Energy secretary Wright says US is ready to sell more oil and gas to China, Bloomberg reports

(Reuters) -Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the U.S. is prepared to sell more oil and natural gas to China if Beijing reduces purchases from Russia, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

“There’s so much space for mutually beneficial deals between the U.S. and China,” Wright said during a Bloomberg TV interview.

The energy secretary plans to travel to Asia within weeks, or possibly sooner, the report said.

(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in BengaluruEditing by Tomasz Janowski)