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HAM Group of Spain, the developer of an expanding European LNG filling station network, plans to provide natural gas fuel on the Pan-American Highway spanning South America starting in Peru.

HAM has set up a joint venture with Peruvian company Limagas called Energía de Valor Ambietal (EVA) to begin providing more LNG and compressed natural gas (CNG) for trucks and automobiles in the region.

HAM already has a network of more than 140 LNG, CNG and biomethane service stations in Europe, mostly on the main Spanish transportation routes.

The HAM-Limagas venture plans to provide LNG an and CNG with proposals to open between 10 and 15 natural gas vehicle filling service stations before December 2025.

Supply points

“The first service stations that EVA will open will be located along the Pan-American Highway, a system that links almost all the countries of the American continent with its more than 17,800 kilometres (11,060 miles) of road,” they said.

“These LNG supply points will be located in Mala, Nazca and Arequipa,” they added, referring to major Peruvian cities near the coastal highway.

The Mala LNG service station will be operational first while it is expected that Nasca and Arequipa will be able to begin offering service during the second half of the year.

“With the creation of EVA ( in English, Energy of Environmental Value), HAM Group and Limagas reinforce their presence in Peru, developing an important growth strategy and taking advantage of the possibilities that Peru can become a benchmark in the Latin American vehicle energy field,” the companies stated.

Volvo trucks

HAM already has Peruvian operations. The Spanish company had earlier announced on May 7 2024 that advances had been made in its business in Peru with Volvo Peru delivering the first LNG tractors to HAM Criogénica Peru, the company’s own trucking company.

These were also the first LNG-fuelled trucks Volvo Peru had delivered on the South American continent.

These vehicles acquired by HAM Perú are characterized by having high pressure direct injection (HPDI), which plays an important role in sustainable solutions for the decarbonization of transportation.

HAM, which also has a widespread road haulage business in Spain, also recently expanded its Spanish network with a strategic filling station for transportation fleets travelling from Madrid to Barcelona.

HAM’s new Torre-Serona Lleida LNG mobile service station is located on the A2 Northeast Highway at KP 463.

Spanish build-out

The A2 Northeast highway is one of the main radial highways in Spain with significant trucking traffic fleets passing through Guadalajara, Zaragoza and Lérida.

HAM sets up mobile service stations in the EU designed and manufactured by HAM subsidiary company, Vakuum.

Its European gas stations are open 24/365 and they are monitored remotely while offering the possibility of contacting technical service and with advanced security systems to guarantee the rapid resolution of incidents during refuelling.

HAM recently inaugurated two other facilities in the Tarragona province of eastern Spain as it builds out its chain of filling stations on the A7 stretching from north of Barcelona to Cadiz in southwest Spain.

HAM Group of Spain, the developer of a growing European LNG filling station network and a major truck fleet owner, has expanded its Spanish network with a strategic filling station for transportation fleets travelling from Madrid to Barcelona.

HAM’s new Torre-Serona Lleida LNG mobile service station is located on the A2 Northeast Highway at KP 463.

The A2 Northeast highway one of the main radial highways in Spain with significant trucking traffic from fleets travelling from Madrid to Barcelona and passing through Guadalajara, Zaragoza and Lérida.

Services

The company said that the HAM Torre-Serona mobile service station was designed and manufactured by Vakuum.

It has a hose that allows refuelling for trucks and heavy vehicles.

“The gas station offers self-service 24/365 and is monitored remotely, offers the possibility of contacting technical service 24/7 by telephone and has advanced security systems to guarantee its operation and the rapid resolution of incidents during refuelling,” explained HAM.

“HAM Group reaffirms its commitment to the decarbonization of transport and sustainable mobility with the opening of this new LNG gas station, which adds to our international network of more than 140 LNG, CNG and biomethane service stations on the main Spanish transport routes,” said the company.

HAM recently inaugurated two other facilities in the Tarragona province of eastern Spain as it builds out its chain of filling stations on the A7 stretching from north of Barcelona to Cadiz in southwest Spain.

Peru operations

The company had earlier announced on May 7 that advances had been made in its busines in Peru with Volvo Peru delivering the first LNG tractors to HAM Criogénica Peru.

These are also the first LNG-fuelled trucks Volvo Peru has delivered on the South American continent.

These vehicles acquired by HAM Perú are characterized by having high pressure direct injection (HPDI), which plays an important role in sustainable solutions for the decarbonization of transportation.

HPDI is a fuel system technology that is applied in vehicles with internal combustion engines to replace fuels that emit greenhouse gases, such as diesel, with carbon-neutral fuels, such as biomethane, significantly reducing CO2 emissions

The HAM group of companies in Spain, France, Italy and Peru has been the most prominent in introducing these more efficient and reliable vehicles as the main trucks in its fleet and totalling more than 100 Volvo HPDI units this coming year.

HAM Group of Spain, the developer of a growing European LNG filling station network and a major truck fleet owner, is expanding activities in Peru with the Peruvian subsidiary of HAM signing an agreement for the delivery of new Volvo LNG-powered trucks.

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.

The European liquefied gas fuel filling station network is growing throughout Europe with two of the latest facilities for LNG as well as compressed natural gas being opened in Sweden and Spain.

HAM Group of Spain has just opened its Benavente-Zamora station for LNG and CNG located at Cañada Berciana 9A, next to the A-6 (Northwest highway), one of the six radial highways in Spain, and the N-630, one of the longest Spanish national highways.

“The new service station, designed and built by HAM subsidiary HAM Criogénica has two LNG dispensers (three hoses), to refuel trucks and heavy vehicles and two CNG dispensers (three hoses), to refuel cars, light vehicles, and trucks,” explained the Spanish company.

With this new opening, the Spanish group has a network with more than 115 service stations located on the main transport routes in Spain and the rest of Europe.

“We continue to bet on CNG, LNG and Biomethane as real sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels, helping to reduce polluting emissions and respecting the environment,” stated HAM.

Gasum network

Finnish energy company Gasum also continues to expand its gas filling station network in the Nordic region.

It has just opened a new facility in the northern Swedish town of Luleå selling biogas, a form of LNG made from waste.

“The Luleå station is a result of cooperation between Sandahls Logistik and Gasum,” said the Helsinki-based, state-owned Gasum.
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“Gasum can now offer both CNG and liquefied gas to transport companies operating locally in the northernmost part of Sweden. Since it has full control and ownership over the whole value chain, Gasum can extend the corridor of stations by another 250 kilometres,” explained Gasum.

Gasum now has 23 liquefied gas filling stations across Sweden and a total of more than 50 in the Nordic countries and some of these are operated by Gasum’s partners.

Sandahls Logistik is a family-owned logistics company the filling station in Luleå is Gasum’s second station built in conjunction with Sandahls Logistik. The first opened recently in Vårgårda, in western Sweden.

“As the filling station infrastructure expands into new regions, there will be a growing number of gas-powered vehicles on Swedish roads,” said Gasum.

“Several companies have already signalled that an expansion of the gas filling station network allows for completely new possibilities, such as switching over to lower emissions transports in northern Sweden,” it added.

“This new station is very special to us because it shows Gasum's capability to equip Sweden with gas filling stations from head to foot, from Luleå in the north to Malmö in the south,” stated Gasum

Nov 17 (LNGJ) - HAM Group of Spain, a European leader in LNG and compressed natural gas filling stations for trucks and cars, has acquired a 40 percent stake in Peruvian company Limagas Movilidad, a developer of service stations in Peru.

   With this acquisition, HAM said it was reinforcing its presence in Peru, the only LNG producer and exporter in South America since Argentina ceased liquefaction activities. “HAM Group aims to become a force in the Latin American clean energy field, investing over the next few years in the development of the first Peruvian service stations for LNG for long-distance truck transportation and CNG for passenger cars and light vehicles,” said the company.

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.

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.

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.