India’s annual electricity demand in 2019 grew at its slowest pace in six years, according to the CEA, amid a broader economic slowdown that resulted in a fall in sales of everything from cars to cookies, prompting some large-scale industries such as the automobile sector to slash jobs.

In January 2020 India commissioned its sixth liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, Mundra LNG

Russia's Sibanthracite group aims to boost the annual export capacity of Russian coals to 100 million mt with newly launched infrastructure project to build the second tunnel on Baikal Amur Mainline railway.

The delegation of a dozen people representing the US industry and government was in India on 10-14 February to explore opportunities.

Pakistan aims for a significant expansion of its use of nuclear power over the coming decades

India’s national transmission grid must urgently modernise to increase the rate of renewable energy adoption

Rosneft Oil Company and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) signed a contract to supply up to 2 million tonnes of oil to India via the port of Novorossiysk by the end of 2020.

India’s coal import increased by 7.6 per cent to 185.88 million tonnes (MT) in the April-December period of the current fiscal.

Petronet will invest the money over a five-year period in Tellurian’s proposed $27.5 billion Driftwood LNG export project in Louisiana and the deal will give Petronet an equity stake in the project and rights for up to 5 million tonnes a year of LNG,

Kazakhstan’s recovery has continued, with growth in the first nine months of 2019 reaching 4.3 percent. High domestic demand driven by major oil and gas investments and government and household consumption supported by wage increases and consumer lending has underpinned the economy’s strong performance.

In November 2019, Coal India decided to advance its coal production target of 1 Gt/year by two years, from 2026 to 2024.

"The UAE is currently investing over US$ 2 billion in Kazakhstan, which makes it one of the top sources for Foreign Direct Investments."

Tajikistan's economic activity has been strong in 2018-19.

expects India's oil demand to grow by 170,000 b/d in 2020, up from 155,000 b/in 2019.

The macroeconomic outlook is more subdued and uncertain than in recent years. India's economy growth is projected at 6.1 percent in FY2019/20. Investment and private consumption are expected to firm in the second half of the fiscal year.