Unlocking the full profitability of biogas

Converting methane and CO2 into higher-value, low-carbon fuels.

Secant Fuel's proprietary technology converts the full biogas stream into syngas for the production of low-carbon methanol, creating more value from existing biogas resources.

The Secant Fuel mark: a circle crossed by a secant line, the shorter route between two points on the circumference. It stands for a more direct pathway from biogas to higher-value, low-carbon fuel. The Secant Fuel mark: a circle crossed by a secant line, the shorter route between two points on the circumference. It stands for a more direct pathway from biogas to higher-value, low-carbon fuel.

The Solution

Making biogas more profitable

Biogas is a valuable carbon resource, but existing monetization pathways can leave significant economic potential untapped. Electricity generation is becoming less attractive at many sites, while RNG can depend on pipeline access, incentives and favourable gas prices.

Secant creates a new pathway by converting both methane and CO2 into syngas for low-carbon methanol, increasing the value that can be created from existing biogas resources.

Better project economics

Secant delivers 3.5x higher profitability compared to other options, before including any incentives or carbon credits.

Full carbon stream valorization

Convert both methane and CO2 into product, creating value from more of the existing biogas stream.

Future-proof biogas assets

Create a higher-value liquid product that can access markets beyond the immediate site, providing another pathway as electricity contracts, incentives and gas markets change.

The Technology

A different approach to reforming biogas

Secant's proprietary bi-reforming process combines elements of steam and dry reforming in a single catalytic pathway, using methane, CO2 and steam together to produce syngas.

This allows Secant to convert both major components of biogas while using methane as part of the conversion pathway, creating a flexible process designed around the economics and operating realities of distributed biogas.

Recognition, support & industry engagement

  • Foresight 50
  • Canadian Biogas Association
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • National Research Council Canada
  • Greentown Labs
  • Carbon to Value Initiative
  • Hard Climate

Unlocking carbon value and profit at smaller scale

Secant is purpose-designed for distributed landfill and AD sites where conventional fuel pathways can struggle to achieve attractive economics. Our modular technology can operate at smaller volumes and scale with the available biogas stream.

Designed for distributed scale

Lower-cost fuel production through a simpler process

Secant uses methane as part of the conversion pathway, eliminating the need for an external green hydrogen supply and electrolyzer. With less equipment, lower capital requirements and significantly lower electricity demand than conventional Power-to-X pathways, Secant is designed to produce low-carbon fuels at a lower cost — including at the smaller, distributed scale of landfill and AD sites.

Lower CAPEX, easier deployment

Adapt as sites and markets change

Biogas volumes and market conditions change over time. Secant's modular design can adapt to changing gas flows, while tunable syngas creates flexibility for different downstream fuel pathways. Low-carbon methanol is our initial commercial pathway, with future optionality for other fuels.

Flexible flow + tunable syngas

From demonstrated technology to commercial deployment

Secant is advancing through a staged scale-up strategy designed to retire key technical and commercial risks on the path to commercial deployment.

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Technology demonstrated. Scale-up underway.

  1. 100 continuous hours Stable catalyst activity and syngas production demonstrated at bench scale.
  2. TRL 5 Pilot | 2.5 m³/hr biogas Validating performance at increased scale.
  3. TRL 6 MVP | 50 m³/hr biogas Engineering underway to validate multi-tube scale-up and long-duration catalyst performance.
  4. TRL 7/8 Demonstration | 200–400 m³/hr biogas Planned at commercial-equivalent module scale, with customer site due diligence underway.

Why low-carbon methanol?

Methanol is an established liquid commodity with existing storage, transportation and end-use infrastructure. Its liquid form creates a practical route from distributed production sites to customers beyond the immediate geography.

Demand for lower-carbon methanol is growing, including in hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as shipping.

Early market validation: Secant has secured a 6 million litre/year methanol offtake agreement and is actively developing additional relationships with fuel distributors, shipping companies and other potential low-carbon methanol buyers.

Commercial Progress

Secant is working with biogas operators, engineering partners and prospective methanol buyers to validate site economics, deployment requirements and routes to market.

Demonstration site
Customer technical due diligence underway
6M L/year
Initial signed methanol offtake agreement, with additional offtake relationships in development
>70%
Of our initial target market represented in active customer and partner discussions
$3.5M+
Non-dilutive funding secured to date

Built to take Secant from technology to commercial deployment

Secant's executive team combines deep experience in industrial project development, carbon conversion, commercialization, operations, finance and entrepreneurship.

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Professional headshot of Jochem Kamstra, CEO of Secant Fuel
Jochem Kamstra, MBA
CEO 20 years in project development across industry and energy, with experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
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Bruna Rego de Vasconcelos, PhD
CTO 12 years in CO2 conversion technology and the technical leader behind Secant's catalyst, reactor development and scale-up roadmap.
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Sandra Walker, MBA
COO 30 years in commercialization, strategy and operations, focused on turning Secant's technology into a repeatable commercial business.
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Marc Guilbert, PhD
CFO 20 years in investing, finance and entrepreneurship, bringing capital-markets discipline and previous startup experience to Secant's growth.

Backed by deep technical and industry expertise

Secant's engineering team brings graduate-level expertise in bi-reforming and the Secant process, supported by an ongoing research relationship with Université de Sherbrooke and seven PhD researchers advancing the catalyst R&D pipeline.

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Veronique Ducharme
Applications Engineer
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Emeric Désilets
Field Engineering

Let's build together.

We're connecting with investors, biogas operators, methanol and fuel distributors, technology and deployment partners, and talented people who want to help build the next generation of profitable, low-carbon fuel solutions.

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