Gasum Will Open Its Northernmost Natural Gas Filling Station in Norway

(Gasum/NGV Journal) As of early August, Gasum’s northernmost natural gas filling station in Norway will be ready to open in Heggstadmoen. The new facility, also the first of its kind in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, will supply LNG, CNG and biomethane, and is a cooperation between Gasum and the cooperative retail chain Coop. The area is a heavy traffic hub, which gives the station an ideal location, integrating Gasum’s LNG station network in the Oslo region with stations such as Östersund and Umeå in the northern parts of Sweden.

“The filling station location south of Trondheim is ideal since it will serve both the many logistics actors in the area and the long-haul transports operating on the route between Trondheim and Oslo. I am very happy to implement this solution that offers a swift reduction in emissions for several operators in the heavy road transport sector. Natural gas is a cost-efficient way of reducing emissions and this solution is available already today. There is considerable interest in using this filling station and several companies have signaled that this opens up completely new opportunities for them to transition to low-emission transport,” said John Melby, Director Traffic Norway, at Gasum.

Gasum’s first NGV station in Trondheim is sited on land owned by Coop and will be used to supply Coop with renewable natural gas for its transport partners and help to reduce emissions from heavy transports. The station will be open to all actors wishing to fill up with biomethane. “For Coop, this is an important cooperation project. Renewable biogas is a very good alternative for contributing to reduced climate impact from Coop’s transports and we look forward to the station opening,” commented Tor Inge Hegvold, Coop Director Logistics, Region Mid-Norway.

“For Coop, this provides assurance that we can utilize the potential in the investments we make in biogas vehicles. Once we are able to fill up with biogas both at our main warehouse at Gardermoen as well as at the warehouse in Trondheim, we can run on low emissions both ways,” added Hegvold.

Norway has set a national goal of reducing emissions by at least 50% by 2030. By reducing carbon emissions from road traffic and by using renewable fuels, such as biogas, the industry believes a 70% reduction in total emissions can be reached if 20% of the heavy transport market switches to biomethane READ MORE