Government of Moscow plans to expand natural gas station network

Vitally Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, and Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government, Head of Moscow’s Department for Transport and Road Infrastructure Development, signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017 an agreement to promote the use of natural gas for vehicles.

The agreement is aimed at developing and implementing investment projects for the construction of refueling infrastructure for passenger natural gas vehicles, as well as increasing the number of natural gas buses in Moscow. The parties also intend to further their cooperation with regard to the use of natural gas in railroad and river transportation.

By 2025, it is planned to expand Moscow’s natural gas refueling infrastructure by building filling stations with an aggregate capacity of at least 136 million cubic meters of gas per year, with Moscow’s bus fleet adding no less than 3,000 NGVs.

There are currently 21 CNG stations in Moscow, one of which is owned by Gazprom and the rest by Mosavtogaz. Gazprom plans to bring one more CNG station into operation in 2017.

https://www.ngvjournal.com/government-of-moscow-plans-to-expand-natural-gas-station-network/