• The company has invested close to 1 million euros in the facilities, which are capable of supplying 32 lorries and 115 light vehicles every day.
  • Natural gas is a highly competitive fuel from an economic perspective and its use in the transport sector helps improve air quality.


The Mayor of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Isabel García Ripoll, the Director-General for Transport and Environmental Affairs of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Pere Padrosa, and the Director of Mobility Solutions of GAS NATURAL FENOSA, José Ramón Freire, today officially opened a natural gas station in the town with a compressed natural gas (CNG) pump for light vehicles and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) pump for lorries.

This new station brings the total number of public liquefied natural gas (LNG) stations in Catalonia to five, making it the autonomous region of Spain with the highest number of such stations. The facilities, located at the Tranports Mariné installations, will enable any compressed natural gas (CNG) or LNG vehicle to be refuelled.

The facilities, which received an investment of close to 1 million euros, is designed to refuel the equivalent of 115 light vehicles and 32 lorries every day. The public self-service station can be used 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 400 vehicles have refuelled since it was opened in July.

The station is located in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda (Barcelona) for strategic reasons: on the one hand, due to its proximity to the AP-7 motorway and the C-33, and, on the other hand, due to its position close to the El Vallés Integrated Goods Centre (or CEM in Spanish), a logistics platform that serves as a major hub for road haulage supply and distribution.

The European LNG Blue Corridors Project

This facility forms part of the European LNG Blue Corridors Project, an initiative aimed at fostering transport along certain European freight corridors via the use of natural gas in freight transport vehicles. 27 companies and associations from 11 different countries are involved in the initiative.

The project seeks to consolidate industrial knowledge and bring together the stakeholders involved in the development of natural gas vehicles and liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructures with a view to developing the main corridors that criss-cross Europe. Plans are in place to install 14 LNG (or a combination of LNG and CNG) stations, with the station in Santa Perpetua being the only station in Spain forming part of the LNG BlueCorridors Project. There are currently five stations in operation in Europe under this initiative.

Natural gas, an alternative for transport

There are currently 38 public natural gas stations in Spain, 23 of which belong to GAS NATURAL FENOSA. 18 of these 38 stations supply LNG, a fact that makes Spain the European country with the most LNG stations in operation.

The use of natural gas as a fuel for transport helps improve air quality as it reduces the emission of nitrous oxides by up to 85% and suspended particulate by up to 95% (the main pollutants affecting human health), as well as CO2 emissions (the main greenhouse gas) by up to 20%. Furthermore, natural gas reduces noise pollution because these vehicles produce 50% less noise than diesel engines.

Natural gas is also a highly competitive fuel from an economic point of view when compared with diesel and petrol, given that it can achieve savings of up to 30% compared with the former and 50% compared with the latter.


Barcelona, 10 December 2014.

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