According to tender terms, the maximal price of 1 set of station should be US$1.407 million. The designed capacity of each GFCS should make up at least 2.4 million cubic meters of compressed natural gas.

The company announced tender on purchase and supply of GFCS on three lots. The first lot envisages supply of 10 GFCS by 1 March 2011, the second lot – 30 GFCS by 1 May 2011 and third lot – 60 GFCS from 1 July to 1 October 2011.

In line with announcement, tender proposals will be accepted till 10 February 2011. Uzbekneftegaz will finance purchases of GFCS due to own resources.

In February 2007, Uzbekistan started to implement wide-scale state programme on transfer of part of automobile fleet from petroleum to liquefied hydrocarbon and compressed gas. The programme was approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers “On measures on developing network of automobile gas filling compressor and automobile gas filling stations and stage-by-stage transfer of vehicles to liquefied hydrocarbon and compressed gas”.

In line with the government plans, Uzbekistan will build 138 GFCS and 952 gas filling stations with total capacity of 476,000 tonnes of liquefied gas by the end of 2012.