Sharjah’s First Gas Operated Vehicles Service Commissioned At Emarat’s Dasman Service Station
Posted: 16 February 2005
Emirates General Petroleum Corporation “Emarat” announced the signing of an agreement with the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) which will lead to 300 of the Authority's vehicles becoming gas powered.
Sharjah-based Dasman service station has been earmarked for the provision of this service, and a facility to carry out the conversions is expected to become operational within the next six months. This initiative is part of the country's drive to convert more vehicles and public transport to gas.
"The agreement is a big step forward for the UAE and a sign of things to come," said Mr Adel Khalifa Al Shaer, Emarat Deputy General Manager Sales and Marketing. "The UAE has one of the biggest reserves of gas and one of the top five countries in the world.
The UAE's gas production is forecast to grow 50 per cent by 2008, from 44 billion cubic metres to 64 billion cubic metres. "This is a clear indication that natural gas and its commercial exploitation will have a very large say in the future of energy use in the country," he added.
Global demand for gas is expected to increase five-fold by 2030 and the resource become the dominant source of energy. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested to develop an infrastructure based on liquefied natural gas use.
Driving these trends is the act that gas is available in huge quantities and has a wide range of use and can be adapted to power everything from generating stations to buses and taxis. It has other benefits, for example gas contains less carbon than oil and coal but far larger amounts of hydrogen, which gives it a huge advantage in environmental terms. It can also be easily refined to become pure hydrogen, which can be used in fuel cells and other technologies that will dominate the future of energy use.
Al Shaer noted recent global reports showed the per capita rate of energy consumption in the UAE was one of the highest in the world. He said: “This shows that the UAE’s economy is strong and growing in all sectors. It is progressing in leaps and bounds and huge amounts of energy will be required to sustain the pace of growth."
The UAE's two main sources of energy are petroleum and gas and the annual rate of growth of regional energy consumption, at around four per cent, is one of the highest in the world. Global consumption averages out at less than three per cent.
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