How long is Flanders Artery Pipeline?

Flanders Artery Pipeline is 23 km long.

How much gas can Flanders Artery Pipeline carry?

Flanders Artery Pipeline has a design capacity of 8 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Flanders Artery Pipeline operating?

Flanders Artery Pipeline is operating, having started in 2016.

Who owns Flanders Artery Pipeline?

Flanders Artery Pipeline is owned by NaTran, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Flanders Artery Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Flanders Artery 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.

Flanders Artery Pipeline, France

Route

Flanders Artery Pipeline runs from Station NaTran Pitgam to Station NaTran Hondschroote. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Station NaTran Pitgam
To: Station NaTran Hondschroote
Start country: France
End country: France
Countries crossed: France
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Europe
Route drawn on map: 22 km
GEM pipeline ID: P4084
Start year: 2016
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
Pitgam-Hondschoote	Operating	Station NaTran Pitgam → Station NaTran Hondschroote	23	8	1000 mm	2016	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
Dunkirk LNG Terminal	France	Import	Operating	14.7 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

NaTran100%

Parent companies

ENGIE SA60.8%
Société d'Infrastructures Gazières SA38.6%

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 Flanders Artery Pipeline run?: Flanders Artery Pipeline runs from Station NaTran Pitgam to Station NaTran Hondschroote, crossing France.
How long is Flanders Artery Pipeline?: Flanders Artery Pipeline is 23 km long.
How much gas can Flanders Artery Pipeline carry?: Flanders Artery Pipeline has a design capacity of 8 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Flanders Artery Pipeline operating?: Flanders Artery Pipeline is operating, having started in 2016.
Who owns Flanders Artery Pipeline?: Flanders Artery Pipeline is owned by NaTran, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Flanders Artery Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Flanders Artery 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.

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.