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The Post-war Economy in Koper: Development Plans for the Port Industrial Activities ...
was expected to be 5.0 km on the map, and 5.5 km along the terrain, 3.53
km of which was on the Yugoslav side and 1.97 km on the Italian side.36
The document ‘Concept and Strategy of Coastal Development to 1985’
presented a new concept for the long-term economic development of the
coastal region and, again, the development of the energy-industrial zone
with the chemical industry was pivotal. In accordance with the guide-
lines of the Slovenian economic strategy, or the so-called ‘Programme
of activities for the development of the concept of oil and gas economy’,
which was adopted in Slovenia in 1978, the long-term development plan
in Koper aimed at the expansion of the petrochemical and energy-re-
lated industries. At the municipal and coastal level, this perspective be-
gan to consider the establishment of a Koper Energy and Industrial Zone
Business Community, which would focus its activities on the construc-
tion of a liquefied natural gas terminal and its connection to the main
gas pipeline in the medium term. The terminal was supposed to pro-
vide the necessary additional quantities of gas for the implementation
of Slovenia’s gasification programme, and was also expected to benefit
the transit of gas to Croatia. Afterwards, the construction of propylene
chemistry facilities and the construction of terminals for petrochemical
products would follow. Together with the liquefied gas terminal, a propyl-
ene terminal was to be built, in order to connect the propylene pipeline
with the Iplas plants, expected to become the leading company in the sec-
tor.37 In line with this orientation, an enquiry was carried out in 1979 con-
cerning some aspects of the construction of a liquefied natural gas termi-
nal in the Sermin area.38 Three years later, in 1982, a liquefied petroleum
gas and carbon dioxide filling station began operating in Sermin’s new in-
dustrial facilities of the company Istrabenz, and gas sales doubled during
the first year. Until 1985, the construction of a thermal power plant and
the arrangement of an industrial zone remained among the priority in-
vestments.39 The entire area was expected to cover 4,572 ha of land, with
36 PAK, 728, Danilo Petrinja, t. e. 24. 1, ‘Študija povezave z naftovodom in produk-
tovodoma luke Koper in Iplasa Koper z rafinerijo Aquila pri Trstu, Naročnik Luka
Koper, Koper in Iplas Koper’, dated Ljubljana, December 1978.
37 PAK, 776, Skupnost obalnih občin Koper, t. e. 88, ‘SRS Slovenija, Skupščina obalne
skupnosti Koper, Analiza možnosti obale za obdobje 1981–1985’, dated Koper,
June 1979, 16–17.
38 See: Prijon 1979.
39 Istrabenz plini 2019.
147
was expected to be 5.0 km on the map, and 5.5 km along the terrain, 3.53
km of which was on the Yugoslav side and 1.97 km on the Italian side.36
The document ‘Concept and Strategy of Coastal Development to 1985’
presented a new concept for the long-term economic development of the
coastal region and, again, the development of the energy-industrial zone
with the chemical industry was pivotal. In accordance with the guide-
lines of the Slovenian economic strategy, or the so-called ‘Programme
of activities for the development of the concept of oil and gas economy’,
which was adopted in Slovenia in 1978, the long-term development plan
in Koper aimed at the expansion of the petrochemical and energy-re-
lated industries. At the municipal and coastal level, this perspective be-
gan to consider the establishment of a Koper Energy and Industrial Zone
Business Community, which would focus its activities on the construc-
tion of a liquefied natural gas terminal and its connection to the main
gas pipeline in the medium term. The terminal was supposed to pro-
vide the necessary additional quantities of gas for the implementation
of Slovenia’s gasification programme, and was also expected to benefit
the transit of gas to Croatia. Afterwards, the construction of propylene
chemistry facilities and the construction of terminals for petrochemical
products would follow. Together with the liquefied gas terminal, a propyl-
ene terminal was to be built, in order to connect the propylene pipeline
with the Iplas plants, expected to become the leading company in the sec-
tor.37 In line with this orientation, an enquiry was carried out in 1979 con-
cerning some aspects of the construction of a liquefied natural gas termi-
nal in the Sermin area.38 Three years later, in 1982, a liquefied petroleum
gas and carbon dioxide filling station began operating in Sermin’s new in-
dustrial facilities of the company Istrabenz, and gas sales doubled during
the first year. Until 1985, the construction of a thermal power plant and
the arrangement of an industrial zone remained among the priority in-
vestments.39 The entire area was expected to cover 4,572 ha of land, with
36 PAK, 728, Danilo Petrinja, t. e. 24. 1, ‘Študija povezave z naftovodom in produk-
tovodoma luke Koper in Iplasa Koper z rafinerijo Aquila pri Trstu, Naročnik Luka
Koper, Koper in Iplas Koper’, dated Ljubljana, December 1978.
37 PAK, 776, Skupnost obalnih občin Koper, t. e. 88, ‘SRS Slovenija, Skupščina obalne
skupnosti Koper, Analiza možnosti obale za obdobje 1981–1985’, dated Koper,
June 1979, 16–17.
38 See: Prijon 1979.
39 Istrabenz plini 2019.
147
