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tumn of 1973), leading the country into a debt crisis and the first period
of Yugoslav inflation (Borak 2005, 1213).
While the ideas of developing heavy industries in the hinterland of
the Port of Koper were eventually discarded, the development of port
capacities for handling and storing liquid cargo in partnership with
Ljubljana-based Petrol and the search for alternative energy sources came
to the fore at the outbreak of the oil crisis. In 1971, Petrol sold more than
a million tons of petroleum products and sales continued to grow in the
following decades with two million tons of petroleum products. In the
late 1970s, they turned to alternative energy sources such as gas. With
the newly built gas pipelines in Austria and Italy, thinking about the pos-
sibility of supplying natural gas to Slovenia had become feasible. The gas-
ification of Slovenia also dates back to this period, as the company TOZD
Petrol Zemeljski Plin was founded in 1975, which began transporting gas
in 1978 after the construction of the first main gas pipeline (Lorenčič
2013, 124).
A new study was prepared in 1975 (Žiberna et al. 1975) related to the
construction of a refinery in Koper, followed, in 1978, by another pre-
pared by the Port of Koper about the possibility of a connection between
the port of Koper and the Aquila refinery near Trieste. The report envis-
aged an increase in the capacity of the Koper oil terminal and the con-
struction of two pipelines, one for oil and the other for the refined prod-
uct, connecting the port of Koper and the Iplas factory with the Trieste
refinery. The oil pipeline was supposed to run along the western slope of
Sermin, along the left bank of the Rižana across the Ankaran bonifika to
Škofije; from there, along the route of the abandoned Trieste-Poreč line
to the state border and then across the Miljska plain to the Aquila refin-
ery. The total length of the pipeline was 6.0 km, 4.11 km of which was on
the Yugoslav side and 1.89 km on the Italian side.35 The product pipeline
would run from the Aquila refinery along the same route in the opposite
direction, crossing the Ankaran intersection and the Rižana river in a
straight line to the petroleum products storage complex below and in the
eastern part of Sermin. The length of the route of the product pipelines
35 A total of 6.5 km on the terrain, of which 4.53 km was on the Yugoslav side and
1.97 km on the Italian side.
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tumn of 1973), leading the country into a debt crisis and the first period
of Yugoslav inflation (Borak 2005, 1213).
While the ideas of developing heavy industries in the hinterland of
the Port of Koper were eventually discarded, the development of port
capacities for handling and storing liquid cargo in partnership with
Ljubljana-based Petrol and the search for alternative energy sources came
to the fore at the outbreak of the oil crisis. In 1971, Petrol sold more than
a million tons of petroleum products and sales continued to grow in the
following decades with two million tons of petroleum products. In the
late 1970s, they turned to alternative energy sources such as gas. With
the newly built gas pipelines in Austria and Italy, thinking about the pos-
sibility of supplying natural gas to Slovenia had become feasible. The gas-
ification of Slovenia also dates back to this period, as the company TOZD
Petrol Zemeljski Plin was founded in 1975, which began transporting gas
in 1978 after the construction of the first main gas pipeline (Lorenčič
2013, 124).
A new study was prepared in 1975 (Žiberna et al. 1975) related to the
construction of a refinery in Koper, followed, in 1978, by another pre-
pared by the Port of Koper about the possibility of a connection between
the port of Koper and the Aquila refinery near Trieste. The report envis-
aged an increase in the capacity of the Koper oil terminal and the con-
struction of two pipelines, one for oil and the other for the refined prod-
uct, connecting the port of Koper and the Iplas factory with the Trieste
refinery. The oil pipeline was supposed to run along the western slope of
Sermin, along the left bank of the Rižana across the Ankaran bonifika to
Škofije; from there, along the route of the abandoned Trieste-Poreč line
to the state border and then across the Miljska plain to the Aquila refin-
ery. The total length of the pipeline was 6.0 km, 4.11 km of which was on
the Yugoslav side and 1.89 km on the Italian side.35 The product pipeline
would run from the Aquila refinery along the same route in the opposite
direction, crossing the Ankaran intersection and the Rižana river in a
straight line to the petroleum products storage complex below and in the
eastern part of Sermin. The length of the route of the product pipelines
35 A total of 6.5 km on the terrain, of which 4.53 km was on the Yugoslav side and
1.97 km on the Italian side.
146
