Hideharu Yonebayashi

Hideharu Yonebayashi, SPE, is a distinguished engineer at Japan Oil Development Company with over 30 years’ experience of assignments in INPEX, Japan National Oil Corporation, Bunduq Company, and ExxonMobil Development Company. He holds a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from Tohoku University and has authored or co-authored over 120 technical papers. His main interests are improved/enhanced oil recovery with related technologies such as gas-induced asphaltene risk evaluation. Yonebayashi received the Innovation and Technology Awards at the 2023 Middle East Oil, Gas, and Geosciences conference and the 2024 SPE Oman Petroleum Energy Show. He has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2021–22 and as SPE Japan Director since 2015 and is on the JPT Editorial Review Board.