US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Thursday the US ‍is getting a 30 percent higher price for Venezuelan crude oil than Venezuela got before US special forces captured President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.“We’re getting about a 30 percent higher realized price when we sell the same barrel of ⁠oil than they sold the same barrel of oil three weeks ago,” Wright said at a US Energy Association event. Wright did not detail the prices of the oil sales before and after the capture of Maduro.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The US has completed the first sales of Venezuelan oil that are part of a $2 billion deal reached earlier this month between Caracas and Washington, a US official told ‍Reuters on Wednesday. The first sales were valued at $500 million with additional sales expected in ‍the coming days and ‍weeks, the official said.President ⁠Donald Trump’s administration has said ‌it will sell up to 50 ⁠million barrels of ‍the