Caspian gas conference opens in Baku
BAKU – Azeri capital will host an international gas conference on Wednesday to be joined by officials and energy executives from a number of countries.
The two-day event, Gas Infrastructure World Caspian 2010, will focus on the crucial role of the Caspian Sea in attaining long-term energy security; expanding pipeline production capacity to meet global demands; infrastructure, logistics and transportation; as well as opportunities for cooperation. Participants in the conference, to be organized by the international media company Terrapinn, will also explore tapping into new capacities; advancing the export of Caspian gas with help from the region’s transit countries; and investments in the Caspian region.
The conference will be attended, among others, by representatives of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Industry and Energy, state oil company SOCAR, Georgia's Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri, the adviser for Kazakh KazMunaiGas CEO Ross Stobie, Managing Director of Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH Reinhard Mitschek, and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project’s Managing Director Kjetil Tungland.
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