Where does Route 4a Gas Pipeline run?

Route 4a Gas Pipeline runs from Santos basin to Cubatão, crossing Brazil.

How long is Route 4a Gas Pipeline?

Route 4a Gas Pipeline is 291 km long.

How much gas can Route 4a Gas Pipeline carry?

Route 4a Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 7.3 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Route 4a Gas Pipeline operating?

Route 4a Gas Pipeline is proposed, with a reported start year of 2025.

Who owns Route 4a Gas Pipeline?

Route 4a Gas Pipeline is owned by Petrobras, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Route 4a Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Route 4a 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.

Route 4a Gas Pipeline, Brazil

Route

Route 4a Gas Pipeline runs from Santos basin to Cubatão. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Santos basin
To: Cubatão
Start country: Brazil
End country: Brazil
Countries crossed: Brazil
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Americas
Route drawn on map: 309 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1373
Start year: 2025
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	Proposed	Santos basin → Cubatão	291	7.3	610 mm	2025	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
Cosan FSRU	Brazil	Import	Operating	8.8 km	route proximity
Santos Basin FLNG Terminal	Brazil	Export	Cancelled	13 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Petrobras100%

Parent companies

Petróleo Brasileiro SA100%

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 Route 4a Gas Pipeline run?: Route 4a Gas Pipeline runs from Santos basin to Cubatão, crossing Brazil.
How long is Route 4a Gas Pipeline?: Route 4a Gas Pipeline is 291 km long.
How much gas can Route 4a Gas Pipeline carry?: Route 4a Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 7.3 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Route 4a Gas Pipeline operating?: Route 4a Gas Pipeline is proposed, with a reported start year of 2025.
Who owns Route 4a Gas Pipeline?: Route 4a Gas Pipeline is owned by Petrobras, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Route 4a Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Route 4a 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.
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.