Maritime Facets of energy Archives - National Maritime Foundation

INDIA’S GAS-BASED ECONOMY: A BRIDGE TO A TRANSITION OR A GATEWAY TO ENERGY INSECURITY?

Until the mid-twentieth century, natural gas was mostly treated as a by-product of crude oil and “flared” (burned as a waste product) during the recovery of the latter.[1] Restricted to meeting the lighting needs of the local community,…

ASSESSING INDIA’s “SECURITY-OF-ENERGY” IN THE FACE OF HYBRID WARFARE

In recent years, hybrid warfare has developed into a major regional and national threat, and threatens to become a global challenge. Hybrid warfare refers to a combination of conventional and unconventional warfare capabilities, used by non-State…

ROLE OF MARINE INSURANCE IN OIL POLLUTION IN INDIA

All too often, “the asserted divide between public and private international law suggests that the two occupy different, mutually exclusive domains. On the one hand, public international law comprises the legally binding rules and principles…

FLOATING OIL-STORAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY: PART-2

This is the concluding segment of a two-part article — published online by the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) on successive days — which seeks to analyse the manner in which the intersection of two extraordinary events, namely, the COVID-19…

FLOATING OIL-STORAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY — PART-1

The two parts over which this article has been penned seek to analyse the manner in which the intersection of two extraordinary events — the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil-price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia — produced a sequence of…

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 5: HYDROGEN-FUEL — THE OPTION-OF-CHOICE FOR INDIA

This is the fifth and final segment of the NMF’s five-part advocacy[1] of the adoption of hydrogen derived from Ocean Renewable Energy Resources (ORER) and the adoption of this hydrogen-fuel, instead of fossil-fuels, for India’s maritime-transport…

Energy Observer, launched in April 2017, is the first vessel in the world to both generate and be powered by hydrogen, relying on a renewable energy mix for onboard production.

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 4: HYDROGEN-FUEL FROM ‘ORER’ — A HYBRID SOLUTION FOR MARITIME ACTIVITY

This is the fourth and penultimate tranche of the NMF’s ongoing effort to provide Indian policy-makers with a compelling set of arguments to not only support ocean renewable energy resources (ORER) as an economically viable and ecologically…

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 3: OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY AS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE

This is the third tranche (Part 3) of an ongoing advocacy of the need for India to secure its future energy-security by effecting a transition away from fossil fuels. The various parts, taken in aggregate, seek to provide Indian policy-makers…

THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE SECURITY ARCHITECTURE OF THE PERSIAN GULF AND THE IMPACT OF THE CURRENT DUAL OIL-SHOCK ON REGIONAL STABILITY

Introduction The year 2020 is an epoch in modern history that stands not only for the fatal impact of the pandemic, but also for the disruption of societies and economies. The Gulf countries have been severely hit by the dual shocks of plunge…

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 2: GUIDING INDIA’s INEVITABLE TRANSITION TO THE REPLACEMENT OF FOSSIL-FUELS BY CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY

The succeeding paragraphs constitute the second part (Part 2) of a three-part advocacy of the need for India to secure its future energy-security by effecting a transition away from fossil fuels. The three parts, taken in aggregate, seek to…

Desh Ujala, India's biggest container vessel

ADOPTION BY INDIA OF HYDROGEN: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 1:GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE

GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE AS COMPELLING DRIVERS OF INDIA’S SHIFT TO RENEWABLE RESOURCES OF ENERGY This article is an integral part of the series of major research-studies on the maritime facets of India’s energy security,…

CRUDE-OIL STORAGE IN AN ERA OF PLENTY- Part 2: LESSONS FROM THE USA’s STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

This is the second in an ongoing series of articles by the author on issues relevant to the strategic storage of crude oil. Part 1 had focussed the reader’s attention upon the prevailing state of India’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve…