Where does PNG LNG Pipeline run?

PNG LNG Pipeline runs from Hela to National Capital District, crossing Papua New Guinea.

How long is PNG LNG Pipeline?

PNG LNG Pipeline is 700 km long.

How much gas can PNG LNG Pipeline carry?

PNG LNG Pipeline has a design capacity of 10.2 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is PNG LNG Pipeline operating?

PNG LNG Pipeline is operating, having started in 2014.

Who owns PNG LNG Pipeline?

PNG LNG Pipeline is owned by PNG LNG Inc, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does PNG LNG Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

PNG LNG Pipeline passes within 25 km of 3 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

PNG LNG Pipeline, Papua New Guinea

Route

PNG LNG Pipeline runs from Hela to National Capital District. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Hela
To: National Capital District
Start country: Papua New Guinea
End country: Papua New Guinea
Countries crossed: Papua New Guinea
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 679 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1078
Start year: 2014
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	Hela → National Capital District	700	10.2	813 mm	2014	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
Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal	Papua New Guinea	Export	Operating	0 km	route proximity
Papua LNG Terminal	Papua New Guinea	Export	Proposed	1.1 km	route proximity
Liquid Niugini FLNG Terminal	Papua New Guinea	Export	Cancelled	21.1 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

PNG LNG Inc100%

Parent companies

In the news

Recent headlines that name PNG LNG 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 PNG LNG Pipeline run?: PNG LNG Pipeline runs from Hela to National Capital District, crossing Papua New Guinea.
How long is PNG LNG Pipeline?: PNG LNG Pipeline is 700 km long.
How much gas can PNG LNG Pipeline carry?: PNG LNG Pipeline has a design capacity of 10.2 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is PNG LNG Pipeline operating?: PNG LNG Pipeline is operating, having started in 2014.
Who owns PNG LNG Pipeline?: PNG LNG Pipeline is owned by PNG LNG Inc, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does PNG LNG Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: PNG LNG Pipeline passes within 25 km of 3 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 Papua New Guinea

Listed in name order among the 5 pipelines tracked in Papua New Guinea, 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.

Cite this page

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). PNG LNG Pipeline, Papua New Guinea. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/png-lng-pipeline-pg/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinepnglngpipelinepg2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {PNG LNG Pipeline, Papua New Guinea},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/png-lng-pipeline-pg/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}