Gazprom officially opened Europe's largest Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling station in Moscow, the company announced late Thursday.
Chairman of Gazprom Viktor Zubkov, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Kirill Molodtsov, Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Mikhail Likhachev and Director General of Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo attended the event.
The new refueling station has a capacity of 29.8 million cubic meters of gas per year and is equipped with 12 gas pumps and a dispenser for mobile natural gas vehicle refueling.
'Thanks to the advanced, reliable equipment manufactured primarily in Russia, the new facility can service some 2,000 vehicles per day,' Gazprom said.
'Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas in the world. In view of that potential, a few years ago we embarked on an ambitious effort to develop the refueling infrastructure that uses affordable and eco-friendly vehicle fuel,' Gazprom's chairman said, adding that over the past three year, Gazprom's investments into the gas filling network exceeded 10 billion rubles ($167.5 million)
'We have built 43 state-of-the-art stations in 24 Russian regions,' he said.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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