as a central technical research laboratory.