Greece’s Blue Grid, a part of Madrid-based small-scale LNG player Molgas, has launched what it says is Greece’s first LNG and CNG station for vehicles.
Molgas announced the opening of the new LNG/CNG station in Thessaloniki in a social media post on Monday.
The firm said the launch of this station will be followed by the opening of stations in Athens, Patras, and Ioannina.
In June last year, Blue Grid revealed plans to build four LNG fueling stations for trucks in Greece.
This will be the first network of LNG fueling stations for vehicles in Greece.
In addition to fueling stations, Blue Grid recently started supplying LNG to compatriot dairy firm Kolios.
Blue Grid says this is the first industrial LNG customer in Greece.
The company loads LNG on its semi-trailers at DESFA’s Revithoussa truck loading facility and transports it to a storage and regasification station located within Kolios’s premises and built by Blue Grid.
Molgas, backed by French infrastructure fund investor InfraVia, purchased Blue Grid in 2022.
In December last year, Molgas appointed the founder of Athens-based Blue Grid, Sofoklis Papanikolaou, as CEO of the group and he also joined the board of directors of the company.
Molgas has significantly expanded its operations in the last four years, including the industrial sector, truck filling stations, and bunkering.
Besides Blue Grid, the group completed a deal with LNG giant Shell to buy Norway’s Gasnor in 2021, and it also bought last year a 45 percent stake in Dutch LNG supplier Titan.