Where does WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline run?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline runs from Persian Gulf to Al Khor, crossing Qatar.

How long is WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is 78 km long.

How much gas can WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline carry?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 16.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline operating?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1996.

Who owns WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is owned by QatarEnergy, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 5 tracked LNG terminals. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline, Qatar

Route

WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline runs from Persian Gulf to Al Khor. 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: Persian Gulf
To: Al Khor
Start country: Qatar
End country: Qatar
Countries crossed: Qatar
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 84 km
GEM pipeline ID: P0502
Start year: 1996
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	Persian Gulf → Al Khor	78	16.4	813 mm	1996	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
Qatar North Field LNG Terminal	Qatar	Export	Under construction	1.9 km	route proximity
QatarEnergy LNG (N)	Qatar	Export	Operating	2.8 km	route proximity
QatarEnergy LNG (S)	Qatar	Export	Operating	4.2 km	route proximity
North Pars LNG Terminal	Iran	Export	Cancelled	16 km	route proximity
South Pars LNG Terminal	Iran	Export	Cancelled	16 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

QatarEnergy100%

Parent companies

QatarEnergy100%

In the news

Recent headlines that name WH-3-Ras Laffan 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 WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline run?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline runs from Persian Gulf to Al Khor, crossing Qatar.
How long is WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is 78 km long.
How much gas can WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline carry?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 16.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline operating?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1996.
Who owns WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline is owned by QatarEnergy, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 5 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 Qatar

Listed in name order among the 59 pipelines tracked in Qatar, 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). WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline, Qatar. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/wh-3-ras-laffan-gas-pipeline-qa/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinewh3raslaffangaspipelineqa2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {WH-3-Ras Laffan gas Pipeline, Qatar},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/wh-3-ras-laffan-gas-pipeline-qa/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}