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+<br>The recent discoveries of a International Energy [Administration whistleblower](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) that the IEA may have misshaped crucial oil forecasts under [extreme U](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html).S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers hardly ever come  to advance their careers), a slow-burning atomic 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 the possibilities of discovering new reserves have the possible to toss federal governments' long-lasting planning into chaos.<br>
+<br>Whatever the reality, rising long [term worldwide](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) demands seem specific to [overtake production](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) in the next decade, specifically offered the high and increasing expenses of establishing brand-new super-fields such as Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan and Brazil's southern Atlantic Jupiter and Carioca fields, which will need billions in financial investments before their very first barrels of oil are produced.<br>
+<br>In such a circumstance, additives and substitutes such as biofuels will play an ever-increasing function by stretching beleaguered production quotas. As market forces and rising rates drive this innovation to the forefront, one of the richest possible production areas has been absolutely neglected by investors up to now - Central Asia. Formerly the USSR's cotton "plantation," the region is poised to become a major player in the production of biofuels if enough foreign investment can be obtained. Unlike Brazil, where [biofuel](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4) is manufactured mainly from sugarcane, or the United States, where it is mostly distilled from corn, Central Asia's ace resource is an indigenous plant, Camelina sativa.<br>
+<br>Of the previous Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian republics, those clustered around the coasts of the Caspian, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have actually seen their economies boom because of record-high energy costs, while Turkmenistan is waiting in the wings as an increasing producer of gas.<br>
+<br>Farther to the east, in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, geographical isolation and fairly scant hydrocarbon resources relative to their Western Caspian neighbors have mainly hindered their ability to cash in on rising international energy needs already. Mountainous Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan remain mainly reliant for their electrical requirements on their Soviet-era hydroelectric facilities, but their heightened need to generate winter electricity has actually led to [autumnal](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) and winter water discharges, in turn severely affecting the [agriculture](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) of their western downstream [neighbors](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.<br>
+<br>What these three downstream nations 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, beginning in the 1950s with Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" programs, has become a major producer of wheat. Based on my conversations with Central Asian government officials, given the thirsty demands of cotton monoculture, foreign propositions to diversify agrarian production towards [biofuel](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) would have terrific appeal in Astana, Ashgabat and Tashkent and to a lesser extent Astana for those hardy investors happy to bank on the future, particularly as a plant native to the region has currently proven itself in trials.<br>
+<br>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 industrial amounts for [biofuel](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile). In January Japan Airlines undertook a historical test flight utilizing camelina-based bio-jet fuel, ending up being the very first Asian provider to try out flying on fuel stemmed from sustainable feedstocks during a one-hour demonstration flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The test was the conclusion of a 12-month assessment of camelina's operational performance capability and possible business practicality.<br>
+<br>As an alternative energy source, camelina has much to recommend 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 immune to spring freezing, needs less fertilizer and herbicides, and can be used as a rotation crop with wheat, which would make it of specific interest in Kazakhstan, now Central Asia's major wheat exporter. Another bonus of camelina is its tolerance of poorer, less fertile conditions. An acre planted with camelina can [produce](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) approximately 100 gallons of oil and when planted in [rotation](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) with wheat, camelina can increase wheat production by 15 percent. A load (1000 kg) of camelina will consist of 350 kg of oil, of which pushing can extract 250 kg. Nothing in camelina production is lost as after processing, the plant's debris can be used for animals silage. Camelina silage has a particularly attractive concentration of omega-3 fatty acids that make it a particularly fine livestock feed candidate that is just now acquiring acknowledgment in the U.S. and Canada. Camelina is fast growing, produces its own natural herbicide (allelopathy) and contends well against weeds when an even crop is developed. According to Britain's Bangor University's Centre for Alternative Land Use, "Camelina might be a perfect low-input crop appropriate for bio-diesel production, due to its lower requirements for nitrogen fertilizer than oilseed rape."<br>
+<br>Camelina, a branch of the mustard family, is native to both Europe and Central Asia and hardly a brand-new crop on the scene: historical evidence shows it has been cultivated in Europe for a minimum of 3 centuries to produce both veggie oil and animal fodder.<br>
+<br>Field trials of production in Montana, currently the center of U.S. camelina research, showed a large range of outcomes of 330-1,700 pounds of seed per acre, with oil content varying between 29 and 40%. Optimal seeding rates have actually been determined to be in the 6-8 pound per acre range, as the seeds' little size of 400,000 seeds per lb can produce problems in germination to achieve an [optimum](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) plant density of around 9 plants per sq. ft.<br>
+<br>Camelina's potential could permit Uzbekistan to begin [breaking](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) out of its most dolorous tradition, the imposition of a cotton monoculture that has deformed the nation's attempts at agrarian reform given that attaining self-reliance in 1991. Beginning in the late 19th century, the Russian federal government determined that Central Asia would become its cotton plantation to feed Moscow's growing textile market. The process was accelerated under the Soviets. While Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were likewise bought by Moscow to plant cotton, Uzbekistan in specific was singled out to produce "white gold."<br>
+<br>By the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union had become self-dependent in cotton