How long is Northern Natural Gas Pipeline?

Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is 23,014 km long.

How much gas can Northern Natural Gas Pipeline carry?

Northern Natural Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 64.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Northern Natural Gas Pipeline operating?

Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1930.

Who owns Northern Natural Gas Pipeline?

Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is owned by Northern Natural Gas, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Northern Natural Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Northern Natural 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 Natural Gas Pipeline: P2579, United States

Route

Northern Natural Gas Pipeline runs from Texas to Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan. 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: Texas
To: Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan
Start country: United States
End country: United States
Countries crossed: United States
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 19,387 km
GEM pipeline ID: P2579
Start year: 1930
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	Texas → Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan	23,014	64.4	—	1930	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

Northern Natural Gas100%

Parent companies

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co

In the news

Recent headlines that name Northern Natural Gas Pipeline. 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 Northern Natural Gas Pipeline run?: Northern Natural Gas Pipeline runs from Texas to Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, crossing United States.
How long is Northern Natural Gas Pipeline?: Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is 23,014 km long.
How much gas can Northern Natural Gas Pipeline carry?: Northern Natural Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 64.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Northern Natural Gas Pipeline operating?: Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1930.
Who owns Northern Natural Gas Pipeline?: Northern Natural Gas Pipeline is owned by Northern Natural Gas, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Northern Natural Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Northern Natural 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.

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In our rankings

Where this appears in the site's generated top lists. Each ranking page states its own method before its table.

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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 Natural Gas Pipeline: P2579, United States. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/northern-natural-gas-pipeline-us-p2579/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinenorthernnaturalgaspipelineusp2572026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Northern Natural Gas Pipeline: P2579, United States},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/northern-natural-gas-pipeline-us-p2579/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}