New Delhi, June 5 -- Ambassador Sergio Gor said on Friday that the United States is set to invest USD 1.5 billion towards facilitating building energy security infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific--with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. The project would see the mobilisation of US private capital to create LNG and other energy infrastructure in the region.

He said that the billion-dollar deal by the US International Development Finance Cooperation (DFC) will see the establishment of an investment platform to facilitate the buildout of energy security infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific, focusing primarily on South and Southeast Asia.

Gor said in a post on X that it represents the single largest project investment in DFC's histor...