Caltex Australia in partnership with AGL Energy opened a compressed natural gas refueling facility at its Star Mart site at Tullamarine.
The facility is expected to mainly service commercial truck fleets already operating with the fuel, the company said in a statement.
One of the facilities customers will be the Toll IPEC, a provider of express road freight within Australia.
“While commercial trucks, buses and machinery represent the vast majority of the 3000 existing CNG vehicles operating nationally, building this type of refuelling infrastructure will give motorists with compatible vehicles access to the niche fuel too,” Caltex’s Executive General Manager Commercial, Bruce Rosengarten said, adding that there is a growing trend toward natural gas with more than 13 million vehicles powered by the fuel globally.
LNG World News Staff; Image: Caltex