India and the Global Game of Gas Pipelines

Gulshan Dietl is former Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she also served as the Director of the Gulf Studies Programme and the Chairperson of the Centre for West Asian and African Studies. She was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York (1993–1994), Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998–1999), Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir (2004), Associate Director of Research at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008), Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (2010), Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2012–2013) and ICSSR Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (2013–2015).

• ContentsList of figures Abbreviations Introduction PART I Resource and routes 1 Natural gas: geology, geography and markets 2 Gas pipeline: commodity, container and carrier PART II The gas troika 3 Iran: gas pipelines under/after sanctions 4 Russia: an energy superpower? 5 Turkmenistan: pawn and player in the game of the chessPART III The home truths 6 India: not a single transnational pipeline yet Conclusions: legacy, leads and lessons Bibliography Index

‘The great gas game is afoot, and its consequences are vital for India’s energy security . . . Gulshan Dietl covers largely unchartered territory by analysing the pipeline politics of gas from the Persian Gulf to South Asia.’Luke Pate, Danish Institute for International Studies and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ‘Dietl’s foray into gas pipelines and their geopolitics is a timely effort that will benefit scholars grappling with a complex subject like energy security . . . The book fills a vacuum in the literature on energy security.’ Sudha Mahalingam, independent energy consultant and former energy regulator