Energy Department Advances U.S. Energy Priorities at G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial

HOUSTON-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in coordination with the White House National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted G20 Energy Ministers at the G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial in Houston, Texas, from September 14-16, 2026.

Under President Trump's leadership, the U.S. recentered G20 conversations on affordability, reliability, and security-affirming the essential role of hydrocarbons, nuclear energy, and advanced technologies in delivering energy abundance and driving economic prosperity.

G20 Energy Ministers reached consensus on four outcomes: advancing energy access and closing the clean cooking gap, supply chain security, infrastructure development, and water resilience. The outcomes reflect the significant progress following nearly a year of dialogue with the G20 to support the commonsense solutions that President Trump has championed to increase access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy; speed the development of critical infrastructure; and reduce vulnerabilities in energy supply chains.

Under U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright's leadership, G20 Energy Ministers endorsed a clean cooking access declaration to support affordable, reliable, and scalable solutions for closing the clean cooking gap-including the use of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, which has accounted for roughly 75% of global gains in clean cooking access since 2010. This declaration can help mobilize greater attention and resources for the two billion people still living without access to clean cooking, so they can breathe cleaner air at home and spend less time collecting traditional biomass for fuel.

Building on this achievement, Secretary Wright and Corporate Council on Africa President and CEO Florie Liser hosted a side event on clean cooking that convened G20 representatives alongside private sector executives. The event examined how stronger public-private partnerships can accelerate access to clean cooking solutions, particularly across Africa, to help translate this year's G20 commitments into action.

"Energy is the essential ingredient that enables everything we do," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. "A highly energized society brings health, wealth, and opportunity. The consensus reached in Houston advances cooperation to expand the affordable, reliable, and secure energy, infrastructure, and supply chains needed to support prosperity, resilience, and opportunity throughout the world."

The investments and agreements announced in Houston demonstrate how the U.S. energy abundance agenda is fostering job creation, expanding economic opportunity, strengthening U.S. and global manufacturing partnerships, and advancing the energy infrastructure that will power the future:

• The Japanese company Hitachi Energy announced a $528 million investment to build a new power transformer manufacturing facility in Gallman, Mississippi, expected to create 654 new jobs.
• Houston-based Caturus announced a five-train expansion of its Commonwealth LNG export facility in Louisiana that would add 7.75 million tonnes per annum of capacity-or approximately 7% of total U.S. capacity in 2025-and nearly double the project's planned capacity to approximately 17.25 million tonnes per annum.
• Continental Resources signed a memorandum of understanding with Venezuela's PDVSA to develop and operate the 126,000-acre Ayacucho 2 Block in the Orinoco Belt, which Continental estimates contains approximately 30 billion barrels of oil.

Representatives from the following nations and unions were present at the Energy Abundance Ministerial: the African Union, the Argentine Republic, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the European Union, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of India, the Republic of Indonesia, the Italian Republic, Japan, the United Mexican States, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Türkiye, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.