Gas filling infrastructure expands in Spain and Portugal

Eleven publicly owned gas stations have opened across the Iberian Peninsula in the first six months of 2020: nine in Spain and two in Portugal.

A total of eleven publicly owned gas stations have been opened throughout the Iberian Peninsula - nine in Spain and two in Portugal - in the first six months of 2020, according to Gasnam, the main source of information on natural gas filling stations on the Iberian Peninsula.

Most of the new openings - four out of eleven stations - took place during the month of February, prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the declaration of the state of alarm in Spain. Gas companies also celebrated the opening of six filling stations during the months of lockdown - April, May and June - and one more in July.

All new gas stations opened this year in the Iberian Peninsula have a CNG dispenser, and seven of these also offer LNG. Stations supplying both fuels in Spain are located in Pinto, Antequera, La Roda, Vilareal, and Puerto Lumbreras; in Portugal, dual filling points are located in Sines and Maia. New stations whose availability is limited to CNG are located in the Spanish municipalities of Tres Cantos, Benavente, Granada and Dos Hermanas.

Spain currently has a total of 87 CNG supply stations and 55 LNG stations. Additionally, 40 CNG and 28 LNG stations have already been planned across the country, and another 15 LNG stations will be built in the context of the ECO-net project, financed by the European Commission and coordinated at national level by Enagás.

Portugal counts with 13 CNG stations currently operational, and another 5 projected; as well as 9 active LNG stations, and another 3 in the pipeline.