• The terminal has recently started the first delivery of BioLNG in Spain

The mayoress of Palos de La Frontera, Milagros Romero, along with an institutional delegation, visited the Enagás Regasification Terminal in this town, in the first days of the start-up of this inaugural BioLNG service in Spain, this March, at the Enagás terminal in Huelva.

Attendees on behalf of the company were Juan Carlos Arancón, Director of Operations and Maintenance at Enagás, and Juan del Olmo, Terminal Manager at Huelva.

This service, which is one of the first in Europe to use the interconnected infrastructure for biomethane injected into the gas network to be recognised as BioLNG, and which has been launched in parallel at Enagás’ regasification terminal in Barcelona, will allow this decarbonised fuel to be loaded onto tankers and ships, contributing to European decarbonisation targets.

The Huelva and Barcelona terminals have carried out almost all of Spain’s LNG bunkering supply in Spain in 2024 and have already carried out more than 300 reloading operations for small scale vessels at these two terminals since the start of this type of operation.

Activity at the Enagás Terminal in Huelva in 2024

The Huelva Regasification Terminal continues to successfully fulfil its objective of strengthening the security of energy supply in Spain and Europe. In 2024, the terminal received a total of 38 LNG carriers, unloading more than 5 million m³ of LNG.

In December, the Huelva terminal received the Administrative Authorisation to adapt the mooring system for vessels of 180,000 m³, allowing it to receive large methane tankers.

A total of 42 ship loading operations were carried out at the terminal in 2024, corresponding to 512,246 m3 of LNG, representing 25% of the reloading operations carried out at the 7 Spanish LNG terminals, making it the terminal with the most reloading operations. Also, a total of 9,035 tankers have been loaded, accounting for 21% of all tankers loaded in Spain, primarily focused on supplying the closest areas.

The Huelva regasification terminal will also enable progress to be made in the challenges of decarbonisation, for which the first studies are already being carried out to advance a multi-molecule model that will develop alternatives such as Bio-LNG, hydrogen and other decarbonised fuels.