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Several ways of organizing the production and use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a vehicle fuel are recommended on the basis of an analysis. It is noted that it is advisable to convert filling stations for motor vehicles into combined filling stations and to create LNG enterprises on the basis of autogas filling compressor stations.Many domestic and foreign scientific and technical journals have recently published papers that point out why it is desirable to replace petroleum vehicle fuel with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and present various mechanisms for doing that. Attention is focused primarily on technologies for using natural gas (NG) for transport. One of those technologies is to use regasifying systems when a supply of NG is stored on board in liquefied form.Let us consider a number of postulates concerning the introduction of LNG technology into transport systems. LNG -an economic, high-energy form of vehicle fuel.Upon studying the successful experience of such countries as Argentina, Brazil, and Italy in converting motor transport to compressed natural gas (CNG), some experts have come to the conclusion that the slow rate at which CNG for motor transport is being introduced in Russia is due to the insufficient number of autogas compressor filling stations (ACFSs). There are fewer than 200 large ACFSs in Russia while Argentina, for example, has built 1300 filling stations and the number of CNG vehicles (CNGVs) is 1.5 million.The predictions are that the number of CNGVs will reach 2 million in 2006.Compressed natural gas is used extensively in Italy as autogas, a gas vehicle fuel. The gas pressure in the cylinders has been increased from 20 to 32 MPa, which allows vehicles to travel 1.6 times as far on one fillup.The installed capacity is not fully utilized in Russia because of the comparatively small number of ACFSs. According to data from Mostavtogaz, there are 20 ACFSs in operation, with a total design CNG capacity of 186.8 million m 3 /yr. The demand for CNG not only does not correspond to the design capacity but decreased from 36.2 million m 3 in 1991 to 1.9 million m 3 in 1998 [1]. The capacity of the ACFSs has now increased to 10-18%, but has not reached the previous level, although it clearly is not insignificant.

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