The station will officially begin operations on 9 September 2010, which marks the company’s first development of an LNG fueling station in China.
The LNG fueling station has a designed fueling capacity of approximately 50,000 cubic meters per day, which will initially serve as a working model.
China Natural Gas is also working with truck manufacturers, which the company believes will accelerate the process of acceptance of LNG fuels into the marketplace.
Energy research and consulting group Wood Mackenzie forecasts that LNG consumption in China could reach as much as 46 million metric tons per year by 2020, up from an earlier estimate of 31 million metric tons.
