BP said Oct. 4 it brought online a renewable natural gas (RNG) plant that converts landfill gas, marking the company’s first RNG plant startup since its $4.1 billion acquisition of Archaea Energy in 2022.

Located in Medora, Indiana, next to a landfill owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling, the plant is capable of processing 3,200 cu. ft of landfill gas per minute into RNG. That’s enough gas to heat more than 13,000 homes annually, BP said.

Gas captured from decomposing waste at the landfill can be transformed into electricity, heat or RNG. The facility’s standardized modular design enables plants to be built quicker than custom built plants and on skids with interchangeable parts , BP said in a news release.

“This is a powerful step forward in our net zero journey to capture landfill emissions and provide customers with lower emission, lower carbon fuel,” Archaea Energy CEO Starlee Sykes said in the release. “Our goal is to safely bring several AMD [Archaea Modular Design] plants online this year. I’m in awe of our team who designed, engineered and built this facility and we can’t wait to bring more online across the U.S.”

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With the 2022 acquisition of Houston-based Archaea, BP became the largest producer of RNG in the U.S. At the time, Archaea operated about 50 RNG and landfill gas-to-energy facilities across the U.S. The companies’ combined RNG development pipeline has grown to more than 80 projects.

The Medora plant startup comes as BP aims to increase its biogas volumes by about six times to approximately 70,000 boe/d by 2030. The company has identified bioenergy as one of five strategic transition growth engines expected to help deliver about $2 billion EBITDA in 2025 and more than $4 billion in 2030.

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