Route 6b Gas Pipeline

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The Route 6b Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline off the Atlantic coast of southeastern Brazil.

Location

The proposed pipeline would run west from the offshore pre-salt fields of Brazil's Campos Basin to Açu Port in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Project Details

• Operator: Petrobras
• Parent Company: Petrobras
• Capacity: 12 million cubic meters per day)
• Length: 118 km / 73 miles
• Status: Shelved
• Start Year:

Background

In May 2019 Brazil's Secretary of Oil and Gas of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Márcio Félix, stated that Petrobras was considering building more pipeline networks, to be called Routes 4, 5 and 6.

Two separate alternatives for the Route 6 pipeline have been proposed, known as Route 6a and Route 6b. The Route 6b alternative calls for the construction of an 118-kilometer, 14-inch pipeline with a capacity of 12 million cubic meters per day and an estimated development cost of R$ 2.49 billion (2.49 billion Brazilian reais). The pipeline would terminate at the Port of Açu in Rio de Janeiro state and would potentially supply several new gas plants that have been proposed in the area.

A November 2021 update of the Brazilian government's offshore gas infrastructure plan continued to list the Route 6b pipeline as an active project, noting that it was still in the "initial studies" phase.

As of August 2024, with no subsequent news about the pipeline in more than two years, the project was presumed to be shelved.