Where does Northern Gas Pipeline run?

Northern Gas Pipeline runs from Tennant Creek to Mount Isa, crossing Australia.

How long is Northern Gas Pipeline?

Northern Gas Pipeline is 622 km long.

How much gas can Northern Gas Pipeline carry?

Northern Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 8.91 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Northern Gas Pipeline operating?

Northern Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2019.

Who owns Northern Gas Pipeline?

Northern Gas Pipeline is owned by Jemena Northern Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Northern Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Northern 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 Gas Pipeline: Tennant Creek

Route

Northern Gas Pipeline runs from Tennant Creek to Mount Isa. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Tennant Creek
To: Mount Isa
Start country: Australia
End country: Australia
Countries crossed: Australia
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Oceania
Route drawn on map: 613 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1174
Start year: 2019
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
Main Line	Operating	Tennant Creek → Mount Isa	622	8.91	—	2019	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	Shelved	—	name match
Northern Vietnam LNG Terminal	Vietnam	Import	Shelved	—	name match

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Jemena Northern Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd100%

Parent companies

SGSP (Australia) Assets Pty Ltd100%

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 Gas Pipeline run?: Northern Gas Pipeline runs from Tennant Creek to Mount Isa, crossing Australia.
How long is Northern Gas Pipeline?: Northern Gas Pipeline is 622 km long.
How much gas can Northern Gas Pipeline carry?: Northern Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 8.91 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Northern Gas Pipeline operating?: Northern Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2019.
Who owns Northern Gas Pipeline?: Northern Gas Pipeline is owned by Jemena Northern Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Northern Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Northern 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.

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.