Where does Tauern Gas Pipeline run?

Tauern Gas Pipeline runs from Bayern to Friuli Venezia Giulia, crossing Germany, Austria and Italy.

How long is Tauern Gas Pipeline?

Tauern Gas Pipeline is 290 km long.

How much gas can Tauern Gas Pipeline carry?

Tauern Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 11.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Tauern Gas Pipeline operating?

Tauern Gas Pipeline is cancelled.

Who owns Tauern Gas Pipeline?

Tauern Gas Pipeline is owned by Tauern Gas Pipeline, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Tauern Gas Pipeline, Germany to Italy

Route

Tauern Gas Pipeline runs from Bayern to Friuli Venezia Giulia. 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: Bayern
To: Friuli Venezia Giulia
Start country: Germany
End country: Italy
Countries crossed: Germany, Austria, Italy
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 660 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1326
Start year: Not reported
Shelved (year GEM records): 2015
Cancelled (year GEM records): 2017
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	Bayern → Friuli Venezia Giulia	290	11.4	22860 mm	—	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.

No tracked LNG terminal lies within 25 km of this pipeline's route.

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Tauern Gas Pipeline100%

Parent companies

E.ON Ruhrgas AG48%
Salzburg AG für Energie, Verkehr und Telekommunikation AG12.5%
OÖ Landesholding GmbH11.2%
Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG9.8%
KELAG7.5%
Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG3%
Linz AG2.2%
TIWAG-Tiroler Wasserkraft AG1.8%
Oberbank AG1.1%
Verbund AG1.1%

In the news

Recent headlines that name Tauern 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 Tauern Gas Pipeline run?: Tauern Gas Pipeline runs from Bayern to Friuli Venezia Giulia, crossing Germany, Austria and Italy.
How long is Tauern Gas Pipeline?: Tauern Gas Pipeline is 290 km long.
How much gas can Tauern Gas Pipeline carry?: Tauern Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 11.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Tauern Gas Pipeline operating?: Tauern Gas Pipeline is cancelled.
Who owns Tauern Gas Pipeline?: Tauern Gas Pipeline is owned by Tauern Gas Pipeline, as recorded in the current tracker release.

More gas pipelines in Germany

Listed in name order among the 90 pipelines tracked in Germany, 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.

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). Tauern Gas Pipeline, Germany to Italy. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/tauern-gas-pipeline-de-at-it/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinetauerngaspipelinedeatit2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Tauern Gas Pipeline, Germany to Italy},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/tauern-gas-pipeline-de-at-it/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}