Where does Zeepipe Gas Pipeline run?

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline runs from North Sea to West Flanders, crossing Norway.

How long is Zeepipe Gas Pipeline?

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline is 844 km long.

How much gas can Zeepipe Gas Pipeline carry?

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 15 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Zeepipe Gas Pipeline operating?

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1993.

Who owns Zeepipe Gas Pipeline?

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

Does Zeepipe Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline: North Sea–West Flanders, 1993

Route

Zeepipe Gas Pipeline runs from North Sea to West Flanders. 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: West Flanders
Start country: Norway
End country: Belgium
Countries crossed: Norway
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Not reported
Route drawn on map: 844 km
GEM pipeline ID: P1770
Start year: 1993
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
Zeepipe I	Operating	North Sea → West Flanders	844	15	762 mm	1993	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
Zeebrugge LNG Terminal	Belgium	Import	Operating	0.5 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Gasled100%

Parent companies

In the news

Recent headlines that name Zeepipe 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 Zeepipe Gas Pipeline run?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline runs from North Sea to West Flanders, crossing Norway.
How long is Zeepipe Gas Pipeline?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline is 844 km long.
How much gas can Zeepipe Gas Pipeline carry?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline has a design capacity of 15 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Zeepipe Gas Pipeline operating?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline is operating, having started in 1993.
Who owns Zeepipe Gas Pipeline?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline is owned by Gasled, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Zeepipe Gas Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Zeepipe Gas Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. 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.
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). Zeepipe Gas Pipeline: North Sea–West Flanders, 1993. https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/zeepipe-gas-pipeline-no/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlaspipelinezeepipegaspipelineno2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Zeepipe Gas Pipeline: North Sea–West Flanders, 1993},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/pipeline/zeepipe-gas-pipeline-no/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, November 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}