How long is Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline?

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is 600 km long.

How much gas can Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline carry?

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 0.61 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline operating?

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1995.

Who owns Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline?

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is owned by Transnet, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Secunda–Durban Lilly 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.

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline, South Africa

Route

Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline runs from Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal. 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: Mpumalanga
To: KwaZulu-Natal
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: 594 km
GEM pipeline ID: P2475
Start year: 1995
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
Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline	Operating	Mpumalanga → KwaZulu-Natal	600	0.61	457 mm	1995	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	3.4 km	route proximity
Richards Bay Transnet FSRU	South Africa	Import	Proposed	4.3 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 Secunda–Durban Lilly 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 Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline run?: Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline runs from Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal, crossing South Africa.
How long is Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline?: Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is 600 km long.
How much gas can Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline carry?: Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 0.61 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline operating?: Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1995.
Who owns Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline?: Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline is owned by Transnet, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Secunda–Durban Lilly 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.

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.
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.

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline, South Africa. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/secunda-durban-lilly-gas-pipeline-za/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinesecundadurbanlillygaspipelineza2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas Pipeline, South Africa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/secunda-durban-lilly-gas-pipeline-za/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}