OVER 60 THOUSAND GAS-CYLINDER VEHICLES IN TECHNICALLY GOOD STATE REGISTERED IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
April 15, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. As of April 1, nine gas-filling
stations were operated in Armenia by Avtogaz LLC – a subsidiary
of ArmRusgazprom CJSC. These stations are supplied with gas from
gas-main pipelines. NT correspondent was informed by the company’s
press service that the capacity of the network of these stations
allows to sell 58.5 million cubic meters of liquefied gas annually
or to fill 2,750 cars daily.

It was mentioned that more than 60 thousand gas-cylinder vehicles
in technically good state are currently registered in the
country. According to the same source, taking into account the
production capacities of the gas-filling stations, the fleet of
gas-cylinder vehicles can be replenished up to 10% a year.

There are 207 gas-filling stations in Armenia. The amount of gas
sold by these stations has increased from 28.8 mln to 285.6 mln cubic
meters in recent years.