Where does Oumi Gas Pipeline run?

Oumi Gas Pipeline runs from Joetsu to Itoigawa, crossing Japan.

How long is Oumi Gas Pipeline?

Oumi Gas Pipeline is 60 km long.

How much gas can Oumi Gas Pipeline carry?

No design capacity is reported for Oumi Gas Pipeline. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Is Oumi Gas Pipeline operating?

Oumi Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1960.

Who owns Oumi Gas Pipeline?

Oumi Gas Pipeline is owned by Inpex, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Oumi Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Oumi 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.

Oumi Gas Pipeline, Japan

Route

Oumi Gas Pipeline runs from Joetsu to Itoigawa. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Joetsu
To: Itoigawa
Start country: Japan
End country: Japan
Countries crossed: Japan
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Asia
Route drawn on map: 36 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1038
Start year: 1960
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	Joetsu → Itoigawa	60	Not reported	150 mm	1960	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
Naoetsu LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	9.8 km	route proximity
Joetsu LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	10.1 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Inpex100%

Parent companies

Inpex100%

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 Oumi Gas Pipeline run?: Oumi Gas Pipeline runs from Joetsu to Itoigawa, crossing Japan.
How long is Oumi Gas Pipeline?: Oumi Gas Pipeline is 60 km long.
How much gas can Oumi Gas Pipeline carry?: No design capacity is reported for Oumi Gas Pipeline. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Is Oumi Gas Pipeline operating?: Oumi Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1960.
Who owns Oumi Gas Pipeline?: Oumi Gas Pipeline is owned by Inpex, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Oumi Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Oumi 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.
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.