Gazprom has no plans for BP stake in TNK-BP
Gazprom head Alexei Miller denied on Monday that his company had plans to buy oil giant BP's stake in its TNK-BP Russian joint venture, RIA Novosti reported.
"This is the first time I've heard about it," Miller said, when asked by journalists if Gazprom had made BP an offer for its stake in TNK-BP.
Last week, a source said BP had received an offer from a Russian state-owned company for its share in TNK-BP.
BP currently has a 50 percent stake in TNK-BP, and the other half is held by the AAR consortium of four Russian billionaires.
Last week, one of them, Mikhail Fridman, resigned as TNK-BP's CEO, saying the firm's management had become "paralyzed" by differences over future strategy.
