Major monitored natural gas pipeline routes — flow status and disruptions
Gas is the part of this crisis that runs on a clock rather than a headline. EU storage stood at 74.47% on GEF’s direct GIE read for gas day 17 October (843.65 TWh), up from 70.87% on 26 September and 68.04% on 12 September — an average of about +0.18 percentage points a day since 12 September. Reaching the relaxed 80% target by 1 November needs about +0.37 a day. GEF rates the trajectory BORDERLINE: at the 35-day pace (+0.18) the EU finishes near 77.2%, and at the latest gas day (+0.16) near 76.9% — just short of 80% but inside the regulation’s flexibility band. The daily trend dipped to +0.08 on 15 October and recovered to +0.16 on 17 October. A correction: on 23 September this page called the trajectory OFF PACE on a market report that implied the pace had halved; the direct read shows it had not.
The aggregate hides where the shortfall sits. Germany is at 61.01% of working capacity and the Netherlands at 64.48%, far behind last year, and the head of its Federal Network Agency has called the legal target unrealistic. The storage association INES projects about 65% by 1 November and modelled a severe 2010-type winter emptying German stores in January or February; the regulator’s own position is that supply is stable under normal winter conditions and stable imports. Norwegian pipeline supply, Europe’s largest source, is constrained by maintenance, with bookings down to 262.5 mcm/day.
Prices reflect the tension without resolving it. TTF traded near €89/MWh on 16 October (oenergetice.cz front-month quote, indicative), up about 2.7% on the day and up roughly 170% on the year, after about €85 on 15 October and about €73 on 5 October as attacks on shipping in and near Hormuz revived supply fears; it had fallen to €71.86 on 23 September on renewed US–Iran talks. Drivers cited include Gulf LNG flows limited by Hormuz disruption, competition for spot cargoes, low winter storage reserves and a forecast early cold snap in northeastern Europe, with partial relief from a recovery in Norwegian pipeline supply. Qatari LNG — about a fifth of seaborne supply before the war — still cannot leave the Gulf in volume while Hormuz remains closed on Day 233, so Europe competes with Asia for Atlantic cargoes to fill its stores.
Why it matters: the risk has moved from concentration to level. A small number of routes feeding the thinnest stores was the concern in summer; now the aggregate itself is only borderline, the largest consumer is furthest behind, and any pipeline interruption between now and November lands on a system with no slack left to absorb it.
This page tracks operational status of major international natural gas pipelines, with a focus on the routes that carry Russian, Caspian and Middle Eastern gas to European, Turkish and South Asian markets. The map and incident list above are updated as new operator filings, government statements and verified open-source incident reports arrive. Status categories follow the GEF threshold framework: offline / destroyed indicates a pipeline that is not currently transporting volumes due to physical damage or operator shutdown; disrupted indicates reduced flow or repeated incidents threatening operational integrity; reduced indicates flowing below contracted or nameplate capacity; active indicates flowing within normal range.
The undersea pipeline carrying Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Turkey, with onward branches into Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia. TurkStream now carries the largest share of Russian gas still reaching Europe following the 2022 reduction of Nord Stream and the gradual phase-down of Ukrainian-transit volumes. The system came under a sustained drone-attack campaign in March-April 2026 — Gazprom said facilities tied to TurkStream and Blue Stream were targeted twelve times in a two-week window, with three drones intercepted at the Russkaya compressor station on April 2. A separate plot was foiled on April 5 in Kanjiza, northern Serbia, where approximately four kilograms of explosives were found in two backpacks within a few hundred metres of the Balkan-Stream branch crossing toward Hungary. Hungary and Serbia subsequently reinforced military protection along the route. Flow has held at approximately 75–80% of contracted volumes through the cycle. The subsea section remains the operational concern: a successful attack disabling TurkStream would cut Hungary's, Slovakia's and Serbia's primary supply.
The 2,577km pipeline carrying Iranian natural gas to eastern Turkey has been effectively offline since March 24, 2026 following destruction of the South Pars feedstock infrastructure in the March 18 strikes — Day 210 today. The 25-year contract for up to 9.6 Bcm/year expired on July 1, 2026; Turkish Energy Minister Bayraktar said in April that no formal extension negotiations had begun, and GEF has found no renewal announced since. Iran historically supplied roughly 10-14% of Turkey's gas-import portfolio via the pipeline. The shutdown has tightened Turkish winter-cover margins and forced Turkey to increase Azerbaijani and Russian (via TurkStream) imports plus LNG spot purchases as substitution; new long-term LNG agreements have been signed with ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies. Restoration timing depends both on Iranian upstream repairs and on whether a new contract is negotiated; no formal restart date has been announced.
The Ras Laffan Industrial City — about a fifth of global seaborne LNG supply — has been effectively offline since early March 2026. Iranian missile strikes on March 18 destroyed two of fourteen LNG trains (Trains 4 and 6), removing ~17% of QatarEnergy's export capacity; QatarEnergy declared long-term force majeure to buyers in China, South Korea, Italy and Belgium, and replacement-equipment lead times of 2-4 years mean those two trains will be offline for years. On June 21-22 an internal explosion at the Barzan local-supply facility during restart operations killed at least 13 people; Qatar said it was a technical malfunction and would not affect LNG exports. The twelve undamaged trains could return to full capacity within about a month of safe Hormuz transit being established — which is why the strait, not the plant, sets the timeline. With Hormuz still CRITICAL on Day 233 and Iran’s President rejecting a reopening offer at the UN on 23 September, no restart date can be assigned.
The Soviet-era pipeline system carrying Russian and Kazakh crude oil into Central and Eastern Europe is technically a crude-oil pipeline rather than gas, but its disruption status affects European refining economics that downstream affect gas demand for power generation. The southern leg to Hungary and Slovakia restarted April 22, 2026 after a halt lasting months following a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian section in late January; flows resumed at approximately 0935 GMT and the EU Ukraine loan was unblocked the same week. The northern leg supplying PCK Schwedt in Germany has been halted since May 1, 2026 following Russia's confirmation that Kazakh crude transit through Druzhba would stop — Day 172 today. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic now receive Russian volumes via the restored southern leg.
The site continues to track flow status of the TANAP (Trans-Anatolian Pipeline) carrying Azerbaijani gas to Turkey and Europe, the Dolphin pipeline (Qatar-UAE-Oman, reduced as North Field output ran at ~17% deficit during the Ras Laffan outage), the Habshan/UAE gas-processing complex (suspended twice after March-April missile and drone debris incidents, partial operations resumed), the South Pars Iranian feedstock infrastructure (destroyed by March 18 strikes), the Yamal-Europe and Power of Siberia Russian export routes, and the 280+ additional commercial gas pipeline routes that make up the global trade network. The full disruption map and incident feed above reflect the current operational status of all monitored routes.
European gas storage levels (tracked separately on the storage page) cannot fully insulate the continent from pipeline disruption — storage provides withdrawal-season cover, not injection-season substitution. On GEF’s direct GIE read the EU aggregate was 74.47% on 17 October, refilling at about +0.18 points a day against roughly +0.37 needed for the relaxed 80% target by 1 November; Germany, at roughly 61%, is furthest behind. The continued availability of TurkStream remains the single most important variable for Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia, while Norwegian maintenance has cut bookings on Europe’s largest supply route. Combined with the lapsed Tabriz–Ankara contract, the multi-year Ras Laffan capacity loss and the Druzhba north halt, Europe enters the 2026-27 winter with its tightest gas position since 2022. TTF traded near €89/MWh on 16 October (indicative), up roughly 170% on the year. For the broader picture of how pipeline disruption interacts with refining margins, retail fuel prices and consumer-side outages, see the weekly risk analysis briefing.