How long is North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL?

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is 134 km long.

How much gas can North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL carry?

No design capacity is reported for North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Is North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL operating?

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is operating, having started in 1983.

Who owns North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL?

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is owned by Woodside Energy, BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd, Chevron and 2 others, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL serve an LNG terminal?

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL 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.

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL, Australia

Route

North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL runs from Western Australia to Western Australia. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Western Australia
To: Western Australia
Start country: Australia
End country: Australia
Countries crossed: Australia
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 134 km
GEM pipeline ID: P5954
Start year: 1983
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	Western Australia → Western Australia	134	Not reported	1016 mm	1983	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
North West Shelf LNG Terminal	Australia	Export	Operating	0.9 km	route proximity
Pluto LNG Terminal	Australia	Export	Operating	3.2 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Parent companies

Woodside Energy33.33%
BP16.67%
Chevron16.67%
Shell16.67%
Mitsubishi Corp8.34%
Mitsui & Co.8.34%

In the news

Recent headlines that name North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL. 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 North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL run?: North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL runs from Western Australia to Western Australia, crossing Australia.
How long is North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL?: North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is 134 km long.
How much gas can North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL carry?: No design capacity is reported for North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Is North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL operating?: North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is operating, having started in 1983.
Who owns North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL?: North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL is owned by Woodside Energy, BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd, Chevron and 2 others, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL serve an LNG terminal?: North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL 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 Australia

Listed in name order among the 148 pipelines tracked in Australia, 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.
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). North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL, Australia. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/north-west-shelf-gas-pipeline-1tl-au/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinenorthwestshelfgaspipeline1tlau2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {North West Shelf Gas Pipeline 1TL, Australia},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/north-west-shelf-gas-pipeline-1tl-au/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}