page_title: Brofjorden
section_title: Oil refinery
hierarchical_section_title: Brofjorden / History / Oil refinery
caption_attribution_description: "Rädda Brofjorden" står det på en bergshäll i Lahälla mitt emot oljeraffinaderiet Preemraff i Brofjorden i Bohuslän. Klottret syftar på byggande av oljeraffinaderiet på 1970-talet.
context_page_description: Brofjorden is a fjord in Lysekil Municipality, Bohuslän, Sweden. It cuts into Västra Götaland County in a southwest–northeasterly direction between the Stångenäset and Härnäset peninsulas. Situated between Gullmarn and Åbyfjorden, it is the smallest of these fjords.
  Brofjorden Port in the fjord is Sweden's largest oil port.
context_section_description: Plans for a refinery had been discussed ever since the Swedish consumer-owned oil company Oljekonsumenters Riksförbund (OK), was formed in 1945. There were many long and heated debates in the 1960s, about where the refinery should be located. The two main proposed sites were Brofjorden and Hisingen in Gothenburg. The fjord was deep and wide enough to accommodate large oil tankers, while Hisingen provided an already exploited area with infrastructure on land. Those against establishing the refinery at Brofjorden were in majority, led by Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. An association under the slogan Rädda Brofjorden! ("Save Brofjorden!") was formed and with the newly awakened interest for nature conservation, they received a lot of coverage in media.
  Due to the massive protests, environmental issues and safety became two of the main concerns in planning the refinery. Since the plant would also be very visible in the landscape by the fjord, one of the directives was to make it "the world's most beautiful oil refinery ever". Trial runs with tankers were made on the fjord in summer 1970. The largest tanker to test the fjord was the 230,000-ton supertanker Texaco Frankfurt. As of 2015, the largest ship to enter the fjord is the 470,000 dwt Burmah Enterprize.
  On 25 November 1970, the government voted in favor of the Brofjorden site and in September 1971, permission was granted to OK to start building the refinery. At an estimated cost of SEK 750–800 million, the refinery was inaugurated on 29 May 1975. While the plant and the storage tanks for the oil products are above ground and visible for miles around the site, the crude oil is stored in four large cisterns that can hold up to 800,000 m³ (28,000,000 cu ft), blasted out of the granite bedrock below the plant.
caption: The Rädda Brofjorden! slogan is still visible on cliffs around the fjord.
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