We all know today that the industrial world's dependence on a steady supply of crude oil is almost pathetically strong. I recently heard somewhere that some 3 million barrels per hour are consumed worldwide, which equals about 480 million litres or 125 million gallons. Per hour... Just imagine a figure like 130,000 liters or 35,000 gallons per second...

This oil depot seems to originate from around 1920 or so were large tanks were made by riveting. Strategically located by the shore just at the entrance to Stockholm, it was probably large at that time. Back in these days, most of the oil came by small tanker ships, mainly from the US, which back then produced more than 50% of the world's oil.

The fate of this depot is to find in the interesting development of large oil tankers. As late as the early 1950s, a typical tanker was in the size of 10-20,000 DWT, whereas today's giant tankers can be as large as 500,000 DWT or even more. As the oil consumption soared in period after WWII, and consumption went up by some 6x in thirty years, this unit simply became too small and was too far in into the narrow waters of Stockholm. Given the size and density of the vegetation, it seems like time ended here some thirty years ago.

Up here in the Nordic in November, the last hour just before the sun sets, some really fascinating colors can be seen if the conditions are right. There is a timeframe of about fifteen minutes where the colors are almost surreal
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