Where does Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline run?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline runs from Russia to Japan, crossing Russia and Japan.

How long is Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is 1,500 km long.

How much gas can Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline carry?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 25 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline operating?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is cancelled.

Who owns Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is owned by Gazprom PJSC and Japanese Pipeline Development & Operation Inc, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 9 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline, Russia to Japan

Route

Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline runs from Russia – Japan. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

Loads about 250 kB of map code and the country outline file.

From: Not reported
To: Hokkaido
Start country: Russia
End country: Japan
Countries crossed: Russia, Japan
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 1,397 km
GEM pipeline ID: P0828
Start year: Not reported
Estimated cost (GEM, US dollars): $6.7 billion
Cancelled (year GEM records): 2021
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	Cancelled	? → Hokkaido	1,500	25	—	—	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
Sakhalin II LNG Terminal	Russia	Export	Operating	1.6 km	route proximity
Hachinohe LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	3.2 km	route proximity
Hitachi LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	4.3 km	route proximity
Ishikari LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	5.2 km	route proximity
Sendai LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	6.1 km	route proximity
Shin Minato LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	6.8 km	route proximity
Shin-Sendai LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	7.8 km	route proximity
Hakodate LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	12.4 km	route proximity
Soma Port LNG Terminal	Japan	Import	Operating	17.4 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Parent companies

Gazprom PJSC

In the news

Recent headlines that name Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline. Matched by name, so it is approximate. Titles and links only; we store no article text.

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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 Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline run?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline runs from Russia to Japan, crossing Russia and Japan.
How long is Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is 1,500 km long.
How much gas can Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline carry?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 25 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline operating?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is cancelled.
Who owns Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline is owned by Gazprom PJSC and Japanese Pipeline Development & Operation Inc, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 9 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 Russia

Listed in name order among the 266 pipelines tracked in Russia, 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). Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline, Russia to Japan. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/sakhalin-hokkaido-gas-pipeline-ru-jp/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinesakhalinhokkaidogaspipelinerujp2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline, Russia to Japan},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/sakhalin-hokkaido-gas-pipeline-ru-jp/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}