Event report

10th Annual conference

DOWNSTREAM CENTRAL ASIA AND CASPIAN

13-14 September 2023, Almaty

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EVENT REPORT 2022

9th Edition

32% Project owners - Central Asia

366 Participants

60% Regular attendees

21 Partners

95% Satisfaction rate

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In 2022, the 9th annual conference was held once again in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent with the national oil and gas company of Uzbekistan - Uzbekneftegaz - as a Lead partner.

The key topics were downstream projects and petrochemical products in Central Asia, project financing challenges, digitalisation, new technologies and decarbonization of the energy sector.

EVENT PARTNERS

32% Project owners - Central Asia

13% Engineering & EPC

11% Service providers

10% Technology providers

8% Equipment providers

6% Financial (Banks & Investments)

5% Technology licensors

4% Petrochemical / Refineries (not CA)

4% Consulting

3% Governmental agencies

8% Other

23% C-Level

19% Sales & Business Development

14% Operations & Logistics

13% Research & Development

12% Engineering

10% Finances

9% Marketing, PR & Communication

KEY TAKEAWAYS & TOPICS IN FOCUS

The growth of petrochemical production
and the integration of downstream assets
(oil refining and petrochemistry) is
expected worldwide, which will make it
possible to achieve improvements in
various directions.

The oil and gas industry is at the stage of transformation. Unlike the previous revolutionary changes in the industry, “decarbonisation” will radically change the “rules of the game” and create both new challenges and opportunities.

In Central Asian countries, government involvement in financing the downstream projects will decrease, and the industry needs to focus on attracting more foreign investment. One of the key criteria for attracting investments is the implementation of ESG aspects.

These and other projects of the region were presented at the conference.

Projects such as Uzbekistan GTL, KPI polypropylene production plant and modernization of the Heydar Aliyev Refinery (HAOR) have been completed in the region.

Uzbekneftegaz presented its promising projects, SOCAR spoke about the key figures and the main challenges of the modernization project and Samruk Kazyna Ondeu shared about the company’s future plans and directions of development of the chemical industry in Kazakhstan.