No surprise that India has been beaten by China for oil exploration bids in Myanmar, Kazakhstan and elsewhere over the past few years. With serious shortages and blackouts seriously affecting and threatening India’s economic growth, India is looking to Africa, South America, Pakistan, and elsewhere for new supplies.
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India Looks to Africa for Oil
Posted in Gas, India, Myanmar, Oil, Pakistan, Transportation on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Asia’s tigers eye nuclear future
Posted in ADB, Australia, China, Clean Energy, Hydro, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Legislation, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nuclear, Philippines, Singapore, Solar, Thailand, Vietnam on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
February 15, 2008 (Asia Times) – The 2005-07 spike in petroleum prices topping out at US$100 a barrel has prodded economic planners across the globe to reconsider their energy options in an age of growing concern over global warming and carbon emissions. The Southeast Asian economies, beneficiaries of an oil and gas export bonanza through [...]
Planting Seeds of Biofuel Where Little Else Grows
Posted in Biofuels, India, Jatropha, Myanmar, Philippines on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
October 29, 2007 (IHT) – Until recently, Jatropha Curcas, a tall bush with highly toxic fruit and bark, was mainly used as a hedge plant to keep livestock away from crops. But amid soaring prices for traditional biofuel feedstock, including palm oil, the nuts from the perennial bush are now being eyed as a possible [...]
Jatropha Spreading Regionally
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Clean Energy, Myanmar, Renewable Energy on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
August 29, 2007 (EnergyCurrent.com) – MYANMAR: Myanmar plans to cultivate jatropha on 7 million acres of land as feedstock for biodiesel plants around the country as part of a move to diversify into alternative energy sources, Director General of the Energy Department U Soe Myint said at a forum held in Singapore.Each of the seven [...]
