India to have 9,500 CNG stations in 8 years: minister
India is expected to have 9,500 CNG stations in the next eight years compared with about 4,600 at present, the country’s petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on August 23 while inaugurating CNG and LCNG stations at Mysuru in southern India.
He said that in the last eight years, CNG stations in the country have gone up from 938 to 4629. Singh added that piped natural gas (PNG) connections have quadrupled to almost 10mn while the city gas distribution (CGD) network has increased nine times to cover 630 districts of the country. The government is aiming to increase the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 15% by 2030 from 6-7% today.
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AG&P Pratham, a unit of Singapore-based AG&P, has set up the CNG and LCNG stations at Mysuru. AG&P City Gas is developing 12 city gas distribution networks in India under the brand name AG&P Pratham. In its 12 concessions, AG&P is responsible for developing and operating CNG stations for vehicles, PNG for homes, and the distribution of LNG to industrial and commercial customers. City gas projects in India benefit from marketing exclusivity in their designated areas for eight to ten years and construction exclusivity of related infrastructure for 25 years.
Last year, AG&P City Gas received a $120mn investment from Osaka Gas and Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development.