Gazprom start building LNG station on Moscow-St. Petersburg highway

• 11 Oct 2018

A ceremony marking the construction start of the first cryogenic filling station of Gazprom on the new Moscow – St. Petersburg highway (M11) took place on September 30, 2018 near Okulovka, Novgorod Region. The event was attended by Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Vyacheslav Petushenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Russian Highways State Company (Avtodor), Veronika Minina, First Deputy Governor of the Novgorod Region, and Mikhail Likhachev, Director General of  Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo.

The cryogenic filling station will be used primarily for fueling heavy-duty trucks with LNG, Gazprom said.

Gazprom is constructing NGV refueling infrastructure along the M-11 highway, part of the North-South and Europe-China international transit routes, as part of the cooperation with Avtodor. A total of six cryogenic filling stations will be built there.

In October 2017, Gazprom and Avtodor signed the action plan to develop the gas filling infrastructure along the federal highways under the responsibility of Avtodor.

The projected highway traffic will be about 5,000 trucks a day, with some of them to be powered by LNG.

Europe–China international transit route is an investment project spanning Russia, Kazakhstan, and China, over 8,000 kilometers long.

Efforts to create natural gas filling infrastructure along the Europe–China route are being taken as part of the cooperation between Gazprom, CNPC, and KazMunayGas, as agreed in a memorandum signed on October 5, 2017, during the 7th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.