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2 unusual facts about Mitsui


Macondo Prospect

BP is the operator and principal developer of the oil field with 90% of interest, the final 10% by MOEX Offshore 2007, a unit of Mitsui.

Qatar Petroleum

In the international market, the major customers are Emirates National Oil Co. (ENOC), Glencore, Bakri Trading, Vitol, Mitsui and ITOCHU.


Arao, Kumamoto

Recent hopes to pull in tourists are in its two big amusement parks, Mitsui Greenland and Ultraman Land.

Bank of Taiwan

--following sentence is somewhat confusing--> The bank's creation was authorized in 1897 by the Bank Act of Taiwan which encouraged Japanese enterprises, such as the Mitsubishi and Mitsui Groups, to invest in Taiwan.

Hara Model Railway Museum

The museum is located on the second floor of the Yokohama Mitsui Building in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, and is a two-minute walk from Shin-Takashima Station on the Minatomirai Line, and a five-minute walk from Yokohama Station.

Ikuma Dan

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932.

Japan Steel Works

Japan Steel Works was set up with investment from British firms Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth and Mitsui.

Jun Mitsui

Jun Mitsui is a member of AIA (American Institute of Architects), JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) and Japan Architects Academy, and is a licensed architect in both Japan and the United States.

Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū

For instance, the former Moji Mitsui Club once hosted Dr. Albert Einstein and his wife when they visited Japan in the 1920s.

MS Aramis

Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.

Murugappa Group

Market leaders in several segments including Abrasives, Auto Components, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bioproducts and Nutraceuticals, the Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies like Groupe chimique tunisien, Foskor, Cargill, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Crucible and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

Nishi-ku, Osaka

China Southern Airlines has an office on the first floor of the Shinanobashi Mitsui Building (信濃橋三井ビル Shinanobashi Mitsui Biru).

Shipbuilding in Bangladesh

In 1979, the sector received its first foreign investment after the independence of Bangladesh when Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Industry, a Japanese enterprise, formed a joint venture with High Speed Shipyard of Bangladesh to establish a shipyard at Fatullah, Narayanganj.

SSCV Thialf

The ship was constructed in 1985 as DB-102 for McDermott by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1997, it was taken over by Heerema Marine Contractors after discontinuation of their joint venture with McDermott, HeereMac, and renamed Thialf.

Takaharu Mitsui

In addition to founding and contributing to Japanese philatelic journals, Baron Mitsui was an official advisor to the Japanese Communications Ministry and Postal Service Ministry, and also Honorary Counselor of the International Society for Japanese Philately.

Ukuru-class escort ship

Kanawa (金輪), constructed at Mitsui, Tamano, laid down on November 15, 1944, and commissioned on March 25, 1945.


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