Antares Group opens Romania's first CNG filling station

Antares Group has opened the first Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling station in Romania after a €3.2 million ($3.51m) investment.

The budget was used for the purchase of a property strategically located in Ramnicu Valcea, near the E81 European route and close to a natural gas pipeline, the purchase of 20 buses that are filled with GNC and the construction of the CNG filling station itself.

“Antares bets on natural gas as a fuel of the future and, as known that LPG cannot be used for diesel vehicles, this business represents a viable alternative to classic fuels, because it brings efficiency in fuel economy,” said Dumitru Becsenescu, President of Antares Group.

Romania was, so far, the only European Union country that did not have filling stations for cars that run on CNG, although there is an European directive which says that by 2020, all Member States must have such stations in their national roads network at every 150 km distance.