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+<br>The current discoveries of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA might have distorted crucial oil projections under extreme U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers hardly ever come forward to advance their professions), a slow-burning thermonuclear surge on future worldwide oil production. The Bush administration's actions in pushing the IEA to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of discovering new reserves have the possible to throw governments' long-term planning into mayhem.<br>
+<br>Whatever the reality, increasing long term international needs appear specific to overtake production in the next decade, particularly provided the high and rising costs of developing brand-new super-fields such as Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan and Brazil's southern Atlantic Jupiter and Carioca fields, which will need billions in investments before their first barrels of oil are produced.<br>
+<br>In such a circumstance, additives and substitutes such as biofuels will play an ever-increasing role by stretching beleaguered production quotas. As market forces and rising costs drive this innovation to the leading edge, among the richest prospective production locations has been completely ignored by investors up to now [- Central](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) Asia. Formerly the USSR's cotton "plantation," the region is poised to end up being a major player in the production of biofuels if enough foreign financial investment can be procured. Unlike Brazil, where [biofuel](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) is produced largely from sugarcane, or the United States, where it is primarily distilled from corn, Central Asia's ace resource is a native plant, Camelina sativa.<br>
+<br>Of the former Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian republics, those clustered around the coasts of the Caspian, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have seen their economies boom because of record-high energy rates, while Turkmenistan is waiting in the wings as an increasing producer of natural gas.<br>
+<br>Farther to the east, in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, geographical seclusion and relatively little hydrocarbon resources relative to their Western [Caspian next-door](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) neighbors have actually mostly prevented their capability to money in on increasing international energy demands already. Mountainous Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan stay largely dependent for their electrical requirements on their Soviet-era hydroelectric facilities, but their increased need to create winter electricity has actually resulted in autumnal and winter water discharges, in turn severely affecting the farming of their western downstream neighbors Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.<br>
+<br>What these 3 downstream countries do have nevertheless is a Soviet-era tradition of agricultural production, which in Uzbekistan's and Turkmenistan case was mostly directed towards cotton production, while Kazakhstan, starting in the 1950s with Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" programs, has become a major manufacturer of wheat. Based on my conversations with Central Asian federal government officials, given the thirsty needs of cotton monoculture, foreign propositions to diversify agrarian production towards [biofuel](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) would have fantastic appeal in Astana, Ashgabat and Tashkent and to a lower degree Astana for those durable financiers happy to wager on the future, particularly as a plant native to the area has actually currently shown itself in trials.<br>
+<br>Known in the West as incorrect flax, wild flax, linseed dodder, German sesame and Siberian oilseed, camelina is bring in increased scientific interest for its oleaginous qualities, with numerous European and American companies already examining how to produce it in commercial amounts for [biofuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd). In January Japan Airlines carried out a historical test flight utilizing camelina-based bio-jet fuel, becoming the very first Asian provider to [explore](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) flying on fuel obtained from sustainable feedstocks during a one-hour demonstration flight from [Tokyo's Haneda](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) Airport. The test was the culmination of a 12-month examination of camelina's operational efficiency ability and possible commercial viability.<br>
+<br>As an alternative energy source, camelina has much to suggest it. It has a high oil content low in hydrogenated fat. In contrast to Central Asia's thirsty "king cotton," camelina is drought-resistant and unsusceptible to spring freezing, requires less fertilizer and herbicides, and can be utilized as a rotation crop with wheat, which would make it of particular interest in Kazakhstan, now Central Asia's major wheat exporter. Another benefit of camelina is its tolerance of poorer, less fertile conditions. An acre sown with camelina can produce as much as 100 gallons of oil and when planted in rotation with wheat, camelina can increase wheat production by 15 percent. A load (1000 kg) of camelina will [consist](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) of 350 kg of oil, of which pressing can extract 250 kg. Nothing in camelina production is squandered as after processing, the plant's particles can be utilized for animals silage. Camelina silage has a particularly appealing concentration of omega-3 fatty acids that make it an especially fine livestock feed candidate that is simply now gaining recognition in the U.S. and Canada. Camelina is quick growing, produces its own natural herbicide (allelopathy) and completes well against weeds when an even crop is established. According to Britain's Bangor University's Centre for Alternative Land Use, "Camelina might be a perfect low-input crop ideal for bio-diesel production, due to its lower requirements for nitrogen fertilizer than oilseed rape."<br>
+<br>Camelina, a branch of the mustard household, is indigenous to both Europe and [Central Asia](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) and barely a new crop on the scene: archaeological evidence indicates it has been cultivated in Europe for a minimum of 3 millennia to produce both veggie oil and animal fodder.<br>
+<br>Field trials of production in Montana, presently the center of U.S. [camelina](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) research, revealed a wide variety of outcomes of 330-1,700 lbs of seed per acre, with oil material differing in between 29 and 40%. Optimal seeding rates have actually been determined to be in the 6-8 lb per acre range, as the seeds' little size of 400,000 seeds per pound can develop problems in germination to attain an optimum plant density of around 9 plants per sq. ft.<br>
+<br>Camelina's potential might enable Uzbekistan to start breaking out of its most dolorous legacy, the imposition of a cotton monoculture that has deformed the nation's attempts at agrarian reform because attaining self-reliance in 1991. Beginning in the late 19th century, the Russian federal government determined that [Central Asia](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) would become its cotton plantation to feed Moscow's growing textile industry. The process was sped up under the Soviets. While Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and [Turkmenistan](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) were also bought by Moscow to sow cotton, Uzbekistan in [specific](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) was singled out to produce "white gold."<br>
+<br>By the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union had become self-sufficient in cotton