India spreads its net for gas, any gas

While efforts are under way to seal nuclear deals with the US and France to generate electricity, India’s efforts to tie up gas resources as another alternative to fossil fuels have gathered momentum.

Following the decision by Myanmar to supply gas to China, India is now making swift maneuvers to ensure that the US$1 billion Myanmar-Bangladesh-India (MBI) gas pipeline materializes. And significantly, India has virtually decided to join the US-backed

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) pipeline, in part because of the geopolitical difficulties involved in the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline that Washington opposes.

Asia Times