Repsol chairman says company should be Spanish

MADRID Nov 13 (Reuters) - The chairman of oil major Repsol YPF (REP.MC), whose company has sparked interest from Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM), said on Thursday the company should continue to be "private, independent and Spanish".

New shareholders would be welcome as long as they satisfied those three criteria and did not diminish the group's growth capacity, Chairman Antonio Brufau said at an event in the north eastern city of Zaragoza. (Reporting by Carlos Ruano, Writing by Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Andrew Macdonald)