G20 Energy Ministers Endorse Clean Cooking and Infrastructure Commitments in Houston

The U.S. Department of Energy, the White House National Energy Dominance Council, the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency hosted the G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial in Houston, Texas, September 14-16, 2026. Under President Trump's leadership, the ministers reached consensus on four outcomes: advancing energy access and closing the clean cooking gap, supply-chain security, infrastructure development and water resilience.

The clean cooking access declaration, endorsed by the ministers, notes that liquefied petroleum gas has accounted for roughly 75% of global gains in clean cooking access since 2010. The declaration seeks to mobilize attention and resources for the two billion people still lacking clean cooking, and a side event co-hosted by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Corporate Council on Africa President and CEO Florie Liser examined stronger public-private partnerships, particularly across Africa.

Private-sector announcements included Hitachi Energy's $528 million investment to build a new power-transformer manufacturing facility in Gallman, Mississippi, projected to create 654 jobs. Caturus disclosed a five-train expansion of its Commonwealth LNG export facility in Louisiana, adding 7.75 million tonnes per annum - about 7% of total U.S. capacity in 2025 - and raising the project's planned capacity to roughly 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 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, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other unions were present at the ministerial.