All roads lead to ANGVA’s 4th Natural Gas for Vehicles Conference Exhibition, October 18-20, Beijing. Have  you made your arrangements yet?

Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc), through it’s subsidiary Emirates Gas (EMGAS), has hosted the next milestone event for the natural gas vehicle caravan traveling the Western Route of ANGVA’s Green Highway (AGH2011), in Dubai. “We are privileged to host the ANGVA Green Highways 2011 roadshow in Dubai,” said Zaid Al Qufaidi, managing director – Enoc Gas Marketing, at the flag-off event that sees Team UAE, headed by Mr. Fazal Ali Khan of Emgas, depart for Islamabad, Pakistan.

Team Pakistan is scheduled to have their flag-off event in Islamabad on 1st October 2011. From Islamabad the AGH2011 torch and scroll will travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh for a flag-off on 5th October 2011 and then to Yangon, Myanmar for a flag-off on 8th October 2011 before handing over to Team China.

A focused outreach program, ANGVA Green Highways is organised every two years since 2007 and has been extremely successful in helping countries in the Asia Pacific region to launch their compressed natural gas (CNG) and natural gas vehicle (NGV) programs. Described as a ‘journey of a thousand miles of friendship, enthusiasm and cooperation,’ the roadshow also aims at creating co-operation and exchange of information in the sector.

EMGAS used the Dubai event to promote the use of natural gas for the transportation sector. “The goals of ANGVA are a perfect fit to our mission of promoting the use of compressed natural gas, which enhances economic efficiency and contributes to sustaining our environment. Emgas has undertaken several concerted initiatives to promote a culture of ‘green energy,’ and introduced a range of products that help reduce energy consumption and carbon emission,” said Zaid Al Qufaidi. EMGAS has been working closely with RTA to introduce CNG in public transport to enhance environment protection. A unique model of pipe-less natural gas fuel stations will be introduced in Dubai as part of plans to implement a cost-effective and environment-friendly natural gas transportation stations.

At the flag-off event, Hesham Ali Mustafa, senior director – Enoc Gas Marketing general manager – Emirates Gas, spoke of Emgas’s investment in the conversion of Dubai Creek abras (water taxis) from diesel engines to compressed natural gas. “The project has been successful and is being scaled up for appropriate technology development and commercial implementation by RTA,” he said.

“EMGAS is also providing CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) to Dubai Municipality for fuelling Dubai Municipality vehicles, recently converted to run on CNG as part of this go green initiative. We are confident that the ANGVA Green Highways will further encourage users in the UAE to adapt natural gas vehicles,” Hesham added.

As part of the EMGAS/ANGVA 2011 Green Highways event, five CNG vehicles were displayed at the entrance of the venue. One of these vehicles, a Volkswagen Passat Variant CNG version that is factory-fitted to operate on CNG, was specially imported from Germany for the event. The sponsors of the event, Volkswagen, Emirates Transport and CG Tech shared their experience on converting their vehicles to compressed natural gas.

EMGAS recently introduced “Pro-Power”, a customized gas cylinder, for forklifts, further promoting clean transportation. Another key product is Cutting Edge Gas (CEG), which was introduced following research that industries such as metal cutting and ship building had strong requirements for safe and economical cutting fuel.

The ANGVA Green Highway project will culminate in the juncture of Western, Southern and Eastern Routes in Beijing in time for ANGVA’s 4th Natural Gas for Vehicles Conference Exhibition for Asia-Pacific, October 18-20.

(This article primarily compiled using information from an EMGAS press release)

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