West Asia wake-up call: here’s what India should do to address its energy vulnerability on the double

Second, given that this is often described as the ‘gas century,’ we must plan for route redundancy and gas infrastructure. In that 1996 lecture, I had argued in favour of a cross-country gas network to provide a safety net for energy security, and for pursuing import options, including an offshore deep-water India-Oman pipeline, with Oman as a hub and gas sourced from multiple Gulf producers, thus supplementing other routes.