Regional overview

In Asia, natural gas is predominantly used by the power generation and industrial sectors. Typically, the transportation sector consumes 4-5% of the total natural gas consumption in this region.

However, the five countries with largest number of natural gas vehicles (NGV) are in Asia. At the end of 2019, from at total 28.5 million NGVs in the world, 20.4 million units (72%) were registered in the Asia Pacific region. Similarly, from a total 33,383 natural gas refueling stations in the world, 20,275 stations (61%) are in Asia Pacific.

China currently has the largest NGV fleet in the world. At the end of 2022, there were 5.5 million NGV in China. Of these, 4.8 million are CNG vehicles, and the remainder are LNG vehicles. India stood at the second place with about 5.2 million