• 22 Jan 2018

Two new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) filling locations have been opened in The Netherlands. These LNG filling locations, owned by PitPoint.LNG, are situated at DCB Energy-owned TruckEasy filling stations, one at Den Hoorn and the other at Sevenum/Venlo.

PitPoint.LNG is a joint venture formed by PitPoint clean fuels and Primagaz Nederland BV. This joint venture is focused entirely on the realisation and operation of LNG infrastructure for trucks and shipping, while DCB Energy is one of the largest independent fuel and lubricant suppliers in the Netherlands.

The LNG filling location in Den Hoorn is situated in the heart of the Netherlands, only a few metres from the A4, and is easy to get to from Delft, The Hague and Rotterdam. The LNG filling location at Trade Port North, Greenportlane  in Sevenum/Venlo is also easily accessible, with direct access to the A67 and A73, and is ideally located for trucks driving to the hubs for the Rotterdam and Antwerp ports and Central Europe.

The hypermodern TruckEasy stations are unmanned and open 24/7. In addition to LNG, these new locations will also offer high-calorific CNG (Compressed Natural Gas).

With Den Hoorn and Sevenum/Venlo included, there are now 24 LNG filling locations in total in the Netherlands, well-spread across the country. A third LNG station will open in the spring at the TruckEasy location in Roosendaal.

Jan Willem Drijver, managing director PitPoint.LNG: “The new LNG trucks can do around 1.500 km on a full tank. With the current network of LNG filling stations at strategic locations, we pretty much have country-wide coverage.” The network of LNG filling stations will continue to grow, also outside the Netherlands. “PitPoint.LNG is currently working on the development and exploitation of LNG locations in Belgium and Germany, which will make it possible to use our network in these countries too. This way, carriers and their clients are no longer prevented from investing in clean transport,” explains Drijver.

The realization of these LNG tank locations is part of the LNG Motion project, co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) of the European Union, which is facilitating a large-scale roll-out of LNG filling stations for trucks throughout Europe.