How long is El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline?

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is 572 km long.

How much gas can El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline carry?

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 6.85 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline operating?

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2018.

Who owns El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline?

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is owned by TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline, Mexico

Route

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline runs from Chihuahua to Sinaloa. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Chihuahua
To: Sinaloa
Start country: Mexico
End country: Mexico
Countries crossed: Mexico
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 521 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1288
Start year: 2018
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	Operating	Chihuahua → Sinaloa	572	6.85	762 mm	2018	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
Vista Pacifico LNG Terminal	Mexico	Export	Proposed	4.6 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

TC Energy Corp100%

Parent companies

TC Energy Corp

In the news

Recent headlines that name El Encino-Topolobampo 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 El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline run?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline runs from Chihuahua to Sinaloa, crossing Mexico.
How long is El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is 572 km long.
How much gas can El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline carry?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 6.85 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline operating?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2018.
Who owns El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline is owned by TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

More gas pipelines in Mexico

Listed in name order among the 51 pipelines tracked in Mexico, 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.

Cite this page

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline, Mexico. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/el-encino-topolobampo-gas-pipeline-mx/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelineelencinotopolobampogaspipelinemx2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline, Mexico},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/el-encino-topolobampo-gas-pipeline-mx/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}