The US is the world’s largest producer of oil and gas and aims to be the dominant supplier of energy to the global economy, deputy US energy secretary Dan Brouillette told the opening conference of the International Petroleum Week in London on 20 February.

“We are already a natural gas exporter and are on the cusp of becoming a net energy exporter,” he said. He said that US oil output was now averaging 10m barrels a day (b/d).

Brouillette said that President Trump’s energy strategy involved displacing imports and encouraging production to meet rising domestic and global demand.

Special attention is being devoted to gas exports.

“10m cubic feet a day of LNG [liquefied natural gas] exports will be operational by 2020,” he said. “When it comes to exporting to LNG. The US is open for business...we remain ready willing and able to export LNG to anywhere in the world."