Jubilee Exhibition and Conference Caspian Oil and Gas

Traditional Annual International Exhibition and Conference "Caspian Oil and Gas" (Caspian Oil and Gas) kicks off on June 4 in Baku.

The exhibition will be held from 4 to 7 June in Baku Expo Center. The opening ceremony of the exhibition will attend the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

The current commemorative event - it is held for the 20th time and in scope in the Caspian region is considered one of the best in the field of oil and gas.

As the organizer of the conference and exhibition company Iteca Caspian, this year the exhibition will be the participation of 386 companies from 28 countries. Note that on the Caspian Oil and Gas-2012 participated 304 companies from 35 countries.

Compared to last year the exhibition area increased by 22%, and the total number of exhibitors - by 25%. Unfading interest in the exhibition highlight the 20% of new companies, never before coming out on the market of Azerbaijan. The main achievement during the years of the exhibition is the annual increase of the local companies that make up this year 30% of all participants.

Over the years, the exhibition took part in it 5,600 companies from more than 70 countries, noted in Iteca Caspian.

Among the VIP-guests of the current exhibition and conference, the Minister of Energy of Georgia Kakha Kaladze, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of the UK's trade with Azerbaijan Charles Hendry, State Secretary to the Minister of Trade of Sweden Gunnar Oom, Secretary General of the Energy Charter Urban Rusnak, Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Turkmenistan Annageldy Mammetyazov and others.

The conference is held June 5-6 in Jumeirah Bilgah Beach Hotel. The main topics of the conference: "Azerbaijan is a key to ensuring energy supply and security of Eurasia", "International cooperation in the growth and diversification of production," "Geological exploration and expansion potential hydrocarbon resource base of Azerbaijan," Major mining projects: innovation infrastructure shelf "," Development of petrochemical and oil refining facilities in Azerbaijan "," New trends in the development, processing and transportation of liquefied gases. "

Presentations will be made more than 50 speakers. In total, announced their participation of about 600 delegates. The conference program included performances SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev, the head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia, a special envoy of the UK's trade with Azerbaijan Charles Hendry, the Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources of Turkmenistan Annageldy Mammetyazov, Director General of the Department of Europe, America and the Caspian countries, the Ministry of Petroleum of the Islamic Republic of Iran Huseyn Esmaeili Shahmirzadeh, director of the International Centre for Defense Studies, Matthew Bryza. Their reports read out from universities Oxford and Tripoli, Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, a member of the OSCE office in Azerbaijan, etc.

At the conference this year recorded a record number of sponsors - 23 companies. -0 -