Alkagesta took part in the second Annual Central Asia Oil & Gas Forum in Tashkent on 15–16 October, according to a report published by the company. Javid Guliyev, its CIS Regional Trader, represented the business throughout the two-day event. The gathering brought together energy executives, policymakers and investors to discuss changes affecting Central Asian energy markets, including logistics, regulation and the region’s place in global energy security.
The company said the forum’s 2026 programme focused on strengthening cooperation between regional energy markets and improving supply chains. Its agenda included oil and gas resources, approaches to production, cross-border trade routes and logistics infrastructure. For a gathering concerned with the region’s energy development, those subjects placed both upstream supply and the movement of commodities across borders within the scope of discussion.
Refining capacity and access to markets were also on the programme, alongside investment, risk management and public-private partnerships across Central Asia. Alkagesta presented the event as an opportunity to discuss the challenges and prospects arising from changing trade corridors and the region’s growing participation in international supply chains. Its account described the breadth of the agenda rather than detailing conclusions from individual sessions or agreements reached by participants.
Alkagesta linked its attendance to Central Asia’s importance within its wider regional business. The company said it has an active presence in CIS markets and a petroleum-products trading platform covering approximately 48 countries. That footprint was the commercial context it gave for participating in the Tashkent discussions. While the report highlighted routes, infrastructure and market access, it supplied no prices, freight rates or cargo volumes. It therefore offers a statement of regional trading priorities, rather than evidence of a change in east–west differentials or freight-adjusted trading economics.