Enagás will launch a BioLNG supply service at the company's regasification terminals in Barcelona and Huelva, which will allow this decarbonised fuel to be loaded onto tankers and ships, enabling the company to continue advancing in its mission to contribute to the European decarbonisation objectives.
This service, which will come into operation in March 2025, will use interconnected infrastructure so that biomethane injected into the gas network is recognised as BioLNG – a liquid biofuel obtained by processing domestic and industrial organic waste – and is supplied from these regasification terminals.
The terminals in Barcelona and Huelva will be able to offer this service due to the fact that they comply with the environmental, social, and traceability criteria established by the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification of the European Union (ISCC EU) and the European Commission.
This service, which will come into operation in March 2025, will use interconnected infrastructure so that biomethane injected into the gas network is recognised as BioLNG – a liquid biofuel obtained by processing domestic and industrial organic waste – and is supplied from these regasification terminals.
This milestone adds the work by Enagás, during which it has coordinated projects for the decarbonisation of maritime transport, such as Core LNGas Hive and LNGas Hive 2, and has invested in small scale infrastructure in all its terminals to adapt them to the market. Furthermore, the company has actively participated in the development of specific procedures and regulations for ship refuelling systems (bunkering).
As a result, bunkering has seen exponential growth in recent years in Spain, increasing its activity ninefold from 2022 to 3.8 TW/h supplied in 2024. Out of this total, 3.1 TW/h were loaded onto small vessels (ship to ship [STS]) and the remaining 0.7 TW/h by tankers (truck to ship [TTS]), which represents a 2.4-fold increase compared to the amounts charged in 2023.
The Huelva and Barcelona terminals have carried out much of the LNG bunkering supply in Spain in 2024 and have already surpassed – since the start of this type of operations – 300 refuellings to small scale vessels in these two terminals.
The new bioLNG service will help consolidate this growth, reaffirming Enagás' commitment to sustainability and contributing to a cleaner, more efficient future.