Overview
- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum joined EU energy ministers and U.S. LNG executives at the sixth P-TEC meeting in Athens.
- Talks centered on the Vertical Gas Corridor to transmit LNG from Greek terminals north to Romania, Hungary and Ukraine.
- Wright called for removing Russian gas from Western Europe, as the European Commission advances plans to phase out Russian imports.
- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece serves as the natural entry point for American LNG into Europe.
- ExxonMobil, Helleniq Energy and Energean finalized an Ionian Sea exploration partnership on the P-TEC stage.