Where does West-East Gas Pipeline run?

West-East Gas Pipeline runs from Karratha to Moomba, crossing Australia.

How long is West-East Gas Pipeline?

West-East Gas Pipeline is 2,900 km long.

How much gas can West-East Gas Pipeline carry?

West-East Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 5.67 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is West-East Gas Pipeline operating?

West-East Gas Pipeline is shelved.

Who owns West-East Gas Pipeline?

Ownership of West-East Gas Pipeline is not reported in the current tracker release.

Does West-East Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

West-East 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.

West-East Gas Pipeline, Australia

Route

West-East Gas Pipeline runs from Karratha to Moomba. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

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From: Karratha
To: Moomba
Start country: Australia
End country: Australia
Countries crossed: Australia
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Oceania
Route drawn on map: 3,061 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1197
Start year: Not reported
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	Shelved	Karratha → Moomba	2,900	5.67	—	—	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
Pluto LNG Terminal	Australia	Export	Operating	19.1 km	route proximity
North West Shelf LNG Terminal	Australia	Export	Operating	20.4 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Ownership is not reported for this pipeline.

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 West-East Gas Pipeline run?: West-East Gas Pipeline runs from Karratha to Moomba, crossing Australia.
How long is West-East Gas Pipeline?: West-East Gas Pipeline is 2,900 km long.
How much gas can West-East Gas Pipeline carry?: West-East Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 5.67 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is West-East Gas Pipeline operating?: West-East Gas Pipeline is shelved.
Who owns West-East Gas Pipeline?: Ownership of West-East Gas Pipeline is not reported in the current tracker release.
Does West-East Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: West-East 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.