Renewable natural gas

Well, You know, we're not producing kilowatts today.

We're on renewable natural gas.

We can dive into that because we had to.

Yeah, I want to dive into

Sure.

So we actually landed, uh, with a group that actually takes the methane and concentrates it and then loads it into semi tankers under pressure and takes it to an offloading site where we're injecting it into the national pipeline.

So we're making renewable natural gas and putting it in a pipeline.

And then from there, it goes out to LTL type fleets that have trucks that come back and refuel at night.

Then Sam Girard is the VP of Customer Success and Senior Site Executive at Angie Energy.

He's going to talk to us all about CNG as well as RNG.

All right, so fleets are moving away from the hunt for one diesel replacement and towards a mix of energy sources.

So we're going to dig into that, what it looks like, the multi-energy shift, and how it looks in practice, as well as the fueling infrastructure, and how to figure out whether the economics actually work for your operation.

I love it.

Well, we could talk to you for the next 35 minutes about life, but we want to give the people what they want to see.

So with that being said, Sam, CNG and RNG, break it down for me at surface level.

Obviously, we know what it is.

Priorities also include running assets safely, reliably, and more cost efficiently, as well as tackling culture to enable faster, more effective decision-making and greater accountability for results.

Part of the portfolio simplification includes selling Archaea Energy, which anchors its RNG business.

"Some assets may have been important to BP in the past," said O'Neill on the Q2 2026 earnings call.

"That does not necessarily mean they're the right assets for BP's future.

Importantly, cost reduction is an output of these portfolio decisions, and not the reason for them." In the quarter, BP incurred post-tax net impairments of around eight hundred million, which it said were primarily related to its energy transition businesses in the gas and low-carbon energy segment.

However, the segment delivered an eight hundred million increase in operating profit, thanks to higher price realizations and price lags.

A four point one billion dollar bet on RNG.

To understand how big a reversal the planned Archaea sale represents, let's recount how BP got here in the first place.

My guest today is Scott Brinner.

Scott is an Executive Vice President of RNG Solutions at NoPetro Energy.

A new 15-liter engine gives RNG a route into heavy-duty trucking, with high-mileage return-to-base fleets emerging as the strongest early fit.

Let's get into it.

Scott, welcome to the podcast.

I'm the Executive Vice President of our RME Solutions Division at Nopetro Energy, a company headquartered out of Miami, Florida, that's focused on really all aspects of the RME renewable natural gas industry from production through the fueling stations and even starting to engage in truck financing and purchasing and maintenance service too.

And before we go any further, I just want to clear up a distinction people sometimes confuse because you talked about trucks and trucks can run on compressed natural gas, which is sometimes called CNG, which is basically methane stored under pressure as a transport fuel.

And you talked about RNG.

So we decided to move from the very center of London to the tiniest part of Spain to start this from scratch, you know, with the idea of, okay, we want to do bankable projects.

We want to develop a platform focused on biomethane initially.

So the idea is to develop, construct and own everything and operate everything that we developed.

And that was the idea, similar to what I was saying to JVM.

And I've been preparing myself my whole life for this moment.

So it became very, very much of a natural move and a natural progression in our lives.

But for someone listening to this who, you know, is usually more programmed into solar or wind or BESS, how would you explain exactly what biomethane is and why it is important?

So biomethane is a very complex technology.