Largest CNG station in Russia and Europe put into service
An opening ceremony for a new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station of Gazprom – the largest station of its kind in Russia and Europe – took place in Moscow last Thursday.
The CNG station has the design capacity of 29.8 million cubic meters of gas per year. It is equipped with 12 gas pumps and a dispenser for mobile NGV refuelling stations. The new facility can service some 2,000 vehicles per day.
Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors, explained how Russia, the country with the largest reserves of natural gas in the world, had embarked on a project to develop fuelling infrastructure for eco-friendly fuel.
“Over the next two years, Gazprom will establish a full-fledged NGV refueling network in the (Moscow) region,” said Zubkov.
In the past three years, Gazprom’s investments into the gas filling network have exceeded RUB 10 billion ($168m). We have built 43 state-of-the-art stations in 24 Russian regions.
The event was attended by Viktor Zubkov, Kirill Molodtsov, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Likhachev, Director General of Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo.
