India's Decision Making on Cross-Border Natural Gas Pipelines (1989-2012)

Kulkarni, Sanket Sudhir (2016) India's Decision Making on Cross-Border Natural Gas Pipelines (1989-2012). Strategic Analysis, 40 (5). pp. 405-424.

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Abstract: In the last two decades, cross-border gas pipelines have become an integral part of discourse on India’s energy security. Successive reports from the government and the private sector have envisaged an important role for cross-border gas pipeline projects in India. After engaging in negotiations for several years, the Indian Government finally joined the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline over the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline (IPI) and the Myanmar– Bangladesh–India pipeline (MBI). Several critics of this project have questioned this decision of the Indian Government to join TAPI due to the huge levels of risks involved and the project’s commercial unviability. The article is an attempt to understand the decision-making process of the Indian Government on cross-border gas pipeline projects and its rationale for choosing a seemingly riskier project like the TAPI pipeline and letting go of the other two pipeline projects. The article makes an attempt to conduct a detailed discussion around such factors that contributed to India’s decision making on these projects.
Item Type: Journal Paper
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Subjects: School of Natural and Engineering Sciences > Energy
Doctoral Programme > PhD Scholar Publications
Programmes > Energy and Environment Programme
Divisions: Schools > Natural Sciences and Engineering
Date Deposited: 09 Aug 2016 07:17
Last Modified: 03 Jul 2021 18:53
Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/097001...
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    Funders: UNSPECIFIED
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    DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2016.1209907
    URI: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1154

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