Kinetrex Energy

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.

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

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

• LNG supply
• Renewable natural gas
• Natural gas distribution
• Cryogenic gas storage
• Biogas processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Indianapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core 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

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct 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

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kinetrex-energy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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