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Synopsis India's search for energy security is assuming challenging dimensions. In the broad framework of India's approach to its Asian neighbours, this study explores India's extended neighbourhood for the prospects of energy cooperation. The study focuses on four countries-Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam and Iran-about which there exists a considerable information gap in the public domain. While Bangladesh's decision to supply its surplus gas is trapped in its internal politics, other neighbours of India, particularly Iran and Myanmar, offer encouraging prospects for energy cooperation. India's bilateral relations with these countries are cordial and cooperative and its has adopted innovative strategies to harness their energy potential. The study suggests that there is scope for India to encourage its private sector also, to strengthen its search for energy security. The study also looks into the structures of energy decision-making in these countries and political imperatives of such decisions with regard to energy cooperation with India. It would be nice if this study generates wider discussion and debate, as that would help us in locating the gaps in the study and also identifying areas where we could and should have done more. On the whole, the work on this study has been an extremely educative and intellectually rewarding experience.