The Department of Energy is expanding the export of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) as part of a deal involving the investment of billions of dollars of private capital. The deals include the official launch of the Trump Peace Pipelines Framework, which allows for more natural gas infrastructure to support Europe’s expansion of American LNG imports.
“President Trump is unleashing a new era of cooperation for Central and Eastern Europe,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. “These partnerships are rooted in our mutual support for an energy addition agenda — more jobs, more opportunity, and more investment. All of this is evidenced by the billions of dollars of deals signed today. The future is extremely bright for the nations that join the United States in pursuing common sense energy policies that deliver prosperity and security for their respective people.”
The new deals include a U.S.-led Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support energy infrastructure across Central and Eastern Europe, a joint statement of intent to support the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and the U.S., a study involving a Croatian small modular reactor, a next-generation data center in Croatia, and a nuclear joint statement between the U.S. and Croatia.
President Trump issued a memorandum earlier this month to bolster the nation’s capacity for LNG. “Consistent with that declaration, I find that ensuring sufficient natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity is critical to sustaining United States defense operations and ensuring allied energy security,” the memo read. “Inadequate pipelines, processing, storage, or natural gas and LNG export capacity would leave the United States and its partners dangerously exposed in times of crisis.”
