Kentucky
Kentucky-based Thorntons plays a major role in bp’s growing global convenience and mobility business. After bp took full ownership of Thorntons in 2021, it has fully integrated into our US convenience business.
Fast facts
- Kentucky is home to more than 260 bp-owned and -branded retail stations.
- From its headquarters in Louisville, Thorntons maintains stores in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Florida.
Louisville-based Thorntons added 200 high-quality retail stores in the Midwest and the South to bp’s network, as well as more than 3,400+ employees working across six states.
TravelCenters of America (TA) joined bp’s family of brands in May 2023. In February 2024, TA celebrated the opening of its 300th travel center, in Walton, Kentucky, which brought 100 new jobs to the community. TA has a total of five sites across the state.
In April 2024, Archaea Energy, a bp company, celebrated a ribbon-cutting for its renewable natural gas (RNG) plant next to the Montgomery County Landfill owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling. The plant can process 3,200 cubic feet of landfill gas per minute (scfm) into RNG – enough gas to heat around 13,000 homes annually, according to the EPA’s Landfill Gas Energy Benefits Calculator.
Archaea’s landfill-gas-to-RNG project at the Boyd County Sanitary Landfill in Ashland, Kentucky, is a testament to Archaea Energy’s gas processing capabilities. Archaea’s experienced technical and operational team enabled this project to become operational in just four months after acquiring the project from another developer.
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