In search of Finnberget’s oil caverns (oljabergrummen)

 
Here’s another panorama

From under the bridge, I walked along the pipeline in the direction of the tunnel’s main entrance.

 

Incidentally, the tripod caused my camwhoring to flourish by over 9000%

I love the hint of pink you see in the sky.

 

 

I was afraid to continue further down the pipeline, because they headed towards a much larger building that seemed very much occupied. This actually turned out to be my shortest trip so far, and is only two pages long!

The rising sun makes everything more delicious

 

The point here is to show the time and the kind of light you can expect with it.

On the way home you pass Finnbergstunneln, and I had the forsight to snap this photo as I walked by. I’ve noticed this third tunnel bore for a long time, but only now realized it might be connected to the storage system in some way.

I started scouring google for any more information about the oljabergrummen and to see if I could find a better map, because I wanted to see if this tunnel might be a back entrance. Googling the name on it wasn’t really helpful. In photoshop I cut out the tunnel map from the door and overlaid it onto an aeriel photo, trying my best to line up the entrances.

It seemed promising that the closed orange part could be at this third tunnel bore, but after further research I determined that not to be the case. In a pdf from Nacka kommun on their future plans for Kvarnholmen (bulldoze everything), they had a map of predicted traffic flows.

IThey happened to draw in the tunnel I was curious about, and you can see it merely connects to this building with the same “operan and dramaten” logo on its façade:

I guess this used to be a coffee bean factory before being sold to a theatre company, literally “opera and drama”. In the same pdf, they had an aside about Kvarnholmen’s oil history and a small diagram of oil properties in the area. They don’t show any of the tunnels, but they do show the tanks and there are 6 of them which match the 6 from the map.

This is the best I’ve come up with:

I would very much love to take a tour inside their someday, but back to reality now. You can see the retirement castle in the background.

Taking pictures directly into the sun yields better results than one might think.

 

The end!