HAM hails delivery of 100th LNG filling station
Spanish engineering group HAM hailed on June 30 the delivery of its 100th LNG filling station – a facility in Saint Quentin in France.
The Association of Natural Gas and Biogas Vehicles estimates that there are 400 filling stations in Europe that offer LNG as a fuel, of which one in four have been designed, built and commissioned by HAM, the company said. Many are also owned by HAM, with those facilities located mostly in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
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HAM also offers compressed natural gas as a fuel at many of these stations. The company started using LNG as a fuel for its own fleet in 2000, and went on to build the first public filling station in Spain offering natural gas in 2009.
"The use of LNG in transportation is an important catalyst for climate neutrality, being a real, clean and safe alternative to traditional fossil fuels, drastically reducing emissions of fine particles, nitrogen oxide and CO2, allowing a higher air quality and helping to mitigate global warming," HAM said. "In addition, LNG enables significant fuel cost savings."
HAM has also made inroads in the Latin American market. It opened Peru's first LNG filling station in January, and is also building a facility in Chile.