Where does OPAL Gas Pipeline run?

OPAL Gas Pipeline runs from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to Sachsen, crossing Germany.

How long is OPAL Gas Pipeline?

OPAL Gas Pipeline is 470 km long.

How much gas can OPAL Gas Pipeline carry?

OPAL Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 35 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is OPAL Gas Pipeline operating?

OPAL Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2011.

Who owns OPAL Gas Pipeline?

OPAL Gas Pipeline is owned by OPAL Gastransport GmbH, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does OPAL Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

OPAL 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.

OPAL Gas Pipeline, Germany

Route

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

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From: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
To: Sachsen
Start country: Germany
End country: Germany
Countries crossed: Germany
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 406 km
GEM pipeline ID: P0713
Start year: 2011
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	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern → Sachsen	470	35	35560 mm	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	0.7 km	route proximity
Lubmin RWE FSRU	Germany	Import	Shelved	6.6 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

OPAL Gastransport GmbH100%

Parent companies

WIGA Transport Beteiligungs- GmbH & Co KG

In the news

Recent headlines that name OPAL 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 OPAL Gas Pipeline run?: OPAL Gas Pipeline runs from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to Sachsen, crossing Germany.
How long is OPAL Gas Pipeline?: OPAL Gas Pipeline is 470 km long.
How much gas can OPAL Gas Pipeline carry?: OPAL Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 35 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is OPAL Gas Pipeline operating?: OPAL Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 2011.
Who owns OPAL Gas Pipeline?: OPAL Gas Pipeline is owned by OPAL Gastransport GmbH, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does OPAL Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: OPAL 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 Germany

Listed in name order among the 90 pipelines tracked in Germany, 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). OPAL Gas Pipeline, Germany. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/opal-gas-pipeline-de/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelineopalgaspipelinede2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {OPAL Gas Pipeline, Germany},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/opal-gas-pipeline-de/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}