JAMSTEC Fleet Management Reborn

Plan

Shin’ichi Kuramoto (Satoshi Tsukioka)

JAMSTEC

YOKOSUKA KAIREI MIRAI KAIMEI

SHINSEI-MARU HAKUHO-MARU CHIKYU

SHINKAI 6500

Oct. 2-4, 2018

@Barcelona

JAMSTEC Fleets

YOKOSUKA KAIREI MIRAI KAIMEI

SHINSEI-MARU HAKUHO-MARU CHIKYU

SHINKAI 6500

KAIKO (ROV)

HYPER-DOLPHIN (ROV) URASHIMA (AUV) PICASSO(AUV) MR-X1(AUV)

JINBEI (AUV) OTOHIME(AUV) YUMEIRUKA (AUV)

Mother vessel of

Shinkai 6500

& AUV Urashima

ROV KAIKO

2D Seismic

Oceanography

observation

Multi purpose

Geol. & Geophys.

2D &has 3D

seismic

Costal survey

Drilling

Current Situation on Budget

JAMSTEC Budget Transition (m Yen)

2016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004 (JFY)

Operating exp.

Subsides

Supplement

SIP Project

…… and, Diesel Fuel Price is getting expensive…

Concerning on the recent budget

Budget falls to right…with government policy.

Budget of 2016 is three quarters of 2008.

Re-structuring Marine Research Platform

Operation after JFY2019

MARITEC(Marine Technology and

Engineering Center)

6 research vessels and ROVs,

AUVs

Seismic operation

CDEX(Center for Deep Earth

Exploration)

Chikyu

a single organization

in

JAMSTEC

Note: under discussion in JAMSTEC

＋

New JAMSTEC 7 years term will start from JFY2019

(restructuring is under discussion, however…)

● 7 research vessels including Chikyu operation will be managed by a single department in JAMSTEC

● More scientifically adaptable research platforms (vessels/ROVs/AUVs/HOV) management expected based upon projects

● for site surveys, for shallow samplings, etc

● for more collaboration with international partners

● More close communication between engineering development and platform operation

● Efficient and effective platform management should be available within the 7 years term

● Increase commercial usage using ship’s idling time like Chikyu operation

● More internationalization requested by the JAMSTEC Advisory Board

Challenges

Safety platform operation under a QHSE management system

Share R&M information and materials among platforms to

reduce cost of all

New contract will establish for all research ship operation

suggested by an external committee

Introduce long-term platform life-time management

Establish a team to contact international organization (research

institutions, companies, governments, etc)

Appropriate human resource management

A Model of Challenge (presented by Kuramoto in the last IRSO)

(secure pre-, during-, post-drilling Research Capability)

EOS, AGU

Pre-drilling Researchshallow to deep crustal structure by 2D and 3D

seismic survey

hazard identification survey by high-res. seismic

survey

geo-tech core sampling

topography and geophysical data

met-ocean observation

During-drilling Researchwalk-away VSP in 2D and 3D

active monitoring

bore-hole tomography

Post-drilling Researchactive/passive monitoring by LTBMS

in-situ bore-hole experiments

R/V KAIMEI

R/V Langseth

BMS

Long PC

Summary

• Effective and efficient research platform management for the coming 7 years

term in JAMSTEC is highly required.

• Be more internationalize on platform management in JAMSTEC.

• Collaborate with not only academia but also commercial companies on

engineering development and platform operation

then…

IRSO is/will be a appropriate place to share information and discussion.

… more concrete reborn plan in JAMSTEC will be

presented in the next IRSO meeting. I’m very sorry

for my urgent schedule change.

Shin’ichi Kuramoto