Energy infrastructure • Gas
Global Gas Pipelines & LNG Infrastructure
Every gas transmission pipeline and LNG terminal in the Global Energy Monitor tracker, at the status GEM records: operating, under construction, idle, mothballed, retired, cancelled. The register on this page is also the watchlist for the weekly disruption watch under Monitoring.
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Key pipeline corridors
Capacities and statuses below are computed from the tracker on every render rather than written into the text, so they cannot drift from the map above. Corridor capacity sums the operating lines in that corridor and is never summed across a single line’s own segments.
Norway to NW Europe
— operatingNorway is the EU's largest pipeline gas supplier. A subsea network from the Norwegian continental shelf into the UK, Germany, Belgium and France.
Southern Gas Corridor
— operatingAzeri gas from Shah Deniz II across Türkiye into Greece, Albania and Italy. The EU's primary non-Russian, non-LNG diversification route; its significance outweighs its volume.
Mediterranean: Algeria and Libya
— operatingAlgeria supplies Italy and Spain by subsea pipeline. Libya's Greenstream runs intermittently. Algeria remains the most reliable North African supplier.
Russia to Europe, what is left
— operatingTurkStream is the last major Russia-to-EU route still flowing. Yamal-Europe and both Nord Stream lines are carried here at their recorded status, not described from memory.
Power of Siberia (Russia to China)
— operatingRussia's eastward pivot. Redirects export volumes away from Europe on a multi-decade basis.
Central Asia and Caspian
— operatingTurkmen gas flows east to China. The Trans-Caspian route to Europe has been discussed for decades and not built. Underutilised relative to the reserves behind it.
Why there is no total capacity figure
GEM splits a pipeline into segments and every segment repeats the whole line’s capacity. The 48 rows of the Shanxi Gas Pipeline Network are 48 different lengths of pipe carrying the same 3.2 Bcm/y. Summing them gave 417,792 Bcm/y against a world that consumes about 3,808. Deduplicating by project only reaches 111,707, still 28 times world consumption, because a network double-counts by design: the same gas moves through a trunk line and then a regional one and is counted in both. Length is additive and is reported above. Capacity is reported only for the cross-border subset, which is gas that actually moves between countries and is counted once.
Data sources and methodology
Pipelines and terminals
Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved — via yarn data:gem-gas.
Units differ by file and each file states its own: pipeline capacity is Bcm/y, LNG terminal capacity is MTPA. GEM ships the terminal field named capacity_bcm although it holds MTPA; the fetcher renames it.
Checks
Liquefaction capacity is reconciled against published world totals (IGU World LNG Report; GECF Annual Gas Market Report) by yarn check:gas. Watchlist coverage is tested against GECF’s record of 2025 liquefaction outages by yarn check:gas-watchlist.
Monitoring
Weekly collection from GDELT and Google News RSS over the watchlist on this page. Collected candidates are never rendered as events; a human confirms each against a primary source first.