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US Threatens To Withdraw From IEA Over Net Zero Agenda

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has issued a one-year deadline for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to abandon its net-zero emissions agenda or risk the United States withdrawing from the organization. Speaking at an IEA ministerial meeting in Paris, Wright criticized IEA’s goal for the world to achieve net zero by 2050 as a “destructive illusion” with […]

Global oil and gas fields shrinking output, IEA urges investment now

The international conversation over the future of oil and gas often focuses on demand trends while the factors affecting supply receive considerably less attention. The new IEA report, The Implications of Oil and Gas Field Decline Rates, seeks to rebalance this debate by drawing on previous groundbreaking IEA analysis on decline rates and exploring what has changed. The new analysis draws on production data from around 15 000 oil and gas fields from around the world.

IEA Prepares to Walk Back Predictions of Peak Oil and Gas Demand

Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reported the news in a column this week, citing a draft of the IEA report, World Energy Outlook. The agency uses a set of scenarios for the future, including some major assumptions, such as that all currently discussed climate-related policies would come into effect in full. Until 2020, the IEA included a Current Policy Scenario, which, as the name suggests, reflected actual policies being implemented.