India Is Intensifying Its Search for Oil and Gas as Import Pressure Builds

India needs more local discoveries of oil and gas in order to be able to meet future energy demand, the secretary of petroleum and natural gas at the Indian energy ministry said. “One day, we will be looking at a situation where alternative forms of energy will increasingly matter more for incremental demand satisfaction than fossil fuels,” Pankaj Jain said, as quoted by PTI. In the immediate term, however, India needs to boost its self-reliance in energy by making new oil and gas discoveries, leveraging cutting-edge exploration technology…