The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future
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Historically in India, gas has not enjoyed the same strategic significance that oil has. 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.
“As India transits from a predominantly fossil fuel-based energy system, to one built on the pillars of decarbonisation and renewables, natural gas could be the ‘bridge fuel’. This book provides a seamless overview of the entire natural gas value chain and offers a policy roadmap to decision makers.’ – Vikram Singh Mehta
“Vikram Singh Mehta and all the contributors have made a seminal intervention in the debate and discourse on the making of India’s policy related to gas, by bringing together a veritable compendium of the who’s who of the gas sector, globally and in India. This volume puts together the encyclopaedic anthology of ‘everything you wanted to know about gas but were afraid to ask.” – Vijay Kelkar
Indian Express: India’s road to clean energy goes via natural gas
The Hindu BusinessLine: Book Review | Why gas is not just hot air
Financial Express: For a predominantly clean system, India must move forward incrementally and make natural gas the “next stop” in its energy journey
Scroll: A new book argues that natural gas is India’s best choice for moving away from coal and fossil fuels
MoneyControl: The Next Stop | How is natural gas pricing done in India?
Hindustan Times: Interview | Why India needs natural gas for a clean energy future.
Business Standard: Book Review | The great leap to clean energy
Mint: Book Review | Betting on natural gas as a ‘clean’ fossil fuel
DEW Journal: Book Review (Available in print copy)
FOREWORD – Vijay Kelkar
SECTION A: INTRODUCTION
Executive Summary and Policy Road Map – Vikram Singh Mehta
SECTION B: WHY GAS?
1. The ‘Green Fossil’ – Gurpreet Chugh
SECTION C: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
2. The Global Market: An Overview – Jean Baptiste Dubreuil, Akos Losz
3. Liquefied Natural Gas: Pricing And Evolution – Mike Fulwood, Tim Boersma
4. Liquefied Natural Gas Contracts: The Shifting Contours – Mike Fulwood, Tim Boersma
5. Regulatory Liberalization – Akshaya Koshy Mason
6. Technology and Its Impact – Samantha Gross, David Victor
7. Shipping Liquefied Natural Gas – Anita Odedra, Martin J. Houston
8. Liquefied Natural Gas: From the United States to the Indian Market – Martin Houston, Renee Pirrong
9. Australia LNG – Ian Cronshaw
10. Middle East LNG – Talmiz Ahmad
SECTION D: INDIA – THE CURRENT SETTING
DEMAND
10. Power: Laggard Penetration? – Mohit Bhargava, Kishore Kumar Hota
11. Power: Niche potential? – Rahul Tongia
12. City Gas Distribution: Emerging Potential? – Ashu Singhal, Rajeev Mathur
13. Fertilizers: A Regulatory Dilemma? – Ashok Gulati, Pritha Banerjee
14. The Petrochemical and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Sectors – Amit Mehta
15. Transport: A Substitute Fuel? – Gautham Babu Dasari, Sarah Khoo
SUPPLY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
16. Domestic Production – Rajeev Kumar
17. Pipeline Network – Ashu Singhal, Rajeev Mathur
18. LNG Regasification Terminals – Prabhat Singh
COMMERCIAL
19. Pricing: A Complex Evolution – Anupama Sen
20. Taxation – Neetu Vinayek, Santosh Sonar, Hiten Sutar
SECTION E: REGULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
21. Regulatory Framework – Sudha Mahalingam
22. Clean Fuels: Managing The Transition – Robert van der Geest, Simon Stolp, Frank van Oordt, Michael Stanley
23. Decarbonization: Models For Sharpening the Trajectory – Ajay Mathur, Souvik Bhattacharjya, Karan Mangotra, Nitin Bajpai
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