First LNG Bunkering Station Opens on Yangtze River

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday May 20, 2014

The first liquefied natural gas (LNG) upstream bunkering station on China's Yangtze River has opened at Yidu city in Hubei province, Chinese shipping news site SinoShip News reports.

Xilan Natural Gas Group, a green energy company that converted a tugboat into the first LNG-powered vessel to run on the river in 2010, is behind the facility.

The station has a daily capacity of 135,000 cubic meters and cost a total of RMB128 million ($20.5 million).

Xilan Natural Gas Group parent company China Natural Gas, Inc. (CHNG) has been working on inland LNG fuelling stations along the Yangtze River since 2010, according to information from the company published by NGV Global News.

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