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The 8th international exhibition and conference Caspian Oil&Gas-2001 will be held in Baku June 5-8, as over 300 companies are going to take part. According to British Spearhead Exhibitions Ltd., organizer of the show, 30% of the companies, which represent 25 countries of the world, will participation in the traditional exhibition for the first time.

More than 40 people are registered to make presentations at the conference. The conference is co-chaired by SOCAR president Natiq Aliyev and Agip-Azerbaijan director for exploration and production Eros Agostinelli.

Presentations will be made concerning the innovations being applied in the Caspian, development of the oil and gas infrastructure in the region, etc.

Issues of regional cooperation will be touched upon on the last day of the conference by US, Iranian, British, Russian, Kazakh, and Japanese ambassadors.*