Indian eyes alliance with China, Uzbekistan for oil assets

New Kerala November 26 In a bid to seek greater cooperation among the Asian nations for energy security, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today met representatives from China and Uzbekistan to boost the ongoing efforts towards developing an Asian oil and gas grid. A day after meeting of the ministerial round table on co-operation between North and Central Asian producers, Aiyar today called on Rustam Sodykovich Azimov, Foreign Economic Relations,Investement and Trade Minister of Uzbekistan and Chinese Ambassador Sun Yux. The meet came in the backdrop of India rallying to build bridges with Central Asian oil producers to secure energy supplies. "The BTC (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) is the most recent world class project involving more than one country. It has the entire documentation written in English, all of it is posted on the web so we don't have to get to these people. But it would be nice to hear what they have to say on the subject and then its for us to draw any lessons if we think there are any lessons to be drawn," said Aiyar. Addressing the second round table conference here on Friday, Aiyar had proposed to initiate a detailed scientific study to form Asian oil and gas grid.