Deepwater exploration – for a secure energy future
20.05.12
If there is one word that characterises world energy markets over the last few years, it is “volatility”. It is reasonable to say that this volatility is going to be with us for some time to come. There are many reasons for this, but mostly, it comes down to simple supply and demand – with the latter growing more steeply and steadier than the former.
According to “BP Energy Outlook 2030” published in January 2011, in 20 years the world will require 40 per cent more energy than it consumes today. Interestingly, over 90 per cent of this growth is expected to come, not from long-established economies such as the US or in Europe or the developed countries, but from emerging economies such as India and China as we transform our economies and improve standards of living.
Energy consumption in India has nearly trebled over the past 20 years and is likely to be more than double over the next 20 years, growing at an average rate of over 4 per cent year. For a country like India, which now imports nearly 75 per cent of its oil and over 35 per cent of its total energy requirements and is projected to import over 45 per cent of its total energy by 2030, every drop of oil and every molecule of gas we can produce in India is going to make a difference.
Source: Hindu Business Line