Category: HAM NEWS

The new service station will offer CNG

HAM Group opens a new compressed natural gas service station in Terrassa, located at the Petro Low Cost facilities on Carretera de Montcada, 670 (GPS: 41.557000, 2.035290), next to the N-150 and close to the C- 16 and C-58, an important access to Barcelona from the northwest, with a large traffic of vehicles for professional and private use.

HAM Terrassa offers its customers a double CNG dispenser, for cars, light vehicles and trucks, with free access and 24/7 opening hours, throughout the year. Payment can be made with any debit / credit card, in addition to the HAM card for professionals, used by freelancers and companies.

CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) is a real sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, reducing emissions of nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides and fine particles that affect air quality. In addition, vehicles that use NGV allow reducing noise pollution, by producing 50% less noise and vibrations, and significant savings of 30-50% thanks to our prices.

It should be noted that vehicles that use CNG have the DGT ECO label, which allows free access to city centers during periods of high pollution, as well as tax incentives, discounts in regulated parking areas and tolls, depending on the community autonomous where they are.

With the opening of this new vehicular natural gas service station, HAM continues with its firm commitment to sustainable mobility, expanding its network of service stations, which currently it is made up of more than 80 Gas Stations, located on the main transport routes in Spain, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy.

HAM works, together with its subsidiaries, to finalize new projects for compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas service stations, expanding our network of service stations to provide our customers with access to an environmentally friendly fuel.

More than 9 million kilos of liquid Biomethane or BIO/LNG will be produced annually

HAM Italy is developing in Faenza, Italy, one of the largest 100% vehicular Biomethane plants in Europe, with an estimated annual capacity of 9 million kilos, equivalent to 140GWh / year.

The project starts from the biogas generated by 2 digesters owned by Caviro Spa, an Italian wine cooperative, where they recover by-products derived from the wine and agri-food chain, which is transformed into biogas. FNX Liquid Natural Gas, a subsidiary of the Ham Group, is in charge of designing and manufacturing the equipment necessary to purify the biogas, up to CO2 contents below 50 ppm, suitable for liquefying; as well as the liquefaction train that allows obtaining Bio LNG ready for transportation, bound for service stations. It should be noted that the entire installation works with electricity of renewable origin, not producing polluting emissions or greenhouse gases.

Biomethane or BIOGNL, also known as green gas, is characterized by its negative carbon footprint, making it a real and ecological alternative in the energy transition, allowing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and helping to combat the climate change.

On the other hand, this project will contribute to the Circular Economy, favoring the local economy, generating employment, returning resources and nutrients to the soil, and as a sustainable alternative to incineration or landfills. It will also allow energy independence, as it does not have to depend on international markets or large corporations, having an important supply terminal in Italy.
In addition, the new 100% vehicular biomethane plant will allow a reduction of more than 600,000 km / year in road traffic of the LNG tanks with which the HAM Italy currently supplies northern Italy, from the port terminals, thus reducing road traffic in general and CO2 emissions.

HAM Italy, with the development of one of the largest European Bio LNG plants for vehicular use, offers a comprehensive solution to customers who have biogas, taking charge of designing, manufacturing and operating all the necessary equipment that allows optimizing the process: Upgrading, compression Bio CNG, Bio LNG liquefaction, transportation through virtual gas pipeline and sale of biomethane at service stations. We continue to innovate and offer our customers products that are adapted to their real energy needs.

The new service station allows you to refuel Liquefied Natural Gas

HAM Group inaugurates in Caudete, Albacete, a new LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) gas station, located in Pol. Ind. Los Villares, Ctra. D-12 Estación, S / N (How to get there), very close to the A- 31, also known as the Alicante highway, which connects Alicante with Albacete, central Spain and Madrid. This highway, in its section from Caudete to Alicante, forms together with the A-35, the A-7 and the A-33, an alternative route to the AP-7 between Valencia and Alicante.

The mobile unit in Caudete, Albacete, is an innovative refueling station that allows the supply of liquefied natural gas to heavy vehicles and trucks. Customers can freely access our service station, which is open 24/7 throughout the year. Payments can be made with any credit / debit card and also with the HAM card for professionals, exclusively for freelancers and companies.

HAM Group makes available to its customers a network made up of more than 80 service stations, fixed and mobile, that allow to refuel CNG and / or LNG, distributed in the main national and European routes. Our mobile gas stations allow access, to liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas, in those points where they still cannot enjoy these alternative, sustainable and environmentally friendly fuels, since the polluting emissions of CO2, nitrous oxides and particles fine, are reduced compared to other traditional fuels, allowing better air quality.

It should be noted that both LNG and CNG allow significant savings, of between 30-50%, thanks to our prices. In addition, these vehicles reduce the noise of their engines and enjoy the ECO label of the DGT, as well as other advantages, depending on the different autonomous communities.

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

HAM service stations will offer vehicular biomethane

HAM Group has developed the first 100% vehicular Biomethane project in Spain, which will allow our customers to enjoy biofuel at our service stations.

The project starts from the biogas generated in an anaerobic codigestion plant of residues, coming from the agri-food industry and from a cattle farm, located in the Farm Mas Jonquer de Vilanant, Girona. The biogas plant is owned by Apergas, a company dedicated to the engineering, development and operation of biogas plants.
Our subsidiary FNX Liquid Natural Gas has installed a modular upgrading equipment, developed by our engineers and R&D department. This upgrading equipment allows to purify the biogas, which contains 50-60% methane, increasing its quality and obtaining a methane purity higher than 99%.

Once the biomethane, also known as green gas, is available, it goes through a compression equipment that allows its pressure to be increased to 250 bar, to be stored in tube trailers, which are used to transport the vehicular biomethane, through a virtual gas pipeline, destined for service stations, where 200 Nm3h of biogas will be managed, equivalent to 2000 Kg of Bio CNG per day.

HAM, taking advantage of the availability of compressed biomethane at source, will also install a dispenser in Vilanant, which will allow vehicles in the area to be refueled, reinforcing our network of service stations, made up of more than 80 points of compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas, which allow you to circulate on the main national and European routes, with a more ecological and economical fuel.

For Toni Murugó, Marketing Director of HAM Group, “Biomethane has great potential and will play an important role in the energy transition, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, which affect climate change, thanks to its negative carbon footprint. In addition, it is a renewable energy that contributes to the Circular Economy, favoring the local economy, generating employment in rural areas, returning resources and nutrients to the soil, and as a sustainable alternative to incineration or landfills”.

With this new project at HAM Group we can offer a comprehensive solution to all those customers who have biogas, but do not have a gas pipeline, since we take care of upgrading, compression, the virtual pipeline and the sale of biomethane at our service stations. In this way, we continue to innovate in all our projects, providing our clients with new technologies and products that adapt to their real energy needs.

FNX Liquid Natural Gas, with extensive experience in numerous technological sectors, is an expert in the design, manufacture and installation of natural gas plants & upgrading, in a modular format. It has its own manufacturing facilities in the Basque Country, where all products are developed and subjected to high quality standards before they are delivered.

The new station is located in Velilla de San Antonio

A new liquefied natural gas (LNG) service station opens in Madrid, located at the Transportes Carrasco facilities, at Calle Tambora 4, Velilla de San Antonio, Madrid (GPS: 40.346005, -3.469620), next to the M-208, one of the roads of the main network of the Community of Madrid, which connects the M-300 in Arganda del Rey with the M-203, at the height of Mejorada del Campo.

HAM Carrasco, designed, built and start up by HAM Criogénica, it has been possible thanks to the commitment of HAM Group and Transportes Carrasco for Liquefied Natural Gas for road transport, with the aim of reducing emissions. The new service station has a deposit of 80m3 tank of 18bar pressure, with a liquefied natural gas dispenser for trucks and heavy vehicles, which can be freely accessed 24/7, throughout the year. Payments can be made with any debit / credit card, in addition to being able to use the HAM card for professionals, exclusively for freelancers and companies.

LNG is a real, clean and safe alternative to fossil fuels, which helps to mitigate the greenhouse effect on the environment, due to the reduction of polluting emissions compared to other fuels. Liquefied natural gas reduces fine particles by 95%, nitrous oxides by 35% and CO2 emissions by 15%, resulting in better air quality.

It should be noted that vehicles powered by LNG manage to reduce the noise of their engines by 50%, and a saving of 30-50%, thanks to our prices, compared to other fuels. They also have the ECO label from the DGT, which allow access to cities in episodes of high pollution, as well as tax incentives and discounts, depending on the different autonomous communities.

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 compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas service stations, which allow them to circulate on the main national and European routes, with a more ecological and economical fuel, being able to travel distances of up to 1600km without the need to refuel.

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

Mi Ciudad a todo gas interview with the Marketing Director of HAM Group

Is sustainability for the HAM Group a strategic element for the management of the company?
HAM Group, consider sustainability as a strategic element for the management of the company. The strategic decisions of the company have always been made from a sustainable point of view. We are a company in constant change and evolution, always trying to have the best available technology that allows us to take another step towards zero emissions.

HAM Group HAM was a pioneer in its commitment to NGV service stations in Spain. What is the current situation of the deployment of the gas station network in Spain and at what rate do you think the current gas station infrastructure will grow in the coming years?
Currently HAM has more than 25 CNG supply points and 27 LNG supply point for heavy vehicles, all of them open to the public. In total there are about 100 CNG points and 66 LNG points in Spain.
In 2020, despite the difficulties, HAM has opened 7 new CNG points and another 6 LNG points, being the year with the most new openings. This is a general market trend, since 2020 is the year with the most openings of NGV stations and there are already several companies that have communicated their intention to expand the supply network.
For this 2021 in HAM we will exceed our own figures and we are convinced that by the middle of the year we will have more openings than in 2020.

Do you have vehicles powered by natural gas in your transportation fleet? What advantages would you highlight of vehicular natural gas compared to other technologies?
Our entire fleet of heavy vehicles is powered by natural gas. Light vehicles and cars are natural gas except one electric. Natural gas vehicles allow freedom of movement and flexibility that other technologies do not offer. The handling and feel are the same as conventional vehicles, but they reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful particles. It is a technology of the present with a long history and possibilities to further reduce the carbon footprint at a global level. All this at a price similar to that of a conventional vehicle and an operating cost that is reduced by about 50%.

Do you consider that biomethane will have a relevant weight in Spanish sustainable mobility in the coming years?
We believe that biomethane should be the center of new technology developments. With biomethane a circle is closed that allows not only not to increase greenhouse gases but also globally these would be reduced.
Biomethane production is carried out on farms, landfills, food companies ... Many of these productions are owned by small companies, some in the primary sector. With the use of biomethane we are boosting the local economy, nearby companies and whose benefit remains in our country and to a large extent in our towns.
We believe that sustainability is not just an ecological issue. That our country begins to be energy self-sufficient and that energy production is concentrated in thousands of small producers, we believe is the most sustainable energy management model.

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These gas stations will be the first to offer LNG in Peru

HAM builds together with LIMAGAS Movilidad, a investee Company by Lipigas and HAM Group, the first CNG service stations in the Cuzco region and the first LNG gas stations in Peru.

The first CNG station that has been put into operation, inaugurated on December 29, is the Biocom compressed natural gas station, located on Avenida la Cultura s / n km 6, in the district of San Jerónimo (GPS: -13.544790, -71.894034). This is one of the main avenues of the city of Cuzco, extending from west to east between the districts of Cuzco, Wnachaq, San Sebastián and San Jerónimo, with an extension of almost 13 kilometers, which makes it the longest avenue in the city, with significant vehicle traffic.

The service station offers its customers an 80m3 LNG tank, with a CNG pump and 2 double dispensers that allow refueling compressed natural gas. In addition, the first gas station in Cuzco is ready to expand with a liquefied natural gas supplier.

The Cuzco gas station is the first of the three projected vehicular natural gas stations, to which a second station in Cuzco and another in Quillabamba will be added throughout 2021.

During the inauguration, the authorities of the Regional Government of Cuzco declared that "with this vehicular natural gas station the energy matrix will be promoted and changed, and it will also serve to lower fuel costs." For its part, the Camisea Consortium, in charge of the most important energy project in Peru, highlighted the benefit for the inhabitants of Cuzco, "bringing them a much more economical and environmentally friendly energy."

With these new projects, HAM Group continues to help promote the use of CNG-LNG in South America, where our subsidiary HAM Chile was chosen, by Empresas Lipigas, for the design, construction and commissioning of the first liquefied natural gas station in Chile.

We currently make available to all our clients a network of service stations made up of 75 LNG and / or CNG Gas Stations, of which 30 are in Spain, 16 in Italy, 9 in Belgium, 12 in Holland and 8 in France, all located at strategic points for road transport.

Tper S.p.a. refuels in Bologna its new fleet of buses with our mobile unit LNG HAM Italia, the first we have in the Italian market. Find out how it works thanks to this video.

HAM Card customers can refuel at PitPoint Gas Stations

HAM Group continues to expand its network of LNG service stations in Europe, thanks to the agreement reached with the Dutch company PitPoint, which will allow the HAM Card users, to refuel at 2 new stations, in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The first of these stations is Rekkem, located at Lar, Rijksweg 746, 8930, Belgium (GPS: 50.774923, 3.187968), close to the French border, close to the E17 / A14 motorway, between Kortrijk and Lille, which makes it a favorable location for transport throughout the Benelux.

Regarding the Netherlands station, it is the Zwolle station, located at Kleefstraat 7, 8028 PR (GPS: 52.538360, 6.170244), next to the N758 and 10 minutes from the A28, motorway that crosses the Dutch provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland, Overijssel, Drenthe and Groningen.

The LNG stations of PitPoint.LNG are unmanned and accessible 24/7. Step-by-step refuelling instructions are available in 11 different languages and can be selected via the top button of the pump display. In addition, the stations in Zwolle (the Netherlands) and Rekkem (Belgium) have extra cold LNG (for a better range) available, especially for Volvo trucks.

PitPoint will soon open new liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas service stations in Germany, which will be added to the network of service stations that Grupo HAM makes available to all its customers.

Currently, HAM Group makes available to all its customers a network of service stations made up of 76 LNG and / or CNG gas stations, of which 30 are in Spain, 16 in Italy, 9 in Belgium, 14 in the Netherlands and 7 in France, all located in strategic points for road transport.

At HAM we work day by day, together with our subsidiaries, to offer the best products and services related to natural gas, expanding our network of service stations in Spain and the rest of Europe, making a real energy alternative available to our customers to fossil fuels. LNG and CNG are clean and environmentally friendly fuels, which manage to reduce the environmental impact, with a lower emission of CO2, nitrous oxides and fine particles. In addition, liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas offer an important economic advantage, since they allow savings between 30-50% compared to other fuels that are less respectful with the environment.

The Gas Station is part of the Yellow Project of HAM Group

HAM Group launched an LNG mobile station in Rubena, Burgos in 2016, property of Beroil, which, thanks to the development of our Yellow Project, has become a new fixed station, where customers can refuel liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas.

HAM Criogénica has been in charge, together with our R&D department, of the design, construction and commissioning of an ultra-compact facility, which has an underground tank, as in Irún, Gipuzkoa, where we were pioneers when building the first LNG-CNG station in Europe with the tank underground. This has allowed the installation of the equipment in a location of only 300m² in size, making 95% of the gas station surface passable, while eliminating any impact on vehicle traffic flows and reducing the aesthetic impact.

The new service station, property of Beroil, is located on the Madrid-Irún N-1 Highway, kilometer 247 (How to get there), next to the A1, also known as the Autovía del Norte, which connects Madrid with France, which makes it one of the main communication axes with the north of the country, as well as with the rest of Europe. It is also close to the AP-1 or North Highway, which connects Vitoria-Gasteiz with Irún.

The gas station has a buried tank with a capacity of 80.000 liters of LNG, which works at low pressures (2-3bar), with the capacity to supply up to 12.000Kg/h of LNG and 10.000 kilos of CNG per day. The service station has a buried coldbox, an “on the fly” conditioning system and 2 double dispensers (4 nozzles) of Liquefied Natural Gas for trucks and heavy vehicles, and 1 double dispenser (2 nozzle) of Compressed Natural Gas for cars, light vehicles and trucks.

The opening hours are 24 hours, throughout the year, being able to freely access and make payments with any credit or debit card. Companies and freelancers can enjoy our HAM card for professionals.

Currently HAM has an extensive network made up of 74 service stations, between fixed and mobile, in Spain and the main European routes. We continue to bet on CNG and LNG, as an alternative fuel, with the aim of minimizing environmental impact. Compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas are clean and sustainable fuels, which reduce emissions of CO2, nitrous oxides and fine particles, also allowing significant savings of 30-50% for customers, compared to the price of other fuels.

HAM Group continues working to expand its network of LNG-CNG Gas Stations in Spain and the rest of Europe.