Oljeproduktion på Gotland, Industrial heritage site in northern Gotland, Sweden
Oljeproduktion pa Gotland is a preserved oil extraction facility featuring drilling equipment, storage tanks, and pumping systems from 1970s operations. The site displays the original infrastructure with main pumps and tanks still standing as they functioned during active production.
Oil extraction operations began in 1974 and continued until 1993, with several hundred drilling operations carried out across the island during this period. This phase represented a significant attempt to diversify Sweden's energy supply.
The Risung field near Rute yielded about 30,000 cubic metres, a third of all oil extracted on Gotland. The pump and tanks remain in place, and the site is the only fully preserved oil extraction facility in Sweden, now a listed building.
The preserved pump and tanks of the Risung field stand near Rute in northern Gotland, where drilling reached depths of 200–350 metres. The site is an open-air industrial remnant with no visitor facilities, so plan for uneven ground and changeable Baltic weather.
Only about 20 of the 323 wells drilled on Gotland ever produced oil, and the Risung field near Rute alone yielded around 30,000 m³, a third of the island's total. Its pump and tanks remain in place, the only fully preserved oil extraction plant in Sweden and now a listed building.
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