Where does Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline run?

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is recorded in Norway. Global Energy Monitor reports no start and end points for it.

How long is Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline?

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is 143 km long.

How much gas can Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline carry?

No design capacity is reported for Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Is Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline operating?

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is operating, having started in 2007.

Who owns Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline?

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is owned by Equinor, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline passes within 25 km of 11 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline, Norway

Route

Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline runs from Norway. 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: North Sea
To: Not reported
Start country: Norway
End country: Norway
Countries crossed: Norway
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 143 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1607
Start year: 2007
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	North Sea → ?	143	Not reported	711 mm	2007	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
Hammerfest LNG Snohvit Terminal	Norway	Export	Operating	0.1 km	route proximity
Chuanbi Island LNG Terminal	China	Import	Cancelled	—	name match
Das Island LNG Terminal	United Arab Emirates	Export	Operating	—	name match
Elba Island LNG Terminal	United States	Export	Operating	—	name match
Island Power Producers LNG Terminal	Bahamas	Import	Proposed	—	name match
Karimun Island LNG Terminal	Indonesia	Import	Cancelled	—	name match
Monkey Island LNG Terminal	United States	Export	Proposed	—	name match
Pagbilao Grande Island LNG Terminal	Philippines	Import	Shelved	—	name match
Tilbury Island LNG Terminal	Canada	Export	Operating	—	name match
Watson Island LNG Terminal	Canada	Export	Cancelled	—	name match
Zhiwan Island LNG Terminal	China	Import	Shelved	—	name match

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Equinor100%

Parent companies

Equinor ASA100%

In the news

Recent headlines that name Snohvit–Melkoya Island 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 Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline run?: Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is recorded in Norway. Global Energy Monitor reports no start and end points for it.
How long is Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline?: Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is 143 km long.
How much gas can Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline carry?: No design capacity is reported for Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Is Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline operating?: Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is operating, having started in 2007.
Who owns Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline?: Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline is owned by Equinor, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline passes within 25 km of 11 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 Norway

Listed in name order among the 33 pipelines tracked in Norway, 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.

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline, Norway. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/snohvit-melkoya-island-pipeline-no/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinesnohvitmelkoyaislandpipelineno2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Snohvit–Melkoya Island Pipeline, Norway},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/snohvit-melkoya-island-pipeline-no/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}