How long is Nord Stream Gas Pipeline?

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is 1,222 km long.

How much gas can Nord Stream Gas Pipeline carry?

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 55 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Nord Stream Gas Pipeline operating?

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is mothballed, with a reported start year of 2011.

Who owns Nord Stream Gas Pipeline?

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is owned by Nord Stream AG, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Nord Stream Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 4 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline, Russia to Germany

Route

Nord Stream Gas Pipeline runs from Leningrad Oblast to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Leningrad Oblast
To: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Start country: Russia
End country: Germany
Countries crossed: Russia, Germany
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 1,230 km
GEM pipeline ID: P0753
Start year: 2011
Estimated cost (GEM, US dollars): $16.1 billion
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	Mothballed	Leningrad Oblast → Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1,222	55	—	2011	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
Lubmin FSRU	Germany	Import	Proposed	0.5 km	route proximity
Portovaya LNG Terminal	Russia	Export	Operating	2.8 km	route proximity
Lubmin RWE FSRU	Germany	Import	Shelved	5.3 km	route proximity
Mukran FSRU	Germany	Import	Operating	22.1 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Nord Stream AG100%

Parent companies

In the news

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

See all tracked headlines.

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 Nord Stream Gas Pipeline run?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline runs from Leningrad Oblast to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, crossing Russia and Germany.
How long is Nord Stream Gas Pipeline?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is 1,222 km long.
How much gas can Nord Stream Gas Pipeline carry?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 55 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Nord Stream Gas Pipeline operating?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is mothballed, with a reported start year of 2011.
Who owns Nord Stream Gas Pipeline?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline is owned by Nord Stream AG, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Nord Stream Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Nord Stream Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 4 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 Russia

Listed in name order among the 266 pipelines tracked in Russia, 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). Nord Stream Gas Pipeline, Russia to Germany. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/nord-stream-gas-pipeline-ru-de/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinenordstreamgaspipelinerude2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Nord Stream Gas Pipeline, Russia to Germany},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/nord-stream-gas-pipeline-ru-de/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}