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History of the IEA Mission
From oil security to steering the world toward secure and sustainable energy transitions At the heart of the global dialogue on energy security and clean energy transitions, the International Energy Agency is the world’s leading energy authority. We provide reliable and comprehensive data, analysis, and policy recommendations with the goal of shaping a secure, sustainable and affordable energy future for all while meeting the climate change objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement.The IEA...
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Energy Business Council Structure
Dialogue among the IEA, the business community and policymakers The IEA Energy Business Council (EBC) brings together some of the world’s largest companies involved in energy exploration, production and consumption, ranging from oil, natural gas and coal companies to automobile and appliance manufacturers, wind and solar producers and financial institutions. The aim of EBC is to promote dialogue among the IEA, business community and policymakers across a broad range of cross-cutting iss...
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Saudi Arabia 2020 International collaborations - G20
IEA Contribution to G20 Under the Saudi Presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20), the IEA played a crucial role in convening an Extraordinary G20 Energy Ministerial on 10 April 2020 in the context of the turmoil in global oil markets. The IEA Executive Director updated Energy Ministers of the G20 on the state of energy markets and energy security at their regular G20 Energy Ministers Meeting on 27 September 2020. Ahead of the Ministerial, the voice of global business, t...
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Subscriptions Data and statistics
Work with the data behind IEA analysis Access trusted data on global energy markets...
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Strait of Hormuz Oil security and emergency response
Factsheet Last updated: February 2026 Overview The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow sea passage, separating the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, and connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, the Strait is only 29 nautical miles wide (54 km) and it consists of 2-mile-wide navigable channels (3.7 km) for inbound and outbound shipping as well as a 2-mile-wide buffer zone. The Strait of Hormuz, through which an average of 20 million barrels per day (mb/d) ...
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Manuals Data and statistics
IEA Guide to Reporting Energy Technology RD&D Budgets This manual was written by the IEA for experts who collect and issue national RD&D data and submit responses to IEA RD&D surveys; it is mainly intended as a reference document. Tracking Public Investment in Energy Technology Research: A Roadmap A wide range of countries make efforts to track their entire national public energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) activity on an ongoing basis, also sharing the c...
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Membership
The IEA family is made up of 32 Member countries, 13 Association countries, and 6 Accession countries seeking IEA membership
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Training
Building long-term partnerships with participating countries IEA training and capacity building The IEA has carried out training activities since its creation more than 50 years ago, starting with the Emergency Response Exercises (ERE) for its member countries to prepare them for oil supply disruptions. Over the decades, the scope for training has broadened to include energy statistics, modelling, technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy policies and subjects of similar intere...
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Oil security and emergency response
Ensuring quick and effective response to major supply disruptions Ensuring energy security has been at the centre of the IEA’s mission since its creation in 1974, following the oil crisis in 1973. Today, the global oil market remains vulnerable to a wide range of risk factors, including natural disasters, major technical accidents, and geo-political tensions. As oil is expected to remain a major component of global energy demand for the coming decades, particu...
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Joint Organisations Data Initiative International collaborations
A reliable, freely accessible and global database of key oil and gas statistics The Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) is a globally recognised collaborative effort delivering monthly standardised data on oil and gas production, consumption, stocks, and trade across major energy-producing and consuming countries. Supported by leading international organisations, JODI’s transparency initiative strengthens informed policy decisions, market monitoring, and energy ...