LNG

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.

July 17 (LNGJ) - The HAM Group of Spain, a European market leader in LNG and compressed natural gas fuel retailing with a network of over 70 filling stations, has opened a permanent LNG-CNG station at the busy French border crossing near the Basque town of Irún.

   The group’s subsidiary, HAM Criogénica, has opened the 24-hour Antxotxipi Kalea station next to the AP-8, also known as the Cantabrian Highway, the Basque Country coastal road linking Irún to Bilbao. “The service station has a double LNG pump for trucks and heavy vehicle, and a double CNG pump for supplying passenger cars, light vehicles and trucks,” said the company.