Santo Antônio dos Lopes-Caucaia Gas Pipeline

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The Santo Antônio dos Lopes-Caucaia Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through the Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, and Ceará.

Location

The pipeline would run from the Parnaíba power station in Santo Antônio dos Lopes (Maranhão state) to a connection with the GASFOR (Guamaré-Pecém) Gas Pipeline near Caucaia (Ceará state).

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Project Details

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• Capacity: 8 million cubic meters per day)
• Length: 684 km / 425 miles
• Status: Proposed
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Background

The Santo Antônio dos Lopes-Caucaia Gas Pipeline is one of several new pipelines proposed in a November 2020 government plan to expand Brazil's natural gas transmission network. The 684-kilometer, 20-inch pipeline would have an estimated development cost of R$ 6.2 billion (6.2 billion Brazilian reais) and the capacity to deliver 8 million cubic meters of natural gas per day to customers in the states of Maranhão, Piauí, and Ceará. As of November 2020, environmental licensing for the project was underway.

The Santo Antônio dos Lopes-Caucaia pipeline would follow a route similar to the Gasoduto Meio Norte, an earlier pipeline project that received its initial environmental permit in 2005 but was never built. Federal law 14182, passed in July 2021, which calls for the construction of 8 GW of new gas power plants and associated pipelines serving Brazil's interior, has provided new impetus for the pipeline's construction.

A December 2022 update of the Brazilian government's national gas transport plan continued to list the Santo Antônio dos Lopes-Caucaia pipeline as an active project in the licensing phase.