Hungarian oil and gas company MOL Group is expanding its Szarvas biogas plant with a new biomethane unit that will enable renewable gas injection into Hungary's national grid.
The unit is expected to be completed by the end of 2026 and produce more than 7 million cubic metres of biomethane annually: equivalent to the natural gas consumption of around 8,500 average households.
The project will be MOL's first biomethane plant and only the third such facility in Hungary.
The Szarvas plant currently generates biogas from organic waste including manure, slurry, food industry waste and agricultural residues, processing more than 40,000 tonnes of waste from regional meat production, 53,000 tonnes of livestock and meat-processing residual waste, and around 18,000 tonnes of agricultural feedstock each year.
That feedstock generates close to 12 million cubic metres of biogas annually, with the plant producing nearly 24 GWh of electricity through gas engines with a peak capacity of approximately 4 MW.
The new unit will purify that biogas into biomethane by stripping out carbon dioxide and other compounds before grid injection.
MOL acquired the Szarvas plant from BayWa in 2023 and said it intends to use operational learnings from the project to inform future biomethane acquisitions and greenfield investments.
MOL Group to add biomethane unit to Hungarian biogas plant
