The 25 May inaugural ceremony was attended by Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, US Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and the chief executive of British Petroleum (BP), Lord John Browne.
Svečanom otvaranju naftovoda 25. svibnja nazočili su turski predsjednik Ahmet Necdet Sezer, azerbejdžanski predsjednik Ilham Aliyev, predsjednik Gruzije Mikheil Saakashvili, predsjednik Kazahstana Nursultan Nazarbayev, američki tajnik za energetiku Samuel Bodman i glavni ravnatelj British Petroleuma (BP), Lord John Browne.