How long is Phased Gas Pipeline Network?

Phased Gas Pipeline Network is 515 km long.

How much gas can Phased Gas Pipeline Network carry?

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

Is Phased Gas Pipeline Network operating?

Phased Gas Pipeline Network is proposed.

Who owns Phased Gas Pipeline Network?

Phased Gas Pipeline Network is owned by Transnet, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Phased Gas Pipeline Network serve an LNG terminal?

Phased Gas Pipeline Network 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.

Phased Gas Pipeline Network: P2471, South Africa

Route

Phased Gas Pipeline Network runs from KwaZulu-Natal to Mpumalanga/Free State. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: KwaZulu-Natal
To: Mpumalanga/Free State
Start country: South Africa
End country: South Africa
Countries crossed: South Africa
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 515 km
GEM pipeline ID: P2471
Start year: Not reported
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
Richards Bay–Gauteng Gas Pipeline	Proposed	KwaZulu-Natal → Mpumalanga/Free State	515	Not reported	—	—	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
Richards Bay FSRU	South Africa	Import	Cancelled	0.8 km	route proximity
Richards Bay Transnet FSRU	South Africa	Import	Proposed	4 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Transnet100%

Parent companies

Transnet SOC Ltd100%

In the news

Recent headlines that name Phased Gas Pipeline Network. 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 Phased Gas Pipeline Network run?: Phased Gas Pipeline Network runs from KwaZulu-Natal to Mpumalanga/Free State, crossing South Africa.
How long is Phased Gas Pipeline Network?: Phased Gas Pipeline Network is 515 km long.
How much gas can Phased Gas Pipeline Network carry?: No design capacity is reported for Phased Gas Pipeline Network. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Is Phased Gas Pipeline Network operating?: Phased Gas Pipeline Network is proposed.
Who owns Phased Gas Pipeline Network?: Phased Gas Pipeline Network is owned by Transnet, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Phased Gas Pipeline Network serve an LNG terminal?: Phased Gas Pipeline Network 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 South Africa

Listed in name order among the 11 pipelines tracked in South Africa, 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.
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.

Cite this page

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Phased Gas Pipeline Network: P2471, South Africa. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/phased-gas-pipeline-network-za-p2471/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinephasedgaspipelinenetworkzap24712026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Phased Gas Pipeline Network: P2471, South Africa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/phased-gas-pipeline-network-za-p2471/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}