Denver-based oil executive Chris Wright could be the nation's next Energy Department secretary, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday.

Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in key posts.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday selected oil executive Chris Wright to be the next Secretary of the Department of Energy and a member of the newly formed Council of National Energy. Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy,