Gasum Plan for 50 LNG stations in Finland, Sweden and Norway

• 17 Sep 2018

Gasum, the Finnish company specialized in LNG, has announced an investment plan starting from 2020 to bring the number of service stations for heavy vehicles in Finland, Sweden and Norway from the current four to 50.

The new refueling stations will be positioned in the main road transport nodes and the use of liquefied biogas (LBG) will cut significantly carbon dioxide emissions, as well as nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter and noise emissions. The first Gasum refueling station was inaugurated in August 2016 in Vuosaari, near Helsinki, and the inauguration of the Vantaa stations (at IKEA) and Oulu, Limingantulli is imminent. In Finland the next stations will be in the Helsinki metropolitan area, in Turku, Seinäjoki and Kuopio. In cooperation with IKEA, stations will be built near the company's stores in the coming years in Finland.

The new LNG refueling stations in Sweden will be in the Västerbotten, Norrbotten, Värmland, Västernorrland, Gävleborg, Örebro, Västmanland, Uppsala, Västra Götaland, Östra Götaland, Jönköping, Kronoberg and Skåne regions.

"We are moving towards a zero-emission society and now it is time to accelerate the pace: Natural gas plays an important role in this transition," summarizes Gasum CEO Johanna Lamminen."In recent years, we have made targeted efforts to build Nordic LNG and biogas infrastructure. In the beginning of 2018, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency approved to Gasum a grant for the expansion of our network of refueling stations under the Climate Leap program ("Klimatklivet") This testifies the enormous potential of the gas market and allows us to establish the role of LNG as a low-emission fuel for heavy road transport ".