LNG

Calor, the UK's leading retail supplier of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) with 350,000 commercial customers located off the main gas grid, is building up its loading volumes from National Grid Plc’s import terminal on the Isle of Grain in Kent.

Calor has just announced the loading of its 1,200th LNG truck, which equates to more than 24,000 tonnes of LNG, supplied across the length and breadth of the UK.

“The truck-loading facility on the Isle of Grain, which is located 43 miles east of London, opened in 2015, and Calor was the first LNG supplier to load and deliver to its extensive UK LNG customer base, which ranges from large off-grid industrial applications (including food & beverage and pharmaceutical) to vehicle refuelling, to name a few,” said Calor.

Grain LNG also offers reloads, trans-shipments and other services such as reloading road tankers and ISO containers.

The National Grid subsidiary additionally has plans for a marine breakbulk facility.

Mark Gilks, Calor LNG National Account Manager, said his company was committed to delivering fuel to its customers, especially throughout the current crisis as the UK uses cleaner and greener fuel sources.

“By using LNG instead of more polluting fuels such as oil and diesel derivatives, we have helped UK businesses cut their CO2 emissions by up to 25 percent over the past five years, based on the loadings from the Isle of Grain alone,” said Gilks.

“LNG-powered trucks have comparable performance to diesel vehicles in terms of power, acceleration and cruising speed, but can cut CO2 by between 10 percent and 20 percent, dependeing on duty cycle and vehicle type,” he added.

“LNG also takes up 600 times less space than conventional natural gas making it easy to transport and store compactly in its liquid form,” stated Gilks.

The Calor executive said that the company was grateful to its operational team who have kept on going, particularly over the last few months.

“We’re incredibly proud of what we have achieved and keen to see where the next five years will take us, as we do our bit to promote the use of cleaner energy sources nationwide,” explained Gilks.

The Isle of Grain facility is the largest import terminal in Europe. It has also just launched the second phase of an on-going open season during which the market is invited to make bids with less than a month before the deadline.

Grain LNG is offering up to 300 gigawatt hours per day (7.2 million tonnes per annum of LNG) of redelivery capacity and 380,000 cubic metres of associated storage, to be made available from mid-2025.

An expansion will increase the size of the terminal, situated on the Thames-Medway estuary, to about 1.2 million cubic metres.

Feb 1 (LNGJ) - Calor, the UK’s leading provider of liquified natural gas for fuel stations, has further enhanced its refuelling network for natural gas-powered trucks by upgrading its Aust LNG facility, near the southwest city of Bristol. As part of the Severn View motorway auto-stop area for the services company Moto, the Aust facility is located off the M48 motorway by the Severn River Crossing.

   Calor said it is a vital refuelling stop for LNG-fuelled vehicles using the M4 corridor to travel to London or elsewhere in the UK, and has been upgraded to consider the requirements of mono-fuelled trucks. “As part of this upgrade, the new system uses ‘zero loss’ cooling technology to keep LNG within the storage tank at the ideal temperature and pressure for refuelling vehicles,” said Calor. “Similar work has been carried out at Moto’s Donington Park, Lymm and Grantham service stations, to add to Calor’s growing LNG infrastructure of six public refuelling facilities,” the UK company added.

   Mark Gilks, Transport Specialist at Calor, explained that demand for LNG continues to grow in the haulage industry, especially for long-haul vehicles and Calor continues to invest in its LNG refuelling network, which is the largest in the UK. “Leading truck manufacturers are predicting that, by the early 2020s, vehicles powered by natural gas could account for 20 percent of all HGVs sold.,” said Gilks. “This growing market share highlights the obvious benefits of choosing LNG to power long-haul HGVs now and into the future,” he stated.

Calor, one of the main providers in the UK of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas at filling stations, will showcase its fuel offerings at an exhibition in London as it increases the availability of LNG across the country as part of a government-backed initiative for clean fuel use in British cities.

Calor, the UK provider of LNG and of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), has carried out the first fill-up for Swedish automaker Volvo’s new LNG-powered truck at one of its stations in central England.

Calor, the UK retail and wholesale gas distribution company, said it was investing to help deliver supply infrastructure needed to secure liquefied natural gas as a nationwide trucking fuel of the future.