Where does Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline run?

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is recorded in Brazil. Global Energy Monitor reports no start and end points for it.

How long is Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline?

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is 355 km long.

How much gas can Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline carry?

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 1.83 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline operating?

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is proposed.

Who owns Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline?

Ownership of Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is not reported in the current tracker release.

Does Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 2 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline, Brazil

Route

Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline runs from Brazil. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Not reported
To: São Paulo
Start country: Brazil
End country: Brazil
Countries crossed: Brazil
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 342 km
GEM pipeline ID: P6608
Start year: Not reported
Estimated cost (GEM, US dollars): $491 million
GEM wiki page: gem.wiki

Segments

Each row is one row of GEM's pipeline file. Project-level figures repeated on every segment are counted once in the totals above.

Segment	Status	From → to	Length	Capacity	Diameter	Start	Route from
Whole pipeline	Proposed	? → São Paulo	355	1.83	406 mm	—	GEM's route file

Connected LNG terminals

Terminals whose coordinates fall within 25 km of this route, or whose name matches the pipeline. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection.

Terminal	Country	Import / export	Status	Distance	Matched by
Cosan FSRU	Brazil	Import	Operating	5.7 km	route proximity
Santos Basin FLNG Terminal	Brazil	Export	Cancelled	9.1 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

Stakes as reported by GEM per segment, merged across segments.

Ownership is not reported for this pipeline.

In the news

Recent headlines that name Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline. Matched by name, so it is approximate. Titles and links only; we store no article text.

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Common questions

Generated from the same tracker fields as the tables above, so the two cannot disagree. Each answer stands on its own.

Where does Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline run?: Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is recorded in Brazil. Global Energy Monitor reports no start and end points for it.
How long is Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline?: Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is 355 km long.
How much gas can Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline carry?: Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 1.83 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline operating?: Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is proposed.
Who owns Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline?: Ownership of Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline is not reported in the current tracker release.
Does Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 2 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

More gas pipelines in Brazil

Listed in name order among the 65 pipelines tracked in Brazil, so projects with the same name sit together. A browse aid, not a claim that they are alike.

Background on the technology and the terms used on this page.

LNG against pipeline gas
A pipeline delivers gas at lower cost than LNG over land up to roughly two to four thousand kilometres, beyond which liquefaction wins, and across any significant body of deep water LNG usually wins at any distance.
How LNG works
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas chilled to about minus 162 degrees Celsius, at which point it becomes a liquid roughly 600 times smaller than the gas, so it can be shipped where no pipeline runs.
Mtpa, bcm and cubic metres
LNG capacity is quoted in three incompatible units, and the two conversions that matter are 1 million tonnes a year equals about 1.36 billion cubic metres of gas a year, and 1 cubic metre of liquid equals about 600 cubic metres of gas.
What terminal status actually means
A project status describes how far an LNG terminal or train has progressed, and the gap between proposed and operating is the single most misread number in the industry.

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline, Brazil. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/bacalhau-rpbc-gas-pipeline-br/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinebacalhaurpbcgaspipelinebr2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Bacalhau–RPBC Gas Pipeline, Brazil},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/bacalhau-rpbc-gas-pipeline-br/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}