Where does Northern Border Gas Pipeline run?

Northern Border Gas Pipeline runs from Montana to Indiana, crossing Canada and United States.

How long is Northern Border Gas Pipeline?

Northern Border Gas Pipeline is 2,272 km long.

How much gas can Northern Border Gas Pipeline carry?

Northern Border Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 24.5 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Northern Border Gas Pipeline operating?

Northern Border Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1982.

Who owns Northern Border Gas Pipeline?

Northern Border Gas Pipeline is owned by ONEOK Inc and TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Northern Border Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Northern Border 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.

Northern Border Gas Pipeline, Canada to United States

Route

Northern Border Gas Pipeline runs from Montana to Indiana. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

Loads about 250 kB of map code and the country outline file.

From: Montana
To: Indiana
Start country: Canada
End country: United States
Countries crossed: Canada, United States
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 2,268 km
GEM pipeline ID: P2099
Start year: 1982
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	Montana → Indiana	2,272	24.5	—	1982	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
Northern Territory LNG Terminal	Australia	Export	Proposed	—	name match
Northern Vietnam LNG Terminal	Vietnam	Import	Proposed	—	name match

Owners and operators

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

Owners

ONEOK Inc50%
TC Energy Corp50%

Parent companies

ONEOK Inc50%
TC Energy Corp50%

In the news

Recent headlines that name Northern Border 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 Northern Border Gas Pipeline run?: Northern Border Gas Pipeline runs from Montana to Indiana, crossing Canada and United States.
How long is Northern Border Gas Pipeline?: Northern Border Gas Pipeline is 2,272 km long.
How much gas can Northern Border Gas Pipeline carry?: Northern Border Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 24.5 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Northern Border Gas Pipeline operating?: Northern Border Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1982.
Who owns Northern Border Gas Pipeline?: Northern Border Gas Pipeline is owned by ONEOK Inc and TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Northern Border Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Northern Border 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 Canada

Listed in name order among the 67 pipelines tracked in Canada, 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). Northern Border Gas Pipeline, Canada to United States. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/northern-border-gas-pipeline-ca-us/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinenorthernbordergaspipelinecaus2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Northern Border Gas Pipeline, Canada to United States},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/northern-border-gas-pipeline-ca-us/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}