Kentucky
Kentucky-based Thorntons is a major addition to bp’s growing global convenience and mobility business. After bp took full ownership of the business in 2021, Thorntons has fully integrated into our US convenience business.
Convenience is one of our transition growth engines, and along with EV charging, we expect it to generate $1.5 billion globally by 2025.
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 Thorntons’ 3,400+ employees working across six states. Globally, bp’s Convenience and mobility team has a target of more than 15 million customer touchpoints per day by 2025.
Thorntons provides a competitive consumer offer and strong business operations. bp intends to build on, and further enhance, this long tradition of providing a distinctive customer experience while creating integrated value across bp’s mobility and convenience and fuels supply businesses.
In December 2022, bp acquired Archaea Energy, making bp the largest producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. In April 2024, Archaea celebrated a ribbon-cutting for its RNG plant next to the Montgomery County Landfill owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling. The landfill 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, which was unable to produce pipeline-quality RNG.