America’s LNG exports are up about 25 percent from a year ago.
The United States is witnessing a surge in energy production, with crude oil output at an all-time high, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a Nov. 3 interview with Fox News.
Countries in the Middle East are “so thrilled to have the United States back in the game of energy abundance and energy growth as opposed to following some European model of trying to shut down all the traditional forms of energy. And under President [Donald] Trump, he said, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’ In July, the United States set a record for oil production, 13.6 million barrels a day. There’ll be new records set going forward,” Burgum said.
According to a December 2024 analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the United States was the top crude oil producer of 2023 and the previous five years, averaging 12.9 million barrels per day that year.
The United States produced 13.79 million barrels of crude oil per day in August, a new high, according to the latest EIA data. This was up from 11.31 million four years back in August 2021, under the first year of the Biden administration.
“Under President Biden, we had a moratorium on LNG export facilities. This year, U.S. number one export in the world is LNG,” Burgum said, adding that exports were up 25 percent year over year.
In 2024, the United States exported 11.9 billion cubic feet per day of LNG globally and remained the largest LNG exporter in the world, EIA said in a March 27 analysis. Australia was the second-largest exporter, followed by Qatar in third place.
According to EIA data, the United States exported 451.13 billion cubic feet of LNG in August 2025, which is 24 percent higher than the same month last year.
Burgum said the higher LNG exports were also a reflection of entrepreneurs, innovators, and the private sector in the country investing tens of billions of dollars in LNG export facilities.
America’s LNG exports were helping all the European nations to fulfill their plan to decouple from having to buy Russian gas by the end of next year, said the interior secretary.
“Energy diplomacy is working. President Trump knows how to use it to end wars and knows how to use it to bring prosperity at home as well as peace abroad,” he said.
Burgum shot back at climate activists who he said were promoting energy transition away from traditional sources over the past 10 years.
What the world actually needs now is “energy addition,” which is what Trump’s energy dominance agenda is all about, he said.
The Trump administration wants to produce enough energy to be able to sell it to allies so they don’t have to buy from America’s adversaries like Russia or Iran, according to Burgum. It also wants to ensure that the country has enough energy to win the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race with China, he added.
In a Sept. 3 report, the EIA forecast that North American LNG exports would surge significantly over the coming years on the back of higher U.S. output.
“[North American LNG] export capacity is on track to more than double between 2024 and 2028, from 11.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2023 to 24.4 Bcf/d in 2028,” the report said. Bcf refers to one billion cubic feet.
LNG export capacity growth is predicted to be the highest for the United States at 9.7 Bcf/d, followed by Canada with 2.5 Bcf/d, and Mexico with 0.8 Bcf/d.
The prediction is contingent on “projects currently under construction begin operations as planned,” the EIA said, highlighting that there were 10 new projects presently under construction across the three nations.
