Lipiandes inaugurates the first service station for LNG trucks in Peru and consolidates its international green energy corridor

This Lipigas release was published using machine translation.

June 11, Lima, Peru. – Lipiandes today took the international leap in the construction of the first cleaner energy corridor for heavy cargo transportation in the Andean Region, with the inauguration of its first service station in Peru for trucks powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Located in Mala, at the southern access to Lima, and built with the technology of the leading Spanish company in this field, HAM Cryogenic, the station is the first of three that the company hopes to open in 2024 in Peru. The second will be located in Nasca, and the third, 48 kilometers from Arequipa.

“With this opening we are making steady progress in our strategy of strengthening our core business, through energy solutions based on gas in its different formats and with the consolidation of our international presence as leaders in the energy sector in Latin America. Today we meet a new milestone by concretizing our announced “green corridor” that will cross Chile and Peru,” said Angel Mafucci, general manager of Lipiandes.

In this way, the Lipiandes group of companies (the new name of Empresas Lipigas SA), which brings together subsidiaries and brands such as Lipigas and Evol, in Chile; Gas País, in Colombia and Limagas and Limagas Natural, in Peru, continues with the expansion of the corridor that will link Lima with Puerto Montt and that in Chile already has stations in Linares, Maule Region; Tabolango, Valparaíso Region; and Paine, Metropolitan Region. In the case of Peru, the company expects that, between now and the end of the year, more than 120 trucks will be supplied by this network, which is the first in the central-southern area of that country and will be open to the public. Likewise, the company is working to open new facilities of this type north of the Peruvian capital.

“As an LNG producer, Peru has privileged conditions for the development of the international corridor of liquefied natural gas stations for heavy-duty trucks that the company is building. It is a very competitive alternative in terms of costs and allows us to reduce the impact of trucks on the environment. That is why we hope that this network will expand quickly and every day more trucks will be supplied with this fuel,” says Pablo Saenz Laguna, general manager of Limagas Natural, a subsidiary of Lipiandes, which leads the project in the neighboring country.

According to industry figures, LNG makes it possible to reduce particulate matter emissions by 90%, reduce CO2 emissions by between 20% and 30%, and reduce noise pollution by 50%, among other advantages.

This milestone is part of a larger Lipiandes strategy that seeks to “green” its main business, gas, and offer renewable products by 2030. To achieve this, in Chile it has implemented different initiatives, such as the construction of the first plant for production of renewable liquefied natural gas (LNG-R) through the treatment of organic waste. Located in the Ñuble Region, the facility will be able to process between 7,500 and 16,500 m3 of biogas daily. This LNG-R (or Biogas) produced in Chile will serve in the near future to supply the trucks that use the service stations of the green corridor, which will reduce more than 19,000 tons of CO2 per year, when compared to the emissions of diesel trucks, and reduce particulate matter emissions by 96%. The above would be equivalent to taking more than 6,000 cars off the road or planting more than 38,000 trees. The company projects that the plant will be operational by the end of 2024 to market LNG-R during the first half of 2025.

Likewise, the company has the first agreements to offer renewable liquefied gas (Bio LPG) in cylinders by 2028, a milestone that will allow democratizing access to renewable energies in Chile.