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The IEA Says Oil Drilling Advances Could Help Unlock Next-Generation Geothermal

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The International Energy Agency, which publishes the Oil Market Report and the Gas Market Report, France
The International Energy Agency.

By The Edge Research Team

The International Energy Agency published the second episode of a three-part series on drilling this week, and the argument inside it is worth a paragraph even though the item carries no data.

The agency traces drilling from the first commercial oil well in 1859 through directional drilling, hydraulic fracturing and offshore work, and argues that many of the same techniques have laid the basis for next-generation geothermal projects that could unlock heat as a reliable, low-emissions resource in many parts of the world.

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The participants are drawn from both sides of that proposition: an agency energy analyst, a technical manager from an oilfield services company, the chief executive of a drilling firm and a researcher from a United States geothermal test site.

For Gulf readers the relevance is narrow but real, and the connection is our reading rather than the agency’s: the engineering capability the region has built over decades in hydrocarbons is the same class of capability the series identifies as central to geothermal deployment.

We are not reporting any figures from this item because it contains none.

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  • International Energy Agency, podcast episode on advances in drilling and their energy-sector impacts, 20 August 2026
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