The federal government will sign a new agreement with the United States to boost Australia’s emergency fuel stockpiles.

The energy minister, Angus Taylor, will sign a deal in Washington to secure access to the US petrol and crude oil supply.

Australia has an international obligation to have 90 days worth of supply, but in August it had only enough petrol and crude oil to last 28 days.

Australian car and truck drivers criticised the flagged deal with the US in August. They said any emergency supplies needed to be in Australia.

“It would not provide security for the Australian economy if there is a disruption to international supply chains,” the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, Geoff Crouch, said last year.

At the time Taylor said emergency supplies would take up to 40 days to reach Australia from the US.

Taylor will also meet oil industry heads in Texas before visiting a renewable energy technology centre in Colorado.

On Sunday he also announced that he government would release a consultation paper for investment in renewable technologies in coming weeks.