On 10 March 2022, Dr. Elshan Abdullayev, Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Khazar University, held a meeting with Dr.Mathieu Schuster, a researcher from CNRS (University of Strasbourg), Dr. Guilherme Bozetti, an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg and Ms. Fidan Aslanzade, an oil and gas programme coordinator at French-Azerbaijani University (UFAZ).

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss possible collaboration between Khazar University and French institutions on studying depositional environments of the Productive Series Lower Pliocene of the western South Caspian Basin. In addition, the possibility of organizing a research team where scientists from the Khazar University, the University of Strasbourg and UFAZ can collaborate on geological modelling of the oil-gas fields in the western South Caspian basin was discussed.