Kinetrex Energy
Kinetrex Energy is a private Indianapolis-based supplier of liquefied natural gas serving transportation, industrial, commercial, and utility customers across the Midwest, founded in 2013 and positioned as the region's fastest-growing LNG provider.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2013
- HeadquartersIndianapolis, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Kinetrex Energy does
Kinetrex Energy is a private, Indianapolis-based supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) serving customers across the Midwest United States. Founded in 2013 and operating with 11-50 employees, the company is described in its own firmographic profile as the Midwest's fastest-growing LNG supplier. Its stated technology base spans renewable natural gas (RNG) production, liquefaction, storage, and transportation infrastructure, indicating an integrated midstream-to-last-mile delivery model that combines upstream biogas sourcing with downstream liquefied fuel delivery.
The company addresses five distinct end-use segments: transportation (heavy-duty trucking, transit, and refuse fleets) is identified as the primary segment, with industrial, commercial, and utility customers as secondary buyers, plus upstream feedstock partners across agriculture, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. The primary go-to-market motion is direct enterprise sales, supported by content-marketing assets (insights articles, a free landfill assessment, an interactive emissions calculator, and an RNG Guide and Playbook) that target mid- and top-of-funnel demand generation. No pricing model, contract structures, or customer logos are disclosed.
A 2017 funding event with Kensington Capital Partners is the only disclosed capital event, and Terry Peak is identified as the senior vice president and chief operating officer. The most detailed source material in the dataset is a Kinder Morgan Renewable Natural Gas division webpage, which references Kinetrex only via an image asset filename ("kinetrex-worker5.jpg"), and the only contact phone number provided ((713) 369-9000) is a Houston, Texas number consistent with Kinder Morgan's headquarters — indirect signals of a corporate affiliation that is not formally confirmed in the available data. No revenue, customer count, M&A history, or recent operating metrics are disclosed for Kinetrex specifically.
Kinetrex Energy firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Kinetrex Energy
- Website
- https://kinetrexenergy.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2013
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Kinetrex Energy is a private Indianapolis-based supplier of liquefied natural gas serving transportation, industrial, commercial, and utility customers across the Midwest, founded in 2013 and positioned as the region's fastest-growing LNG provider.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Kinetrex Energy industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Liquefied Natural Gas Supply
- NAICS
- Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas (48621), Natural Gas Distribution (2212)
- SIC
- Natural Gas Transmisison & Distribution (4923)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Industrial CNG/LNG Supply & Distribution (Virtual Pipelines, Trucking, Satellite Storage) (EUALALAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- LNG Liquefaction Plants (Onshore & FLNG) (EUALAFAA), LNG Import/Export Terminals & Storage (Regas, Peak Shaving, Small-Scale LNG) (EUALAEAD)
Keywords
Where Kinetrex Energy is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Indianapolis
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Markets served
Kinetrex Energy business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels5 records
Kinetrex Energy product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Kinetrex Energy is the Midwest's fastest-growing supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company operates infrastructure for renewable natural gas production, liquefaction, storage, and transportation, serving transportation, industrial, commercial, utility, agricultural, and municipal customers including landfills and wastewater treatment plants.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Supply Cryogenically liquefied natural gas supplied to transportation fleets, industrial, commercial, and utility customers across the U.S. Midwest as an alternative to diesel and pipeline natural gas.
- Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Renewable natural gas produced from landfill-derived biogas, wastewater treatment byproducts, and agricultural waste, processed and distributed to customers seeking lower-carbon gas supply.
- LNG Storage and Transportation Services Cryogenic storage and trucked transportation infrastructure that moves LNG and RNG from production sites to end-user locations across the Midwest.
Quantifiable outcome
- Organizations achieve economic and environmental benefits through RNG adoption in transportation sector
Companies that use Kinetrex Energy
Customer profileSegments5 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Kinetrex Energy technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature1 record
Kinetrex Energy partnerships and signals
Strategic signalRecent moves3 records
Expansion highlights4 records
Kinetrex Energy competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Clean Energy Fuels: Clean Energy Fuels is North America's largest distributor of RNG and LNG for transportation fleets, with production from dairy and landfill sources. It directly overlaps Kinetrex's RNG/LNG-for-fleets model and shares the same heavy-duty trucking, transit, and refuse customer base.
- Archaea Energy: Archaea Energy (now part of BP) is one of the largest landfill-derived RNG producers in the U.S., specializing in capturing and upgrading landfill biogas to pipeline-quality RNG. Its landfill feedstock focus, RNG marketing capability, and downstream fuel supply make it a direct competitor to Kinetrex's landfill-RNG business.
- OPAL Fuels: OPAL Fuels is a vertically integrated RNG producer and fuel marketer servicing truck fleets and waste haulers with renewable CNG/LNG. Its combination of upstream RNG production, midstream compression/storage, and downstream fleet supply closely mirrors Kinetrex's integrated offerings.
- Vanguard Renewables: Vanguard Renewables develops farm-based anaerobic digester projects that produce renewable natural gas from agricultural waste. It overlaps with Kinetrex's agriculture-segment RNG sourcing and shares the same landfill-and-biogas upstream model before the gas hits the distribution network.
- Brightmark Energy: Brightmark Energy develops RNG projects from dairy and agricultural waste streams and has expanded into RNG marketing to fleets. The company competes with Kinetrex for agricultural feedstock projects and downstream fleet RNG customers.
- New Fortress Energy: New Fortress Energy specializes in small-scale LNG supply via virtual pipelines (trucking ISO containers) and also supplies LNG to industrial, utility, and transportation customers. Its small-scale LNG distribution model — trucking LNG to off-pipeline customers — is the same logistics model Kinetrex uses to serve Midwest fleets and industrial sites.
Broad incumbents
- Kinder Morgan Renewable Natural Gas: Kinder Morgan is one of North America's largest midstream energy infrastructure operators and runs an RNG business that produces and markets landfill-derived RNG to fleets. Visual and operational assets on Kinder Morgan's RNG page reference Kinetrex, and KM offers overlapping RNG production, storage, liquefaction and transportation capabilities — but at substantially broader scale than Kinetrex.
- Southwest Gas Holdings: Southwest Gas is a large utility holding company with regulated natural gas distribution and pipeline businesses plus expanding RNG initiatives. It is comparable as a natural gas distribution platform, but with broader geographic scope and regulated utility economics rather than Kinetrex's merchant fleet-fuel model.
- Dominion Energy: Dominion Energy is a large utility with gas distribution operations and is actively investing in biogas/RNG infrastructure as part of its decarbonization strategy. Its RNG sourcing from agricultural and landfill operations makes it an adjacent competitor in the same feedstock ecosystem Kinetrex taps.
Regional players
- Charbonneau Petroleum Group: Charbonneau Petroleum is a Midwest-based petroleum/fuel distributor that has been developing LNG refueling infrastructure for heavy-duty trucking in the U.S. Midwest. It directly competes with Kinetrex at the LNG retail/fleet-supply layer in the same regional footprint.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat2 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Kinetrex Energy social profiles
Digital presenceKinetrex Energy financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Kinetrex Energy leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Kinetrex Energy funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds1 record
Investors1 record
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Kinetrex Energy M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Kinetrex Energy
What does Kinetrex Energy do?
Kinetrex Energy is the Midwest's fastest-growing supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company operates infrastructure for renewable natural gas production, liquefaction, storage, and transportation, serving transportation, industrial, commercial, utility, agricultural, and municipal customers including landfills and wastewater treatment plants.
When was Kinetrex Energy founded?
Kinetrex Energy was founded in 2013. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Kinetrex Energy based?
Kinetrex Energy is headquartered in Indianapolis, United States, in the North America region.
Who are Kinetrex Energy's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Clean Energy Fuels, Archaea Energy, OPAL Fuels, Vanguard Renewables, Brightmark Energy and New Fortress Energy. Broad incumbents are Kinder Morgan Renewable Natural Gas, Southwest Gas Holdings and Dominion Energy. Charbonneau Petroleum Group is listed as a regional player.
Does Kinetrex Energy have an API?
No public API is recorded for Kinetrex Energy.
What industry is Kinetrex Energy in?
Kinetrex Energy's product category is Liquefied Natural Gas Supply. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUALALAA, Industrial CNG/LNG Supply & Distribution (Virtual Pipelines, Trucking, Satellite Storage), with a secondary code of EUALAFAA, LNG Liquefaction Plants (Onshore & FLNG). Its NAICS code is 48621 and its SIC code is 4923.