LNG

HAM Group of Spain, the developer of a growing European LNG filling station network, has inaugurated two more facilities in the Tarragona province of eastern Spain to take its network total to 142 facilities in Europe.

Grupo HAM of Spain, the fuel infrastructure company with a station network, has opened a new LNG filling station in the Spanish capital Madrid, taking its number of stations to 80 in Europe and South America.

Ham said the LNG fuel facility was located at the Transportes Carrasco facilities at Velilla de San Antonio at the M-208, one of the main roads in Madrid.

The HAM Carrasco station has been designed and built by the HAM Group and Transportes Carrasco for LNG for road transport, especially trucks.

The new service station has a 80 cubic metres tank of 18bar pressure, with an LNG dispenser for trucks and heavy vehicles, which can be freely accessed 24/7 and throughout the year.

“With the opening of the new HAM Carrasco gas station, our customers can refuel in an extensive network, in continuous expansion, made up of 80 LNG and compressed natural gas stations, which allow them to circulate on the main national and European routes,” said HAM

The company noted that an average truck filling up with LNG is able to travel distances of up to 1,600 kilometres without the need to refuel.

“At HAM Group we continue working together with our subsidiaries to develop new projects and continue to expand our network of LNG and CNG service stations in Spain and the rest of Europe,” it added.

HAM's network of LNG and CNG stations comprises 33 in Spain, 16 in Italy, 12 in the Netherlands, nine in Belgium, eight in France and one each in Chile and Peru.

In its most recent South American opening HAM partnered with Peruvian firm Limagas to build the first LNG and CNG station in Peru, an LNG exporting nation.

The station is on one of the main avenues of the city of Cuzco, located in the Peruvian Andes.

The Cuzco CGN-LNG gas station is the first of three planned natural gas stations in Peru, including a second station in Cuzco and another to be opened at Quillabamba during 2021.

Grupo HAM of Spain, the LNG and gas fuel infrastructure company, said it partnered with Peruvian firm Limagas to build the first LNG and compressed natural gas station in the South American nation of Peru, an LNG exporting nation.

The station is on one of the main avenues of the city of Cuzco, located in the Peruvian Andes.

The service station currently offers its customers CNG and with its two double dispensers and 80 cubic metres LNG tank will soon be filled with fuel.

“The Cuzco CGN-LNG gas station is the first of three planned natural gas stations in Peru, including a second station in Cuzco and another to be opened at Quillabamba during 2021,” said HAM.

With these new projects, HAM continues to help promote the use of LNG and CNG in South America, where its subsidiary HAM Chile was chosen by local Chilean company Empresas Lipigas to design, construct and commissioning the first LNG fuel in Chile.

HAM’s Peruvian project partner Limagas is an affiliate of Empresas Lipigas.

This station will be sited at fuel facilities of Transportes San Gabriel in Linares, 300 kilometres south of the Chilean capital Santiago.

While Chile is an LNG importer, Peru has been an LNG exporter since 2010 with a plant at Pampa Melchorita comprising two liquefaction Trains and annual output of around 4 million tonnes per annum.

HAM said that the Cuzco station is on Avenida la Cultura, which extends from west to east between the districts of Cuzco, Wnachaq, San Sebastián and San Jerónimo, with significant vehicle traffic.

During the station’s inauguration, the authorities of the Regional Government of Cuzco said that having a natural gas filling station changed the nation’s energy matrix and would help lower fuel costs.

HAM now has a network of 75 LNG and CNG stations. They are located mostly in Europe with 30 in Spain, 16 in Italy, 12 in the Netherlands, nine in Belgium and eight in France, all sited at strategic points for truck transport.