Chile’s Lipigas and Spain’s HAM have launched a bio-LNG production plant in Chile’s Nuble region. HAM claims this is the first bio-LNG plant in South America.
HAM said on Thursday that the plant liquefies bio-LNG obtained from biogas generated in an anaerobic co-digestion plant that processes organic waste from the pork industry.
The fully automated and remotely managed system will have, in its first phase, a processing capacity of 7,500 cbm/day of biogas, with the goal of reaching 16,500 cbm/day at full operation, according to HAM.
HAM noted that the bio-LNG supplies will be delivered to Lipigas service stations, supplying the truck fleets that travel across Chile with the aim of decarbonizing the road transport sector.
In 2022, HAM and its partner CycleØ announced that they would build what they said was the first bio-LNG production plant in Chile.
Lipigas and HAM completed Chile’s first LNG fueling station for trucks in 2021.
HAM said the Nuble plant joins its other operational projects in Girona (Spain) and Faenza (Italy), “consolidating its international leadership in bio-LNG and expanding its presence in Latin America with new initiatives already underway.”