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Ashgabat’s oil and gas week opens on Wednesday with 1,700 delegates and TAPI on the agenda

The 31st Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan conference and exhibition, OGT 2026, runs in Ashgabat from 21 to 23 October with more than 1,700 registered delegates from 75 countries representing 450 companies, the state portal reported on Saturday 17 October. The Galkynysh field, the gas-transport network, the TAPI pipeline, Caspian cooperation and gas processing head the programme as the portal lists it.

By CAW Staff19 October 2026
Gas-processing columns and pipe racks in a flat desert at dawn.

Fifteen countries are named among the participants: China, Malaysia, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Malaysia brings its first national pavilion, organised with the Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corporation, and more than 20 Malaysian companies.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 21 October in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry building, preliminary meetings start on Tuesday 20 October, and a B2B platform and round tables on energy cooperation and training sit beside the plenary sessions. Methane-emission cuts and the digitalisation of the industry are on the list of topics.

Malaysia brings its first national pavilion, organised with the Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corporation, and more than 20 Malaysian companies.

The portal’s post announces no signing and prints no sum.

The cabinet sitting of Saturday 17 October, held in digital format, heard a deputy prime minister on the preparations and the foreign minister on the C5+1 meeting in Samarkand on Monday, the portal reported the same evening.

This is the 31st edition, which the portal counts as three decades of the forum.

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