Gazprom has launched two new infrastructure facilities for refueling motor vehicles with natural gas, eco-friendly vehicle fuel.

With annual design capacity of 29.8 million cubic meters is CNG fuel station No. 2, the largest in Europe (along with the CNG station opened on the Levoberezhnaya Street in 2017), situated at the intersection of Zenitchikov and Dubravnaya Streets. Ensuring a daily throughput of 1,600 motor vehicles is the station which has twelve gas dispensers.

Located on Podolskikh Kursantov Street is CNG fueling station No. 5, which has an annual design capacity of 8.9 million cubic meters of gas and is equipped with six gas dispensers allowing refill of 480 motor vehicles a day.

The above facilities were built using domestic equipment and materials. The main consumers of natural gas will be Mosgortans (Moscow City Transport Authority, passenger transportation) and Ecotechprom (disposal of household waste). A comfortable urban environment in Moscow will be aided to be established by the use of eco-friendly vehicle fuel.

With the addition of new stations, the total number of Gazprom’s gas refueling facilities in Moscow and the adjacent territory has increased to seven.

“Natural gas as a vehicle fuel is a guarantee of eco-friendliness, cost-effectiveness and safety that should be embraced in transport sector of any world capital city, including Moscow, where we are consistently expanding our gas refueling network. Our further objective is to open two more state-of-the-art stations this year,” said Viktor Zubkov Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors.

He added that by using methane, they will meet the ambitious target of reducing the environmental impact. Gas-powered vehicles produce lower carbon dioxide and nitrogen emissions, as well as zero soot and sulfur emissions. In this way, cities will be saved from smoke, thereby significantly improving the quality of people’s lives. Gazprom is pursuing such efforts across the country, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka.

“It is particularly important that we widely engage domestic car and equipment manufacturers in developing the NGV market. And each new station has a beneficial impact on the economic and social growth of the country,” said Viktor Zubkov.