Canberra, Sept. 22 -- Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will travel to India and Saudi Arabia this week to strengthen Australia's fuel security and work with international partners on global energy security, the Australian Government's Ministry for Climate Change and Energy said in a press release on Tuesday.

In India, Bowen will meet his ministerial counterparts and visit the Jamnagar oil refinery in Gujarat, called by the ministry as the world's largest oil refinery.

He will also convene a roundtable with clean energy industry representatives and deliver a speech on electrification ahead of COP31, highlighting the importance of renewables to future global energy security and improving resilience to supply and p...