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Chris Wright: “The United States was the largest importer of natural gas in…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

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… or what we think are the best ones, we may find some other ones better later and we're producing from those. But if you go back just 20 years ago, The United States was the largest importer of natural gas in the world [20 years ago]. and we were running 1200 rigs drilling for natural gas. 1200 rigs. We were the largest importer. Today we're by far and away the world's largest exporter and we're running 120 rigs for natural gas. (18:44–18:49)

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Asserts that 20 years ago, the U.S. was the largest importer of natural gas.

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