Russ Oil-Gas

BRIEFLY 17 June 2008 - Upstream OnLine - Gazprom boss Alexei Miller said the company had never never offered to buy a stake in oil producer TNK-BP and denied any link to the intensifying row between TNK-BP's Russian co-owners and UK supermajor BP. "Gazprom has never offered and has never received offers to buy TNK-BP's shares and has no links to the conflict at the company," Miller told Reuters.