
India will drive up to 35% of global energy demand growth over the next 20 years, petroleum minister Hardeep Puri said at the Gastech conference that started on Tuesday in Houston. “If you say that global demand is increasing by one percent, ours is increasing by three times that,” Puri said. “In the next two decades, 35% of the increase in global demand will come from India.” At the same time, the official said that India wants to succeed with the energy transition as well. “We will manage and succeed…on the…