Exclusive: White House looking to make oil deals at Climate Week

• "It's Europe, it's Asia. They are looking for U.S. energy. They want to get off of Russian energy sources, and we have such a supply," said Agen, the executive director of the White House National Energy Dominance Council.

Driving the news: "I think there's a change shifting more particularly towards natural gas," Agen said about interest from abroad.

• "We have lots of natural gas that we can turn into LNG," Agen said. Trump 2.0 is very keen on liquefied natural gas.

Zoom out: Agen pointed to the trade deal that Trump unveiled with the European Union this summer, which included a European pledge to buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy.

• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the agreement would help the bloc further wean itself off Russian gas.

Context: Using climate gatherings to ink oil and gas deals is a controversial — but not unprecedented — move.

• The United Arab Emirates had reportedly planned to use a United Nations climate conference to ink oil deals, too.

What he's saying: "We not only need to take care of our U.S. citizens, that should be priority one, making sure it's flowing throughout the states," Agen said, "but then also leveraging that so we can get great deals for the U.S. ... and then, it has huge global implications."

What's next: Nuclear is the future, Agen suggested.

• "I think it's been kind of a whole scale change when it comes to nuclear, and that's driven a lot by the changes in technology," he said.

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