Skangas Supplies Bio-LNG to Steelmaker

Norwegian small-scale LNG supplier Skangas said May 29 it has delivered liquefied biogas (bio-LNG) from its Finnish parent Gasum’s Lidkoping biogas facility in Sweden to a steelmaker there for the first time.

The bio-LNG was delivered to the Uddeholm production plant, owned by Austria’s VoestAlpine.  Leading specialist manufacturer of industrial tool steel Uddeholm replaced heavy fuel oil with LNG already in 2014.  Bio-LNG currently plays a small but important role in Uddeholm's heat production, said the firm's managing director Johnny Sjostrom. 

Skangas sales director Tommy Mattila added that Uddeholm’s interest validated Skangas’ strategy of investing in infrastructure linked to natural gas and biogas as “the right way to go green.” (The banner photo shows the Uddeholm plant's steel manufacturing, credit: Skangas)

Earlier this year Scandinavian steel and iron ore firms SSAB and LKAB agreed to co-fund with Swedish state power generator Vattenfall a pilot fossil-fuel-free steel plant at Lulea in northern Sweden.