Filling stations are ordered to add gas – compulsory gas supply to threaten them

The Government carries on attempts to develop the market of natural-gas-based motor fuel. Now all Russian stations must be equipped with autogas filling systems that may increase value of a station by 25% on the average. Oil companies are going to develop this segment, but they acknowledge that it’s impossible to re-equip all filling stations. But to date, penalties for gas absence at the filling stations haven’t been provided for.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has extended a list of minimal services, rendered at the filling stations: now autogas filling must be carried out there too, the Government reported yesterday. The Government considers that “the implementation of the order’s items will help to increase use of autogas as motor fuel that will positively influence the ecological situation along auto roads due to the fact that gas is more ecologically clean type of fuel”. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Energy. According to sources of the Kommersant, close to the Ministry, it wants the number of filling stations, which sell natural-gas-based motor fuel, will be 15-20%.

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