Country
France: LNG infrastructure
France has 7 LNG terminals, 24 tracked gas pipelines and 1 vessel owned or flagged here in the Global Energy Monitor tracker. It is an importer, with 30.4 Mtpa of operating regasification capacity and no operating liquefaction.
Export capacity
—
no export terminal tracked
Import capacity
30.4 Mtpa
2 Mtpa under construction
Pipelines
24
42,908 km tracked
Fleet
1
1 owned from here (flag not reported this release)
Import and export balance
| Direction | Terminals | Operating | Under construction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export (liquefaction) | 0 | — | — |
| Import (regasification) | 7 | 30.4 | 2 |
Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.
LNG terminals in France
| Import / export | Type | Units | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunkirk LNG TerminalHauts-de-France | Import | Not reported | Operating | 9.55 Mtpa | 3 | 2017 |
| Fos Cavaou LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Operating | 8 Mtpa | 3 | 2010 |
| Fos Lavera Marseille LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Fos Tonkin LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Operating | 1.2 Mtpa | 2 | 1972 |
| Le Havre FSRUNormandy | Import | FSRU | Operating | 3.67 Mtpa | 1 | 2023 |
| Le Havre-Antifer LNG TerminalNormandy | Import | Not reported | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Montoir LNG TerminalPays de la Loire | Import | Not reported | Operating | 8 Mtpa | 2 | 1980 |
Gas pipelines crossing France
Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.
| Countries | Segments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annecy-La Gabiule Gas Pipeline | France, Switzerland | Operating | 40 km | Not reported | 1 | 1977 |
| Brittany South Gas PipelineSouth Brittany → South Brittany | France | Operating | 98 km | Not reported | 1 | 2016 |
| Etrez-Vernier Gas Pipeline | France, Switzerland | Operating | 73 km | Not reported | 1 | 1989 |
| Flanders Artery Pipeline | France | Operating | 23 km | 8 bcm/y | 1 | 2016 |
| Franpipe Gas PipelineNorth Sea → Nord | Norway, France | Operating | 840 km | 19.8 bcm/y | 1 | 1998 |
| H2Med Pipeline | Spain, France | Proposed | 450 km | 2.72 bcm/y | 1 | 2029 |
| Irun-Biriatou Gas Pipeline | Spain, France | Operating | 4 km | 11.3 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Larrau–Villar de Arnedo Gas Pipeline | France, Spain | Operating | 145 km | Not reported | 1 | 2007 |
| Le Havre–Paris Gas Pipeline | France | Operating | 181 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| MEGAL–France Gas Pipeline | France, Germany | Operating | 86 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Midi-Catalonia Pipeline | Spain, France | Cancelled | 1,250 km | 7.5 bcm/y | 1 | 2022 |
| Midi-Catalonia Pipeline | Spain, France | Cancelled | 227 km | Not reported | 1 | 2024 |
| Morelmaison-Rodersdorf Gas Pipeline | France, Switzerland | Operating | 162 km | Not reported | 1 | 1998 |
| Morelmaison–Voisines Gas Pipeline | France | Operating | 169 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkOise → Haute Marne | France | Operating | 308 km | 15 bcm/y | 1 | 2015 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline Network | France | Operating | 191 km | 13 bcm/y | 1 | 2014 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline Network | France | Operating | 29,574 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkBouches-du-Rhône → Drôme | France | Shelved | 220 km | Not reported | 1 | 2016 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkLoire-Atlantique → Maine-et-Loire | France | Proposed | 200 km | Not reported | 1 | 2017 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkMaine-et-Loire → Eure-et-Loire | France | Proposed | 63 km | Not reported | 1 | 2024 |
| Persian Gas Pipeline | Iran, Türkiye, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Spain | Cancelled | 3,300 km | 40 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Teréga Gas Pipeline NetworkSouthwest France → Southwest France | France | Operating | 4,691 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Transitgas–Laneuvelotte–Obergailbach Gas Pipeline | France, Switzerland | Operating | 327 km | Not reported | 1 | 2006 |
| Voisines–Lyon Gas Pipeline | France | Operating | 284 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
Fleet
Vessels flagged in France or owned by a company headquartered here. Ownership country comes from the hand-maintained company file, so it is only as complete as that file.
Companies headquartered in France
Chokepoint exposure
Chokepoint exposure is shown on each terminal page, taken from a hand-maintained trade-lane table. It is an editorial routing model of typical laden voyages, not vessel tracking. The exposure feed aggregates it by chokepoint.
Neighbouring countries
Countries that share a land border with this one and have tracked LNG infrastructure.
More countries in Europe
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