India’s Quest for Energy Through Oil and Natural Gas

India’s Quest for Energy Through Oil and Natural Gas
Author: Sanjay Kumar Pradhan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811552207
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This book analyzes energy security through the lens of oil and natural gas and explains how geopolitics and security challenges affect India’s quest for energy security. It also offers insights into India’s international trade and investment in the overseas oil and natural gas markets and discusses shale energy, adopting region-specific (Africa, West Asia, Central Asia, and LAC), country-specific (Russia and the US), maritime-specific (Arctic and South China Sea), and pipeline-specific (TAPI, MBI, IPI, and RCI) approaches to analyze India’s oil and natural gas trade and investment abroad. The introductory chapter examines energy perspectives in international relations and conceptualizes energy geopolitics and energy security from both international and Indian standpoints. The book also highlights the similarities and differences in the issues involved in the global oil and natural gas market, and India’s approach to these, offering a roadmap for holistic and integrated energy security through oil and natural gas. Since India’s energy trade and investment in the international oil and natural gas market are not free from the effects of political instability, corruption, environment crisis, militancy, terrorism, war, and geopolitical involvement and interference, the book investigates the nature and extent of the security threats and competition India faces in the oil and natural gas-producing countries while pursuing its trade and investments there. As major sources of energy, oil and natural gas are strategic assets, and energy security is one of the core areas of India’s foreign policy pursuits. As such, the chapters critically assess India’s energy policy and resource diplomacy, providing analyses of the issues raised, identifying the central arguments and presenting existing cooperations – with past examples where necessary. The book appeals to scholars and policymakers active in the fields of energy, political science, international relations, economics, foreign policy, peace and conflict, security and geopolitics, as well as non-experts interested in this topic.

India, the Emerging Energy Player

India, the Emerging Energy Player
Author: Girijesh Pant
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788177581560
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"India: The Emerging Energy Player" attempts to profile India's energy relations in the global context and fathom the issues it is facing in defending its energy interests in the changing world market. The nature of India's engagement with the Gulf, Iran, Russia, and Africa, and its understanding of the perceived competition are the major concerns of the book. It will be useful for academics, policy planners, and opinion makers not only in India but abroad as well.

India's Energy Security

India's Energy Security
Author: Ligia Noronha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134033001
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This book explores the multifaceted aspects of India’s energy security concerns. Bringing together a set of opinions and analysis from experts and policymakers, it sheds light on the context of India’s energy insecurity and explores its various dimensions, its nature and extent. Contributors examine the role that trade, foreign and security policy should play in enhancing India’s energy security. It is argued that the key challenge for India is to increase economic growth while at the same time keeping energy demands low. This is especially challenging with the transition from biomass to fossil fuels, the growth of motorized private transport, and rising incomes, aspirations and changing lifestyles. The book suggests that at this time there are strong arguments to lessen the fossil fuel path dependence and it argues for a need to engage with all the key sources of this dependence to implement a process of energy change. India’s Energy Security is a timely contribution given the national and international interest in the issue of energy security and the possibility that energy concerns have the potential of becoming the cause of serious international conflicts. It will be of interest to academics and policy makers working in the field of Asian Studies, Energy Policy, International Relations and Security Studies.

THE NEXT STOP

THE NEXT STOP
Author: Vikram Singh Mehta
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2021-05-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 939032744X
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Historically in India, gas has not enjoyed the same strategic significance as oil. That picture is gradually changing. India imports 82 per cent of its oil needs and aims to bring that down to 67 per cent by 2022 by replacing it with local exploration and alternative energy sources. Natural gas is set to play a key role, with ambitious plans to increase its share in the energy mix from 6.5 per cent to 15 per cent. Increasing natural gas usage can also help India overcome several challenges such as meeting its development objectives, fulfilling mitigation efforts on the climate change front, providing energy security while reducing fiscal imbalance and so on. Needless to say, it will also have a significant bearing on India's geopolitics. Edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, an authority in the energy domain, and with essays by a number of global experts, this anthology lays out a comprehensive roadmap for India's natural gas sector by analysing supply, demand, infrastructure, pricing, regulations, finance, technology, policy and a host of other issues. The Next Stop is an essential overview of the country's emerging energy sector in the twenty-first century

China and India

China and India
Author: Hong Zhao
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351572016
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The book sheds understanding on the relations between development and global energy security by looking at China and India. It addresses the following issues: what is the new definition of energy security? How does it affect global politics and international relations? What are the energy security concerns of China and India, and what policies and approaches have they taken to deal with energy security issues? Since China and India are searching for oil and gas in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia, would their acquisition efforts conflict with the interests of other energy giants such as the U.S., Japan, and would their growing overseas activities challenge U.S. policy in those energy-rich regions?The book provides insight into what the new global energy order may be and how the growth models and energy structures may shape the economic growth and energy. It analyzes both the state-centered approach and market-oriented approach in the global quest for energy resources. It also examines how China and India can adopt a cooperative approach for beneficial relations. The book will be of interest to anyone who is keen to learn how the World especially U.S.A. can accomodate and adapt to the new global energy dynamics and on China and India as new players in global energy markets.

India and the Changing Geopolitics of Oil

India and the Changing Geopolitics of Oil
Author: Amit Bhandari
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2021-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000516075
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The global energy scenario has transformed in the past 20 years. Oil demand, earlier driven by the West, is now shifting to the East, more specifically to Asia. New oil supplies from North America have challenged the hegemony of the traditional oil exporters from West Asia and Africa. India, once a marginal player in the world oil market, is now a valued customer providing demand security for oil exporters. This book systematically examines India’s oil and gas trade, which makes it the world’s third largest importer of oil after China and the US. It explores the changing patterns of oil demand and supply, and the growing market for natural gas, renewable energy, biofuel, and alternative sources of energy. Further, the volume discusses a range of issues that affect India’s position in the global energy econom,y such as The geographic shifts in energy production and trade; international relations and economic sanctions that affect the oil trade; India’s quest for energy security; and contest with China for oil assets; Building new partnerships, and investing in stable, oil-rich countries like the US and Canada, while keeping up existing energy relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait; Using market mechanisms to ensure energy security. Topical and comprehensive, this book in The Gateway House Guide to India in the 2020s series will be useful for scholars and researchers of international relations, geopolitics, foreign policy, security and strategic studies, energy studies, West Asia studies, South Asian studies, and international trade. It will also be of interest to policymakers, diplomats, career bureaucrats, and professionals working with think tanks, academia and multilateral agencies, media agencies, and businesses.

India's Energy Security

India's Energy Security
Author: S. Rajeev
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:
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The story of India's search for energy security may be summarized as: a late start, lots of catching up to do. India's planners have realized that rapid economic growth, which has begun to be taken for granted by the public, depends on the availability of energy. Coupled with the single-minded and successful efforts of the other big emerging nation, China, in locking up energy supplies, the realization dawned that India needed to redouble its own efforts. The result has been a number of efforts to tie up supplier relationships around the globe in a variety of areas: oil, natural gas, nuclear, and also hydro-electric power from neighbors. Unfortunately, these efforts have not been as successful as China's efforts. In the medium term, it still appears as though India is going to be dependent on external sources of supply of hydrocarbons for its energy needs. There is perhaps a lack of strategic intent. There is no clearly-articulated idea that energy is something that Indian fully intends to capture, whatever the cost. Therefore, India's energy security does not look very assured, and the Chinese are considerably more successful in their quest for energy. If there are no major oil and gas finds in Indian territorial waters, India may be forced down a perilous path that includes a massive increase in the use of coal - with the attendant environmental issues - as well as increasing dependence on nuclear power. On the other hand, if there are some technological breakthroughs in alternative energy, India may be rescued from its predicament.

India's Energy Security

India's Energy Security
Author: Lt Col Dhall
Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9382652159
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This book explores the multifaceted aspects of India's energy security concerns. It sheds light on India's energy insecurity and explores its various dimensions, its nature and extent. It examines the role that trade, foreign and security policy should play in enhancing India's energy security. It is argued that the key challenge for India is to increase economic growth while at the same time keeping energy demands low. This is especially challenging with the transition from biomass to fossil fuels, the growth of the motorized private transport and rising incomes, aspirations and changing lifestyles. The book suggests that at this time there are strong arguments to lessen India's fossil fuel dependence and it argues for a need to engage with all the key sources of this dependence to implement a process of energy change.

India's Emerging Energy Relations

India's Emerging Energy Relations
Author: Girijesh Pant
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8132225031
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This book analyzes the role of energy in Indian foreign policy, particularly in defining bilateral relations. It also focuses on the critical gaps in conceptualizing its formulations and recommends a framework for sustainable energy security. India, the fourth largest consumer of oil, is an energy-deficit economy, importing more than eighty percent of its needs. This makes securing energy integral to its foreign policy goals. Obviously it is important for India to actively participate in the global energy market and establish robust, enduring and nuanced diplomatic relations with energy exporting countries. Equally important is that India diversifies its energy mix and moves towards carbon-free growth. Renewable energy is today high on the global energy agenda. Indian energy policy thus has to address a range of issues, domestically and on foreign turf. It has to move beyond the transactional mode by creating equity in the global energy industry. Today, the global energy regime is undergoing fundamental changes, as is the power dynamics of the global energy order. There are now many new producers and diverse consumers. The trade in energy has increased in volume and its direction has shifted from the West to the East, and the ongoing structural changes in the energy market call for a new security architecture. Given the complex and competitive environment of the new geo-economics and geopolitics of energy, the question could well be, should India frame energy issues in conflict mode or move toward innovative cooperation? In either case the message is that India needs an integrated energy security policy.

A Hundred Years of Oil

A Hundred Years of Oil
Author: S. N. Visvanath
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House Private
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:
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