Mains Syllabus: GS III - Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
Recently Union Energy Minister held meeting on energy reforms and infrastructure.
India is now the third largest energy and oil consumer, fourth-largest refiner, and fourth-largest LNG importer globally.
India’s energy demand is expected to grow two and a half times by 2047 and 25% of incremental global demand set to come from India.
India increased the number of its crude oil suppliers from 27 countries in 2006-07 to 39 in 2021-22, adding new suppliers like Columbia, Russia, Libya, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea etc.
The Indian crude basket is a derived blend comprising sour grade (Oman and Dubai average) and sweet grade (Brent Dated) crude oil, processed in domestic refineries, with the current ratio standing at 78.50:21.50.
National Seismic Programme (NSP) in India is a project to appraise sedimentary basins for hydrocarbon resources.
Mission Anveshan is a scheme to incentivize seismic surveys for mapping oil and gas deposits in India's sedimentary basins.
Airborne gravity gradiometry (AGG) measures the changes in the Earth's gravitational field as an aircraft flies over an area, providing detailed information about subsurface geological structures.
Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)’s green hydrogen unit in Assam is poised to become a first in the northeast.
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