Country
France: LNG infrastructure
France has 7 LNG terminals and 23 tracked gas pipelines in the Global Energy Monitor tracker. It is an importer, with 25.4 Mtpa of operating regasification capacity and no operating liquefaction.
Export capacity
—
no export terminal tracked
Import capacity
25.4 Mtpa
1.47 Mtpa under construction
Pipelines
23
42,688 km tracked
Fleet
0
0 flagged, 0 owned from here
Import and export balance
| Direction | Terminals | Operating | Under construction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export (liquefaction) | 0 | — | — |
| Import (regasification) | 7 | 25.4 | 1.47 |
Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.
LNG terminals in France
| Import / export | Type | Units | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunkirk LNG TerminalHauts-de-France | Import | Not reported | Operating | 9.56 Mtpa | 3 | 2017 |
| Fos Cavaou LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Operating | 7.35 Mtpa | 3 | 2010 |
| Fos Lavera Marseille LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Fos Tonkin LNG TerminalProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Import | Not reported | Operating | 1.1 Mtpa | 2 | 1972 |
| Le Havre FSRUNormandy | Import | FSRU | Retired | Not reported | 1 | 2023 |
| Le Havre-Antifer LNG TerminalNormandy | Import | Not reported | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Montoir LNG TerminalPays de la Loire | Import | Not reported | Operating | 7.35 Mtpa | 2 | 1980 |
Gas pipelines crossing France
Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.
| Countries | Segments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annecy-La Gabiule Gas PipelineAnnecy → La Gabiule | France, Switzerland | Operating | 40 km | Not reported | 1 | 1977 |
| Brittany South Gas PipelinePluvigner → Pleyben | France | Operating | 98 km | Not reported | 1 | 2016 |
| Etrez-Vernier Gas PipelineEtrez → Vernier | France, Switzerland | Operating | 73 km | Not reported | 1 | 1989 |
| Flanders Artery PipelineStation NaTran Pitgam → Station NaTran Hondschroote | France | Operating | 23 km | 8 bcm/y | 1 | 2016 |
| Franpipe Gas PipelineDraupner E platform → Port Ouest, Dunkirk | Norway, France | Operating | 840 km | 19.8 bcm/y | 1 | 1998 |
| H2Med PipelineBarcelona → Marseille | Spain, France | Proposed | 450 km | 2.72 bcm/y | 1 | 2029 |
| Irun-Biriatou Gas PipelineIrun → Biriatou | Spain, France | Operating | 4 km | 11.3 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Larrau–Villar de Arnedo Gas PipelineLarrau → El Villar de Arnedo | France, Spain | Operating | 145 km | Not reported | 1 | 2007 |
| Le Havre–Paris Gas PipelineParis → Le Havre | France | Operating | 181 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| MEGAL–France Gas PipelineMedelsheim → Laneuvelotte | France, Germany | Operating | 86 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Midi-Catalonia Pipeline | Spain, France | Cancelled | 1,250 km | 7.5 bcm/y | 1 | 2022 |
| Midi-Catalonia PipelineHostalric → Bairba | Spain, France | Cancelled | 227 km | Not reported | 1 | 2024 |
| Morelmaison-Rodersdorf Gas PipelineMorelmaison → Rodersdorf | France, Switzerland | Operating | 162 km | Not reported | 1 | 1998 |
| Morelmaison–Voisines Gas PipelineVoisines → Morelmaison | France | Operating | 169 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkCuvilly → Haute Marne | France | Operating | 308 km | 15 bcm/y | 1 | 2015 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkLoon-Plage → Oise | France | Operating | 191 km | 13 bcm/y | 1 | 2014 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline Network | France | Operating | 29,574 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkMontoir LNG Terminal → Cherré | France | Proposed | 200 km | Not reported | 1 | 2017 |
| NaTran Gas Pipeline NetworkCherré → Saint-Arnould De Bois | France | Proposed | 63 km | Not reported | 1 | 2024 |
| Persian Gas Pipeline | Iran, Türkiye, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Spain | Cancelled | 3,300 km | 40 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Teréga Gas Pipeline NetworkSouthwest France → Southwest France | France | Operating | 4,691 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Transitgas–Laneuvelotte–Obergailbach Gas PipelineRodersdorf → Obergailbach | France, Switzerland | Operating | 327 km | Not reported | 1 | 2006 |
| Voisines–Lyon Gas PipelineLyon → Voisines | France | Operating | 284 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
Companies headquartered in France
Chokepoint exposure
Chokepoint exposure is shown on each terminal page, taken from a hand-maintained trade-lane table. It is an editorial routing model of typical laden voyages, not vessel tracking. The exposure feed aggregates it by chokepoint.