Austria's OMV CEO tells Putin his firm wants more gas from Russia
4/28/2017
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Rainer Seele, CEO of Austrian oil and gas group OMV, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that his company wanted to buy more gas from Russia and was seeking closer cooperation.
"We want to buy more gas," said Seele at a meeting with Putin in Moscow. He said that talks with Gazprom head Alexei Miller would not just be about continuing their contract, but also "about buying extra volumes."
Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Kevin O'Flynn; Editing by Andrew Osborn
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