Gazprom is aiming to provide 20% of Britain's gas by 2015, most likely via the acquisition of a company such as Scottish Power, deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev said in an interview in The Guardian newspaper on January 18. Medvedev said the UK had nothing to fear from sourcing gas from Russia. "We now have a good wholesale business in the UK with big industrial customers and power stations. We are aiming to secure 20% of the market by 2015," he said. Starting from scratch in retail was not an option, Medvedev said, so pursuit of an acquisition was likely. "We are looking at such opportunities now. We are not afraid of such size as Scottish Power but we have no concrete plans at this moment," he said.
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