Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according to the director of the department’s Public Transportation Management Centre.
HCM City will build more CNG filling stations to meet refueling demand of buses running on CNG. (Illustrative photo: www.pvgas.com.vn)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City’sDepartment of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG)filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according tothe director of the department’s Public Transportation Management Centre.
Tran Chi Trung said the three filling stationswill be placed at bus terminals at District 1’s 23/9 Park, Cho Lon (Big Market)in District 5 and District 8 Bus Station, covering an area of about 500sq.meach.
Trung said the city needs a total of 19 CNG fillingstations to accommodate the rising number of CNG buses in the coming years.
Next year, the department expects to build anadditional 12 CNG filling stations in many districts, he said.
The installation follows a plan of the municipal PartyCommittee and People’s Committee to create an environmentally friendly systemof passenger transportation.
The city aims to replace about 3,120 buses withnew ones in the 2018-2020 period.
Of the figure, it is estimated that the city canreach about 75 percent of the replaced buses running on clean fuel like CNG.
However, the city currently has only four CNGfilling stations, which are located far from the city centre (in Thu Duc, Tan Binh,Binh Chanh districts, and District 12), leading to increased operational costsfor bus operators and more time for bus refueling.
The PVGazprom Natural Gas For Vehicles LimitedLiability Company (PVGazprom NGV), a joint venture of PetroVietnam Gas JointStock Corporation (PV Gas) and Russia PVGazprom International, have been askedto invest in new CNG filling stations.
In addition, the department has asked thePVGazprom NGV to conduct research about portable gas stations that wouldprovide gas for public vehicles in cases of urgent demand.-VNS/VNA
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HCM City will build more CNG filling stations to meet refueling demand of buses running on CNG. (Illustrative photo: www.pvgas.com.vn) 
