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Wright Signs the Fourth LNG Export Permit and Takes Questions at CERAWeek, Mar. 10, 2025

March 10, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:20:38

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed the administration’s fourth LNG export action and took press questions at CERAWeek 2025 in Houston, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the March 10, 2025 signing session, a companion to his conference address the same day. Wright said the administration was 50 days in and signed the approval for the Delfin offshore LNG export terminal in the Gulf, at 1.8 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas, as he stated the capacity — a huge amount of American energy and economic activity, in his words, benefiting the United States and the allies who import it.

Across the questions, Wright said there were no new details on refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which he said goes through Congress; that markets set oil prices and the administration’s actions aim to make production and infrastructure easier so supply grows and prices fall; and that, in his phrase, drill, baby, drill also requires build, baby, build. He defended ending support for offshore wind on its record, as he described it, of high prices and local opposition. On the Commonwealth LNG conditional approval, he said final decisions would follow the department’s study process ending March 20 — a public-comment process he described as a commitment to honesty, transparency, and data — with final permit approvals based on a full vetting of the facts. He said the administration was pleased to see OPEC returning barrels to the market, described selective use of the Loan Programs Office to nudge brand-new technologies such as fourth-generation nuclear while managing the loan book it inherited, and expressed optimism about Japanese investment in the Alaska LNG project, which he put at a seven-day sailing to Japan against 21 to 28 days from the Gulf Coast, as he stated the comparison. On the energy mix, he described the administration’s position as genuinely all of the above — solar growing, electric vehicles welcome without subsidies or mandates, in his framing — with wind singled out for its price record.

Why it matters

The signing session is the CERAWeek address converted into an instrument: the permit signed on camera, then a press question round in which the same doctrine — grow supply, clear infrastructure, let markets set prices — is applied issue by issue, from the petroleum reserve to Alaska LNG.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the Delfin offshore LNG export permit signed by Secretary Wright at CERAWeek on March 10, 2025, stated at 1.8 billion cubic feet per day. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright signs fourth LNG Export Permit with Q&A session at CERAWeek 2025 - March 10th, 2025” (official upload, embedded above; proceedings as delivered at the session, including remarks by Secretary Wright).