Ildar Khalikov and Aleksei Miller discuss development of the market of natural gas fuel

On April 22, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Board Chairman of OAO “Gasprom” Aleksei Miller, Director General of OAO “KAMAZ” Sergey Kogogin, Director General of OOO “Gasprom transgas Kazan” Rafkat Kantyukov took part in a meeting “On developing the market of natural gas fuel in Russia and expansion of the range of natural gas-powered vehicles” at KAMAZ automaker in Naberezhnye Chelny.

Khalikov said that the republic has cooperated with “Gasprom gas motor fuel” since 2013, and a nine-year programme on developing the market of natural gas fuel was developed and is being implemented now. Natural gas-powered buses showed themselves to good advantage during World summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan, Khalikov said. He reminded that Acting Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov made a decision to support producers of natural gas-powered cars. In cooperation with “Gasprom gas motor fuel”, Tatarstan Government is carrying out work on using compressed natural gas.

Speaking at the meeting, Miller said that the republic is a leading region in Russia in terms of development of the market of natural gas fuel, and KAMAZ takes the first place in the country by producing gas-powered vehicles.

Sergey Kogogin and Aleksei Miller signed an agreement on mutual cooperation.