Outline
About Jonquil
Profile
- Company Name
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Jonquil Consulting Inc.
- Established
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1st June 1990
- Stock
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84,000US$ (1$=¥120)
- Annual Turnover
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1,041,000 US$ (1$=¥ 145.00) 1st April,2024 - 31st March, 2025
- Address : Tokyo Head Office
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2-17-18 Honmachi Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 151-0071 Japan
Tel :
+81-3-5365-2805
Fax :
+81-3-5365-2856
E-mail address :
jq_request@jonquil.co.jp
Home page :
https://www.jonquil.co.jp/
- Main Bank
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Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Marunouchi Branch
Organization
- President, Chief Executive Officer
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Shigemi Ochiai
- Director
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Chiyosaku Inoue
Shigeki Ochiai
- Inspector
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Kazuko Ochiai
- Adviser
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Louis Padulo (President Emeritus, University City Science Centre, U.S.A.)
Company history
- May 30th, 1990
- Established Jonquil Consulting Inc., a US corporation, under the California Corporation Law, with capital of 10 million yen ($60,000) at 614 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA. Simultaneously, opened and registered the Tokyo office of Jonquil Consulting Inc., a US corporation, at 503 Jardin Motoazabu, 2-10-10 Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Professor Lester C. Thurow, Dean of MIT Sloan School, became our company's advisor. Also, Professor Louis Paduro, former president of the University of Alabama and current honorary chairman of the University of Philadelphia Research Foundation, became our company's advisor.
- February 14th, 1992
- The lecture and seminar business were separated from Jonquil Consulting Inc. and Ochiai Office Co. was established.
- February 20th, 1992
- US corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc. moves to 2029-422 Century Park East, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- January 11th, 1995
- Jonquil Consulting In. moves its headquarters from Motoazabu to Takaido, Suginami Ward.
- April 12th, 1999
- In order to make US corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc. a Japanese corporation, Ochiai Office is reorganized into Jonquil Consulting Inc. Japanese corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc. purchases all goodwill and industrial property rights from US corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc.
- July 31st, 1999
- US corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc. closes its Tokyo office.
- April 7th, 2000
- US corporation Jonquil Consulting Inc. (2029-422 Century Park East, Los Angeles, California, USA) is closed.
- April 21st, 2002
- Jonquil Consulting Inc. moves its headquarters from Takaido, Suginami-ku to its own office in Honmachi, Shibuya-ku.
- April 22nd, 2002
- The human resource development book "Engineering and Diplomacy," created in 1989, was re-edited by our advisor, Lester C. Thurow, and compiled into a pamphlet (not for sale), which was distributed to key person around the world.
- September 1st, 2004
- In September 2004, we presented "Methods and Results of Introducing Risk Management to Ensure Safety at Natural Gas Refining Plants" to the American Chemical Society (AIChE).
- November 5th, 2012
- Jonquil Consulting Inc. opened a new human resource development course, "One person Circle," which had been conducted by Toshiba Corporation.
- July 1st, 2013
- We compiled our consulting experience to date into "A New Method for Visualizing the New Product Development Process," which we presented at the 50th National Research Conference of the Japan Association for Management Systems.
- March 25th, 2016
- Our advisor, Lester C. Thurow (former Dean of the MIT Sloan School), passed away.
- August 6th, 2018
- PT. PERTAMINA (Indonesia's gas mining, oil extraction, production, sales, etc. operating company) and Jonquil Consulting Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on "Research and development for directly removing CO2 from natural gas."
- August 6th, 2019
- The content of the MOU on "Research and development for directly removing CO2 from natural gas" signed between PT PERTAMINA and our company on August 6, 2018 was changed to "General development of disposing technology for CO2 separated from natural gas," and the MOU period was extended for two years until August 3rd, 2021.
- March 19th, 2021
- We have completed the survey on the "CCUS International Collaboration Project, part of the FY2020 Infrastructure Development Survey Project for Bilateral Credit Acquisition, etc. (International Contribution Quantification and JCM Feasibility Study (including CCUS), Human Resource Development Project Support Secretariat and CEFIA Domestic Secretariat Operations)" adopted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan.
- May 10th to 13th, 2022
- With the support of JERA Americas in Houston, USA, we conducted a CO2 absorption test of our own water dispersion solvent at SPL's laboratory using natural gas supplied to the Houston Freeport. As a result, it was confirmed that 99% of the CO2 contained in natural gas was absorbed.
- October 2nd to 5th, 2023
- Following the CO2 absorption test conducted in 2020, with the support of JERA Americas in Houston, USA, we fabricated a reactor at SWRI's laboratory in San Antonio, using natural gas near San Antonio, and one-fifth the size of an actual reactor that emits 50 tons of CO2 per year, and conducted a CO2 absorption test using our own water dispersion solvent. As a result, it was confirmed that 99% of the CO2 contained in natural gas was absorbed.
- April 2nd, 2025
- We have begun designing and manufacturing a disappearance reactor with an annual CO2 emission capacity of 100 tons. This equipment is a non-stop process for CO2 absorption, solvent recycling, and CO2 fixation. As a first step, the equipment for CO2 absorption and solvent recycling will be operational in November 2025, with the aim of completing the non-stop process for CO2 fixation by March 2026, with operation starting from April.
Personal Record
- Shigemi Ochiai
President, Jonquil Consulting Inc -
Former:
Environmental cleanup advisor for the Rikuzen Takata City, Iwate
Lecturer at Waseda UniversitySpecialized field:
Vibration engineering, Structural engineering, Fracture mechanicsI had worked in the Chiyoda Chemical Engineering Company for 16 years. By utilizing its experience, I found the Jonquil Consulting Inc. in 1990. I became president also CEO. Now I have offered consulting business and a lecturer of risk management and project management to the companies.
Main Consulting
- ・The introduction of project management with the aim of efficiency of up to commissioning from the Key points of competitive bidding corresponding to the construction projects
- ・Quantitative risk assessment of plant structure
- ・Training of project managers
- ・Visualization and quantification aiming to improve efficiency of new product development
- ・Business strategy planning
- ・Fostering leaders that combine creativity
- ・Creating and commercializing product themes from prediction of trends three or five years ahead
- ・Environmental management and CSR
- ・Improvement of ethics and risk management
- ・CCUS(Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage)
- Main Papers
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- ・“Quantitative Risk Evaluation of LNG Equipment Applying ASME Risk-Based Maintenance Concepts”
AIChE, Process Safety Progress September 2005, Volume 24, No.3 pp.187-pp.191 - ・“A product development process for linked management: application cases of electrical home appliance products”
Int. J. Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2009
- ・“Quantitative Risk Evaluation of LNG Equipment Applying ASME Risk-Based Maintenance Concepts”
- Affiliation
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Japan Association for Management Systems
American Risk and Insurance Management Association
Activities
About our works
Consulting business
- ・A new product development
- ・Risk evaluation for product development
- ・Risk evaluation of equipments of LNG plant
- ・Verification and Investigation of Technologies
- ・Verification and Investigation of Environmental Technologies
- ・Development of New Technologies
- ・Verification and Investigation of Technical Collaborations
- ・Producing Instruction To Bidder (ITB) for LNG Plant Project
- ・Producing Instruction To Bidder (ITB) for Telecommunication System
- ・Earthquake Proof Safety Design for LNG Plant Facilities
Seminars, Training and Lectures
- ・Project Management
- ・Overall Risk Management
- ・A new product development
- ・Risk evaluation for product development
- ・Technology and Management
- ・The Relation between Project Management and Risk Management
- ・Risk Management for Earthquakes
Major Clients
- ・Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
- ・Development Bank of Japan Inc.
- ・Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
- ・JERA Americas Inc.
- ・Kagome Co., Ltd.
- ・Kirin Breweries, Ltd.
- ・Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd.
- ・Nitto Denko Co. Ltd.
- ・Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
- ・Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.
- ・TOYOTA Auto Body Co., Ltd.
- ・Yokohama Economic Affairs Bureau
- ・Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
- ・East Japan Railway Company
- ・Hokuriku Electric Power Co., Inc.
- ・JERA Co., Inc.
- ・Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
- ・Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.
- ・MITSUI & Co., Ltd.
- ・OMRON Corporation
- ・Terumo Corporation
- ・Toray Industries Inc.
- ・Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd.
- ・Zeon Corporation
- ・Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.
- ・FUJITSU Limited
- ・INPEX Corporation
- ・JERA Energy America LLC.
- ・Kibun Co., Ltd,
- ・Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- ・Nihonkai LNG Co., Ltd.
- ・Origin Electric Co., Ltd.
- ・Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
- ・Toshiba Co. Ltd.
- ・Yasukawa Electric Corporation