Nopetro Energy is a Miami renewable natural gas company founded in 2008 by high-school friends Jorge A. Herrera and Jonathan “Jack” Locke. Its roots are in natural gas fueling for commercial fleets, and it’s since worked its way upstream. Today it develops landfill gas-to-RNG plants, markets the gas, builds and operates public and private fueling stations and helps fleets convert. Its biggest move in Florida is the $50 million Lena Road Landfill RNG facility in Manatee County, which broke ground Oct. 9, 2026, as the first landfill gas-to-RNG plant on the state’s west coast. Nopetro will own and operate it, with Mead & Hunt handling design-build. That’s an owner-operator bet, not a fee job.
Nopetro’s pitch is vertical integration, and it describes the chain in four steps: source, process, distribute, deliver. That means the same company develops the renewable natural gas plant, markets the gas, builds and operates the fueling station and, through its N360 program, can put RNG trucks under a fleet with fuel and maintenance as options. A fleet manager who wants to avoid a large upfront outlay can take the trucks without buying them outright.
The operating record is in Florida and it is measurable. The company built the LYNX CNG facility in Orlando for Central Florida’s transit system, covering fueling infrastructure, maintenance facility build-outs and a bus fleet conversion; it reports that project yields over $7 million a year in fuel savings, dispenses more than 4 million gallons of RNG annually and cuts over 40,000 metric tons of CO2 a year. A CNG facility in Leon County serving Leon County Schools is reported at over $5 million a year in savings and more than 3 million gallons dispensed. On the production side, its landfill-to-renewable-fuel facility in Vero Beach is stated to produce 3 million gallons of RNG and 4 million RINs a year and displace 100,000 metric tons of CO2.
Four fleet types are the target market: over-the-road trucking, waste management fleets, transit buses, and logistics and distribution. The common thread is high mileage on repetitive duty cycles, which is where the economics work. Notably, the company frames the argument around fuel price stability as much as emissions — lower volatility at scale and predictable fuel economics for high-mileage operations — rather than leading with the environmental case alone. Logistics and distribution fleets are offered a choice between a modular transition and a turnkey one.
Clients and partners named on the site include Manatee County, Indian River County, Leon County Schools and Johnson Controls, with engineering firm Mead & Hunt named as a partner on the Manatee County work.
The executive bench is deep for a company of this age: roughly fifteen named officers, with separate senior vice presidents for project delivery, operations, RNG development and business development. Jorge Herrera serves as CEO and Co-Founder, with Markus Bargouti as CFO, Edward Hart as Chief Supply Officer and Scott A. Brinner as EVP of RNG Solutions. For a developer that owns and operates its own plants, that separation of development from operations is the structure the model requires.
The company states its founding purpose plainly: get petroleum out of the transportation sector and replace it with domestic natural gas. Headquarters is 150 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 1103, Miami, FL 33131.
