The 23rd International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition kicked off in Baku.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the exhibition.

"Caspian Oil & Gas" project is supported by the Ministry of Energy and SOCAR. This year, Belgium, China, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and other countries are participating in the exhibition. In turn, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany have presented their national stands.

This year, as new participants from the UK, Portugal, Romania, the US and others, foreign companies have joined to the exhibition.

The general sponsor of the exhibition is traditionally "SOCAR", the Gold Sponsors of "BP" and "Petronas" companies, Silver Sponsors of the "Bos Shelf" company. Among the other sponsors, "Azeri M-I Drilling", "AZFEN JV", "Caspian Marine Services", "Global Energy", "SOCAR Polymer", "Tekfen Construction" companies.

240 companies from 30 countries participate in this year's Caspian Oil and Gas exhibition.