Kelkar panel to set up roadmap for country’s energy security

19 Mar 2013 Evaluate

A committee has been set up by the Petroleum Ministry to boost the domestic production of oil and gas and help India to achieve energy security by 2030. This committee is headed by the former Finance secretary Vijay Kelkar.

The panel will submit its recommendations in six months and will consider various options like enhancing domestic production of oil and gas from the unconventional energy sources, institutional mechanism for appraisal of Indian sedimentary basins to the extent of 75% by 2015 and 100% by 2025. Recommendations will also consider diplomatic and political initiatives, to import gas and other oil products across neighbouring countries. Emphasis would be on building trans-national gas pipelines.

The main aim of the panel will be focus to recommend steps to explore better opportunities in unconventional energy resources like shale gas and carbon sequestration under sea. Presently, India is a partner with the US and several other countries to exploit under-sea hydrocarbon deposits, through carbon sequestration technologies for which worldwide research is underway through pilot projects.    

India, the world’s fourth largest energy consuming nation, over 80 per cent of domestic energy requirem­ents are met through import of oil and gas products, while, the idea is to scale it down to 50 per cent or lower in 17 years. The country trails the US, China and Russia, accounting for 4.4% of global energy consumption. India’s energy demand is expected to more than double by 2035, from present around 700 million tonnes of oil equivalent M T to around 1,500 M T.

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