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.

HAM Group of Spain, the developer of a growing European LNG filling station network and with other stations opened in South America, has inaugurated another facility on the Andalusia regional highway.

May 10 (LNGJ) - HAM Group of Spain, the developer of a growing European LNG filling station network, is also expanding into South America with a second LNG service station in Chile. HAM Chile will be in charge of the engineering process of the LNG station as part of a joint venture with regional operator Empresas Lipigas. The existing LNG station is located at the fuelling base of trucking company Transportes San Gabriel, in Linares, 300 kilometres south of the Chilean capital Santiago.

   HAM said the second station would be located in Tabolango in the Valparaíso region and about 10 kilometres from Concón, a coastal city in central Chile and will open in June. “This new station will connect the regions of Valparaíso and Maule through a means of transport with cleaner energy. Our objective of having a green transport corridor at the national level in Chile is advancing rapidly,” said Esteban Rodríguez, Manager of LNG and Biofuels at Lipigas.

April 29 (LNG) - Grupo HAM, the Spanish LNG fuel provider building a filling station network in Europe, has opened a new service facility at a key French traffic axis for truckers and vehicles. HAM said the LNG station is at Montmarault in France, located on the road to Moulins near exit 11 of the A71. This is the motorway that connects Orleans with Clermont-Ferrand, and the nearby E62 which connects Limoges with Macon.

   “The new LNG service station in Montmarault, France, is open 24 hours a day throughout the year and is monitored to guarantee perfect operations and to quickly resolve any incidents,” said the company. HAM’s LNG station network is currently made up of more than 100 service stations, which are available on the main transport routes in Spain and Europe.

Grupo Ham, the Spanish company from Europe’s largest importing nation which has opened almost 100 filling stations amounting to around 25 percent of existing facilities in Western Europe for LNG-powered trucks and other vehicles, has opened another facility in the city of Seville.

HAM said it opened a new LNG service station in Dos Hermanas, Seville, located in 8 Río Viejo street of La Isla Industrial Estate, next to the Autovía del Sur, also known as the Andalucía highway, one of the six main highways in Spain and the main transportation route between the centre of Spain and the south of the Iberian Peninsula.

HAM has installed a mobile unit in Dos Hermanas that allows the refuelling of LNG for heavy vehicles and trucks.

“It has a hose that allows users to refuel quickly and safely, and a payment terminal where you can pay with any debit or credit card or the HAM Card for professional use,” said the company.

“With the new opening of HAM Dos Hermanas LNG, our network currently has more than 90 service stations, available on the main European and Spanish transport routes,” it added.

EU expansion

The Spanish group said that apart from Spain it now had an expanding European Union-wide service network of stations including Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

“At HAM Group we work in continuous contact with our clients, offering them products and services that are adapted to their real energy needs, respectful of the environment by reducing emissions of fine particles, oxides nitrous and CO2,” the company stated.

The group also recently launched a new concept of mobile and transportable service stations.

Its EDUX product has been developed by its subsidiary HAM Criogénica, together with HAM’s research and development team.

The EDUX service station allows owners and operators to store and supply LNG for all types of trucks and heavy vehicles, keeping the liquid sub-cooled and adapting to the optimal temperature of the different brands.

The mobile units offer fast re-fuelling for Volvo, Scania or Iveco LNG-powered trucks. At the same time, the units allow fuel filling for compressed natural gas in cars, light vehicles and trucks.

The group has also expanded its network by opening several natural gas stations in the South American nations of Chile and Peru.

“EDUX is a modern mobile service station, which is monitored remotely, by registering different parameters, always guaranteeing its perfect operation and allowing a   quick solution to any incident,” explained HAM.

Grupo HAM, the Spanish company that has opened more than 100 filling stations and now operates around 25 percent of existing facilities in Europe for LNG-powered trucks and other vehicles, has launched a new concept of mobile and transportable service stations.

The group’s new mobile unit, which is called EDUX, has been developed by its subsidiary HAM Criogénica, together with HAM’s research and development team who have been in charge of the design and construction.

The EDUX service station allows owners and operators to store and supply LNG for all types of trucks and heavy vehicles, keeping the liquid subcooled and adapting to the optimal temperature of the different brands.

The mobile units offer fast re-fuelling for Volvo, Scania or Iveco LNG-powered trucks. At the same time, the units allow fuel filling for compressed natural gas in cars, light vehicles and trucks.

HAM’s own network of LNG and CNG facilities is expanding in a growing number of countries with more than 30 in Spain and the others spread around the EU in France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands.

The group has also expanded its network by opening several natural gas stations in the South American nations of Chile and Peru.

The new mobile unit LNG filling station concept has 60,000 litres (60 cubic metres) of LNG capacity and works at low pressures (2-3 bar), has a submerged pump and can supply up to 12,000 kg/h of LNG and 300 Kg/h of CNG, with a capacity storage of 7,000Kg of CNG.

“The gas station has two ‘on the fly’ conditioning systems and has two LNG dispensers and two CNG dispensers, with an innovative nozzle, designed by HAM, with a 'no frost' system and a double anchoring system and closing, avoiding leaks or losses of liquid, in addition to facilitating disconnection without emissions of gas into the air,” explained HAM in a statement.

The selection of fuel and payments can be made independently at each of the dispensers, using any debit or credit card or the HAM Card for professional users.

“EDUX is a modern mobile service station, which is monitored remotely, by registering different parameters, always guaranteeing its perfect operation and allowing to quickly solve any incident,” added HAM

“At Grupo HAM, we continue to work and innovate, in direct contact with our customers, to develop high-quality and reliable advances in the improvement of CNG-LNG logistics infrastructures and services, taking respect for the environment as a starting point,” stated the company.

Cryostar, the liquefied natural gas equipment maker, whose products for vehicle filling stations are meeting rising demand from a widening network in Europe and North America, has launched a new fuel dispenser.

Nov 9 (LNGJ) - Grupo HAM of Spain has inaugurated a new LNG filling station at Valdemoro in Madrid, located at Narciso Monturiol 28, not far from the A-4, also known as the South Highway, and adding to its network of 80 natural gas filling stations.

   “Valdemoro's new LNG mobile gas station has a 60 cubic metres capacity tank, with an LNG dispenser, which allows our customers to refuel quickly and safely, with a performance equal to that of our fixed stations,” said a statement. “Valdemoro is monitored remotely by our team to guarantee its perfect operation and quickly solve any incident. In addition, our clients can contact our technicians by calling the 24-hour telephone number that we put at their disposal,” added the company.

Grupo HAM of Spain, the European Union liquefied natural gas filling station network owner, has completed a project to bring the South American nation of Chile its first LNG fuel station after previously opening a facility in Peru.

July 23 (LNGJ) - Grupo HAM of Spain has opened another LNG filling station aimed at truckers at a strategic Spanish traffic location in Navalmanzano, Segovia, northwest of Madrid in Central Spain on the SG-332, next to the entrance and exit of the A-601, known as the Pinares highway.

   “The Gas Station allows LNG refuelling for all makes of trucks and keeps the liquid sub-cooled and adapts immediately to the optimal temperature of the trucks, including Iveco, Scania and Volvo,” explained HAM. “This allows for fast and safe refuelling with an innovative nozzle, designed by HAM, with a ‘nofrost’ system and a double anchoring and closing system, to avoid leaks, liquid losses and to facilitate its disconnection without emitting gas into the air,” stated HAM.