The document discusses Asia's energy landscape and challenges. It notes the different regions in Asia and debates whether Asia will be unipolar or multipolar. The Middle East wants to diversify its economy beyond oil and work with Asia and Europe. Big questions remain around how countries like India, China and Japan will meet growing energy needs. Challenges include reforms, funding, and cooperation. Most countries will prioritize their own interests, and effective Asian energy cooperation will be difficult until questions over regional power are addressed. Independent initiatives and partnerships can help secure energy for growth.

1. by
Narendra Taneja

2. SEVERAL ASIAS
•Arab Asia
•Other Islamic Countries / Central Asia
•Secular / Other Asia
•Confucian Asia
•OECD / “Western” Asia

3. •Unipolar Asia or Multipolar Asia – A Million
Battles Within
•Is the idea of “One Asia” worth pursuing in this
age of Globalization?
•The Asian Century ?

4. ASIAN ENERGY LANDSCAPE
•The Middle East and India drawing closer into
a historic partnership
•China works on a new Middle East strategy
and roadmap
•IOCs, the West and the Middle East
•IOCs and NOCs in the Central Asia
•The Golden Age of Gas
• King Coal
• Nuclear power here to stay and grow
• Prince Solar

5. MIDDLE EAST FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
•The Middle East oil and gas giants want to build
a secure future beyond oil
•Need Asian markets as well as the Western
technology, knowhow and financial expertise
•The Middle East best placed to work as the
bridge to Africa for both Asia and Europe

6. BIG QUESTIONS?
•How will Japan meet all of its energy needs?
•Will India and China cooperate to secure their
energy needs and future?
•Will desperate India, China, South
Korea, Japan and the United States join hands
to form an “OPEC” of oil importing countries?
• Will the ever-going Great Oil Game get dirtier?
•Is nuclear power more about the “other nuclear
power”?
•Wars-over-oil to wars-over-“nuclear power”

7. TAILWINDS
•Youth, technology and new global values
bringing nations closer like never before
•Trade and commerce within the Asian regions
growing despite differences, constraints and
confrontations
•It is all about rising aspirations and better life all
across Asia today
•Emergence of Asia as the Centre of the World
now unstoppable
•Asia home to fastest growing energy companies
and markets in the world

8. CHALLENGES
•Doubts over future of nuclear power
•Slow energy industry and market reforms in
countries such as India
•Lack of sufficient funds for renewable R&D
•Rise of state capitalism
•Poor state of NOCs and power / energy utilities
in several countries

9. •Widespread energy poverty and energy
illiteracy
•Rising civil unrest, poor governance and
corruption
• Half-hearted efforts to promote regional
cooperation in most parts of Asia

10. CONCLUSIONS
•Most countries will be driven only by their own
energy interests and goals
•G20, BRICS and other such platforms will
attract more attention of India and China than
any regional setting/s
•No effective Asian energy cooperation order
buildable until all manoeuvres over whether it
will be a unipolar Asia or multipolar one settled
first

11. •Rapid globalization, emergence of India and
China on the global high-table and rising
Western “fears” involving China leading to new
divides on the one hand and new energy
alliances on the other

12. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
•Launch as many independent energy
cooperation initiatives as possible
•Build energy bridges and coalitions with all
like-minded countries to secure energy for
growth and prosperity
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