2023-04653. International Energy Agency Meetings

AGENCY:

Department of Energy.

ACTION:

Notice of meetings.

SUMMARY:

The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International Energy Agency (IEA) will meet on March 15, 16, 2023, as a hybrid meeting via webinar and in person, in connection with a joint meeting of the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions (SEQ) and the IEA's Standing Group on the Oil Market (SOM) which is scheduled at the same time via webinar.

DATES:

March 15-16, 2023.

ADDRESSES:

The location details of the SEQ and SOM webinar meeting are under the control of the IEA Secretariat, located at 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, France. The in person meeting will take place at IEA Headquarters, 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, France.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Thomas Reilly, Assistant General Counsel for International and National Security Programs, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In accordance with section 252(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(i)) (EPCA), the following notice of meetings is provided:

A meeting of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International Energy Agency (IEA) will be held in person and via webinar at the IEA Headquarters, 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, commencing at 9:30 a.m., Paris time, on March 15, 2023. The purpose of this notice is to permit attendance by representatives of U.S. company members of the IAB at a meeting of the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions (SEQ), which is scheduled to be held at the same location in person and via webinar at the same time. The IAB will also hold a preparatory meeting among company representatives at the same location at 08:30 a.m. Paris time on March 15, 2023. The agenda for this preparatory meeting is to review the agenda for the SEQ meeting.

The location details of the SEQ meeting are under the control of the IEA Secretariat, located at 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, France. The agenda of the SEQ meeting is under the control of the SEQ. It is expected that the SEQ will adopt the following agenda:

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Approval of the Summary Record of the 172nd SEQ meeting

3. Ministerial Mandate on oil stockholding

4. Stockholding levels of IEA Member Countries

5. Emergency Response Review of Switzerland

6. Critical Minerals Security—update on ongoing work

7. Mid-term review Lithuania

8. Emergency Response Review of Finland

9. Industry Advisory Board Update

10. Electricity security and market report—update on ongoing work

11. Oral Reports by Administrations

12. Mid-term review the Netherlands

13. Any Other Business

Schedule of ERRs for 2023

Schedule of SEQ & SOM Meetings for 2023/24:

—13-15 June 2023

—14-16 November 2023

—21-22 March 2024 (tentative)

—18-20 June 2024 (tentative)

—19-21 November 2024 (tentative)

A meeting of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International Energy Agency (IEA) will be held in person and via webinar at the IEA Headquarters, 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, commencing at 9:30 a.m., Paris time, on March 16, 2023. The purpose of this notice is to permit attendance by representatives of U.S. company members of the IAB at a joint meeting of the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions (SEQ) and the IEA's Standing Group on the Oil Market (SOM), which is scheduled to be held at the same location in person and via webinar at the same time.

The location details of the SEQ and SOM meeting are under the control of the IEA Secretariat, located at 9 rue de la Fédération, 75015 Paris, France. The agenda of the meeting is under the control of the SEQ and the SOM. It is expected that the SEQ and the SOM will adopt the following agenda:

Welcome by the Chair

New Delegates To Introduce Themselves

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Approval of Summary Record of meeting of 16 November 2022

3. Update on the Current Oil Market Situation

4. Update on diesel market outlook

5. Reports on Recent Oil Market and Policy Developments in IEA Countries

6. Update on IEA-OPEC-IEF joint work program

7. Update on the gas market

8. Update on EU embargoes and price cap

9. Assessing Russian oil prices

10. Update on Fossil fuel subsidies/Methane tracker

11. Chinese demand prospects

12. State of the petrochemical sector

13. Any other business:

Date of next SOM/SEQ meetings: 13-15 June 2023

Close of meeting.

As provided in section 252(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(ii)), the meetings of the IAB are open to representatives of members of the IAB and their counsel; representatives of members of the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions and the IEA's Standing Group on the Oil Markets; representatives of the Departments of Energy, Justice, and State, the Federal Trade Commission, the General Accounting Office, Committees of Congress, the IEA, and the European Commission; and invitees of the IAB, the SEQ, the SOM, or the IEA.

Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was signed on March 2, 2023, by Thomas Reilly, Assistant General Counsel for International and National Security Programs, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register .

Signed in Washington, DC, March 2, 2023.

Treena V. Garrett,

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.