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- ENEOS Holdings, Inc. (JXHGF) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate that manages operations in energy, resources, metals, and related sectors through its principal subsidiaries, including ENEOS Corporation, ENEOS Xplora, ENEOS Materials, ENEOS Power, and ENEOS Renewable Energy; it engages in the refining and marketing of petroleum products such as gasoline, kerosene, lubricants, and petrochemicals; import and sale of natural gas; exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas; production and sale of high-performance materials including synthetic rubber, thermoplastic elastomers, and advanced materials; generation and retail of electricity, city gas supply; renewable energy operations encompassing solar, wind, and biomass power; as well as hydrogen supply, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), biofuels, synthetic fuels, asphalt paving, civil engineering, construction, land transportation, rail transportation of oil products, real estate, and mining of non-ferrous metals. Headquartered at 1-1-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, the company traces its origins to 1888 with the establishment of Nippon Oil Corporation and was formally incorporated as ENEOS Holdings on April 1, 2010, following the merger of JX Holdings and TONENGeneral Sekiyu; it maintains a global footprint with refining and marketing networks in Japan (over 12,000 ENEOS-branded service stations), operations in the United States (including ENEOS USA Inc. and lubricant facilities), Southeast Asia (such as Thailand), and exploration assets in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the UAE, serving automotive, industrial, aviation, shipping, chemical, power, and consumer markets. In recent developments, ENEOS Holdings invested USD 100 million alongside A.P. Moller Holding and A.P. Moller-Maersk in C2X in April 2025 to advance green methanol production projects including the Beaver Lake Renewable Energy initiative in Louisiana; it is exploring overseas acquisitions of oil assets worth around $1 billion and upstream-to-downstream LNG assets primarily in the Asia-Pacific region as part of its medium-term management plan through fiscal 2027-28, which allocates Yen 500 billion-1 trillion for selective M&A and investments in low-carbon fuels like LNG and SAF; the company restructured in 2024 by converting ENEOS Corporation Resources & Power into the independent ENEOS Power Corporation, merging ENEOS High Performance Materials into ENEOS Materials Corporation, renaming Japan Renewable Energy to ENEOS Renewable Energy, and acquiring Japan Drilling Co., Ltd. to bolster its CCS/CCUS value chain; it also delayed its carbon neutrality target to FY2050-51 while advancing renewable energy with over 100 power plants, hydrogen stations, and biomass facilities like the Muroran plant.