Mr. Fuminori Honda belongs to Exploration & Development Department of Domestic E&P Project Division, Japan Petroleum Exploration co., ltd. He is in charge of creating exploration opportunity in domestic fields. He participated in one of the exploration projects in the domestic marine field as a geophysicist from the geological evaluation phase after wildcat well data acquisition. He is currently in the position of deputy manager of this project and involved in project feasibility study. He has been working in Japex since 2004. He also has been involved in seismic data acquisition and processing when he belonged to JGI which is a subsidiary of Japex from 2005 to 2010. He has joined several subsurface study teams of both domestic and oversea fields as a geophysicist and has been involved in seismic data interpretation works. In 2013, he joined a middle east project team at Petronas as a secondee where he served as seismic interpreter for 2.5 years. He holds a Master's degree in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of Tokyo.