{"id":10748,"date":"2020-10-07T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ham.es\/problemas-carga-enagas-gnl\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:43:22","slug":"problems-load-enagas-lng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/problems-load-enagas-lng","title":{"rendered":"Enag\u00e1s LNG tanker loading problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_pb_with_background  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1 style=\"font-size: 25px; text-align: center;\"><strong>HAM Group ham advances solutions to the problems of charging tanker truck in Enag\u00e1s<\/strong><\/h1><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2 style=\"font-size: 20px; text-align: center;\"><strong>Part of the loads will be carried out in the methane terminal of Marseille<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_2  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\" data-et-multi-view=\"{&quot;schema&quot;:{&quot;content&quot;:{&quot;desktop&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Assessing the foreseeable problems of lack of tank loading capacity during the winter period, the Enag\\u00e1s\\u2019 plant in Barcelona and the Bah\\u00eda Bizkaia\\u2019s plant, &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ham.es\\\/en\\\/\\&quot; title=\\&quot;HAM Group signs an agreement with the Marseille LNG Terminal to discharge liquefied natural gas\\&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAM Group&lt;\\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\\/a&gt; has signed an important LNG contract at the Marseille Terminal, in order to avoid the shortage of its customers in Spain during this period.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The winter of 2019 passed with great difficulties for drivers when it came to meet their LNG tanker transport commitments, due to the collapse of the few loading terminals for trucks that Enag\\u00e1s makes available to trading companies. Queues of tanker trucks with up to 8 hours of delay to load, together with an unequal priority system, which clearly harm industrial customers and natural gas service stations, caused many customers were out of supply at certain moments.&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;:&quot;Assessing the foreseeable problems of lack of tank loading capacity during the winter period, the Enag\\u00e1s\\u2019 plant in Barcelona and the Bah\\u00eda Bizkaia\\u2019s plant, &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ham.es\\\/en\\\/\\&quot; title=\\&quot;HAM Group signs an agreement with the Marseille LNG Terminal to discharge liquefied natural gas\\&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAM Group&lt;\\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\\/a&gt; has signed an important LNG contract at the Marseille Terminal, in order to avoid the shortage of its customers in Spain during this period.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The winter of 2019 passed with great difficulties for drivers when it came to meet their LNG tanker transport commitments, due to the collapse of the few loading terminals for trucks that Enag\\u00e1s makes available to trading companies. Queues of tanker trucks with up to 8 hours of delay to load, together with an unequal priority system, which clearly harm industrial customers and natural gas service stations, caused many customers were out of supply at certain moments.&quot;},&quot;target&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;hover_selector&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;et_pb_text&quot;}\" data-et-multi-view-load-tablet-hidden=\"true\"><p>Assessing the foreseeable problems of lack of tank loading capacity during the winter period, the Enag\u00e1s\u2019 plant in Barcelona and the Bah\u00eda Bizkaia\u2019s plant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ham.es\/en\/\" title=\"HAM Group signs an agreement with the Marseille LNG Terminal to discharge liquefied natural gas\"><strong>HAM Group<\/strong><\/a> has signed an important LNG contract at the Marseille Terminal, in order to avoid the shortage of its customers in Spain during this period.<\/p>\n<p>The winter of 2019 passed with great difficulties for drivers when it came to meet their LNG tanker transport commitments, due to the collapse of the few loading terminals for trucks that Enag\u00e1s makes available to trading companies. Queues of tanker trucks with up to 8 hours of delay to load, together with an unequal priority system, which clearly harm industrial customers and natural gas service stations, caused many customers were out of supply at certain moments.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/ham.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ham-press-release.webp\" alt=\"HAM Group has closed an important agreement with the Marseille Methane Terminal to be able to refuel LNG at its terminal\" title=\"HAM Group signs LNG agreement with the Marseille Methane Terminal\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ham.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ham-press-release.webp 800w, https:\/\/ham.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ham-press-release-480x292.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-10545\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_3  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\" data-et-multi-view=\"{&quot;schema&quot;:{&quot;content&quot;:{&quot;desktop&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;The trading and transport companies have repeatedly requested Enag\\u00e1s to expand the charging points for greater and necessary efficiency of the current system, which is clearly insufficient.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Far from meeting the continuous requests of customers to Enag\\u00e1s, Technical Manager of the Spanish Gas System, to expand the loading capacities of the tanks, a new auction system has been regulated that predictably leads us to the same problem of collapse of 2019, adding greater speculation and, as a consequence, much higher prices, which border on abuse, and which will inevitably end up having an impact on the end customer.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Given the saturation of the loading docks in the winter season and the lack of sensitivity and vigilance on the part of the Administrative Bodies, in charge of ensuring services of general interest such as this one, as well as the clear and absolute contradiction of the Administration&#039;s discourse for the environmental improvement, promoting the use of liquefied natural gas and biomethane as clean energy in industry and transport, but without providing the basic logistical means to achieve the objectives, HAM Group has decided to anticipate the foreseeable problem to load tankers during the winter period, due to lack of action by Enag\\u00e1s and the current circumstances that we are facing.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Grupo HAM will carry out part of its supplies from the Marseille LNG terminal, in addition to redirecting its fleet among the different Iberian LNG terminals in order to minimize incidents, which as a result of this lack, almost certainly, will be repeated in the coming winter.&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;:&quot;The trading and transport companies have repeatedly requested Enag\\u00e1s to expand the charging points for greater and necessary efficiency of the current system, which is clearly insufficient.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Far from meeting the continuous requests of customers to Enag\\u00e1s, Technical Manager of the Spanish Gas System, to expand the loading capacities of the tanks, a new auction system has been regulated that predictably leads us to the same problem of collapse of 2019, adding greater speculation and, as a consequence, much higher prices, which border on abuse, and which will inevitably end up having an impact on the end customer.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Given the saturation of the loading docks in the winter season and the lack of sensitivity and vigilance on the part of the Administrative Bodies, in charge of ensuring services of general interest such as this one, as well as the clear and absolute contradiction of the Administration&#039;s discourse for the environmental improvement, promoting the use of liquefied natural gas and biomethane as clean energy in industry and transport, but without providing the basic logistical means to achieve the objectives, HAM Group has decided to anticipate the foreseeable problem to load tankers during the winter period, due to lack of action by Enag\\u00e1s and the current circumstances that we are facing.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Grupo HAM will carry out part of its supplies from the Marseille LNG terminal, in addition to redirecting its fleet among the different Iberian LNG terminals in order to minimize incidents, which as a result of this lack, almost certainly, will be repeated in the coming winter.&quot;},&quot;target&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;hover_selector&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;et_pb_text&quot;}\" data-et-multi-view-load-tablet-hidden=\"true\"><p>The trading and transport companies have repeatedly requested Enag\u00e1s to expand the charging points for greater and necessary efficiency of the current system, which is clearly insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Far from meeting the continuous requests of customers to Enag\u00e1s, Technical Manager of the Spanish Gas System, to expand the loading capacities of the tanks, a new auction system has been regulated that predictably leads us to the same problem of collapse of 2019, adding greater speculation and, as a consequence, much higher prices, which border on abuse, and which will inevitably end up having an impact on the end customer.<\/p>\n<p>Given the saturation of the loading docks in the winter season and the lack of sensitivity and vigilance on the part of the Administrative Bodies, in charge of ensuring services of general interest such as this one, as well as the clear and absolute contradiction of the Administration's discourse for the environmental improvement, promoting the use of liquefied natural gas and biomethane as clean energy in industry and transport, but without providing the basic logistical means to achieve the objectives, HAM Group has decided to anticipate the foreseeable problem to load tankers during the winter period, due to lack of action by Enag\u00e1s and the current circumstances that we are facing.<\/p>\n<p>Grupo HAM will carry out part of its supplies from the Marseille LNG terminal, in addition to redirecting its fleet among the different Iberian LNG terminals in order to minimize incidents, which as a result of this lack, almost certainly, will be repeated in the coming winter.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26614,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions\/26614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ham.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}