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The current discoveries of a International Energy Administration [whistleblower](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) that the IEA might have distorted crucial oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if real (and come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future international oil production. The Bush administration's actions in pressing the IEA to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while [overplaying](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) the possibilities of discovering brand-new reserves have the prospective to toss federal [governments' long-term](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) planning into turmoil.
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Whatever the truth, rising long term worldwide demands seem specific to overtake production in the next years, especially given the high and rising costs of establishing new super-fields such as Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan and Brazil's southern [Atlantic](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) Jupiter and Carioca fields, which will need billions in investments before their very first barrels of oil are produced.
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In such a circumstance, additives and alternatives such as biofuels will play an ever-increasing function by stretching beleaguered production quotas. As market forces and rising prices drive this technology to the leading edge, among the wealthiest prospective production locations has been completely ignored by financiers already - Central Asia. Formerly the USSR's cotton "plantation," the area is poised to become a major player in the production of biofuels if sufficient foreign financial investment can be acquired. Unlike Brazil, where [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) is manufactured mainly from sugarcane, or the United States, where it is primarily distilled from corn, Central Asia's ace resource is an indigenous plant, Camelina sativa.
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Of the former Soviet Caucasian and [Central Asian](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) republics, those clustered around the coasts of the Caspian, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have seen their economies boom since of record-high energy rates, while Turkmenistan is waiting in the wings as an increasing manufacturer of natural gas.
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Farther to the east, in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, geographical seclusion and reasonably little hydrocarbon resources relative to their Western Caspian neighbors have mainly inhibited their capability to capitalize rising global energy demands up to now. Mountainous Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan stay mainly reliant for their electrical needs on their Soviet-era hydroelectric facilities, however their increased requirement to produce winter season electricity has actually resulted in autumnal and winter water discharges, in turn seriously impacting the farming of their western downstream next-door neighbors Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
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What these three downstream nations do have however is a Soviet-era legacy of farming production, which in Uzbekistan's and Turkmenistan case was largely [directed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) towards cotton production, while Kazakhstan, beginning in the 1950s with Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" programs, has ended up being a major producer of wheat. Based on my conversations with Central Asian government authorities, offered the thirsty needs of cotton monoculture, foreign proposals to diversify agrarian production towards [biofuel](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) would have great appeal in Astana, Ashgabat and Tashkent and to a lower extent Astana for those hardy investors going to wager on the future, specifically as a plant native to the region has actually currently proven itself in trials.
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Known in the West as false flax, wild flax, linseed dodder, German sesame and Siberian oilseed, camelina is drawing in increased scientific interest for its oleaginous qualities, with numerous European and American companies currently examining how to produce it in business quantities for [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL). In January Japan Airlines carried out a historic test flight using camelina-based bio-jet fuel, ending up being the first Asian provider to experiment with flying on fuel originated from sustainable feedstocks throughout a one-hour demonstration flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The test was the conclusion of a 12-month evaluation of camelina's functional efficiency capability and possible business practicality.
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As an alternative energy source, camelina has much to advise it. It has a high oil content low in saturated 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 specific interest in Kazakhstan, now Central Asia's major wheat exporter. Another reward of camelina is its tolerance of poorer, less fertile conditions. An acre planted 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 heap (1000 kg) of camelina will include 350 kg of oil, of which pressing can draw out 250 kg. Nothing in camelina production is squandered as after processing, the [plant's particles](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) can be used for animals silage. Camelina silage has a particularly attractive concentration of omega-3 fats that make it an especially fine livestock feed candidate that is simply now gaining acknowledgment in the U.S. and Canada. Camelina is fast growing, produces its own natural herbicide (allelopathy) and competes well versus weeds when an even crop is established. According to Britain's Bangor University's Centre for Alternative Land Use, "Camelina might be an ideal low-input crop ideal for bio-diesel production, due to its lower requirements for nitrogen fertilizer than oilseed rape."
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Camelina, a branch of the mustard family, is indigenous to both Europe and Central Asia and hardly a new crop on the scene: archaeological evidence indicates it has been cultivated in Europe for a minimum of three millennia to produce both grease and animal fodder.
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Field trials of production in Montana, currently the center of U.S. camelina research study, showed a [vast array](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) of results of 330-1,700 lbs of seed per acre, with oil content differing in between 29 and 40%. Optimal seeding rates have been figured out to be in the 6-8 lb per acre variety, as the seeds' little size of 400,000 seeds per pound can create issues in germination to attain an optimum plant density of around 9 plants per sq. ft.
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Camelina's capacity could permit Uzbekistan to start breaking out of its most dolorous tradition, the imposition of a cotton monoculture that has warped the country's attempts at agrarian reform because attaining self-reliance in 1991. Beginning in the late 19th century, the Russian government figured out that Central Asia would become its cotton plantation to feed Moscow's growing fabric industry. The process was accelerated under the Soviets. While Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were likewise bought by Moscow to sow cotton, Uzbekistan in specific was [singled](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) out to produce "white gold."
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By the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union had actually ended up being self-dependent in cotton \ No newline at end of file