Gazprom will build natural gas infrastructure in southern Vi

  Representatives from Russian company had a working session with leaders of the People’s Committee of the province of Dong Nai on October 19 to discuss multifaceted cooperation with the region. During the meeting, Gazprom expressed its interest in building liquefied natural gas supply stations serving the transport sector in the province mentioned and other southern localities.

  Provincial People’s Committee Vice Chairman Tran Van Vinh lauded Gazprom’s plan to invest in the locality, highlighting the great potential and advantages for the firm to operate in the field.

  Business and production enterprises operating in industrial parks directly import and export goods through sea and river ports along the locality, he noted, adding that the upcoming construction of the Long Thanh international airport will present a great opportunity for clean and environmentally-friendly fuel suppliers.

  According to Vinh, Dong Nai is working to promote green economy and as such, the use of clean energy like LNG is a priority. He went on to reveal the area’s plan to develop a network of 500 buses powered by natural gas.

  Gazprom is implementing a project to produce and supply natural gas for the transport sector in Vietnam and it plans to build a LNG plant with a capacity of 250,000 tones per year in the southern region to serve the transport and industrial sectors. As a result, the Russian company urged the local authorities to facilitate the group’s goal in the province, and ratified its involvement in supplying liquefied natural gas for the local public transport system program using CNG compressor based buses.

  In reply, Vice Chairman Vinh requested relevant sectors work closely with Gazprom in order to carefully study and evaluate specific cooperation plans in the field.

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