Study of the establishment and development of oil and gas pipelines in Halychyna in the late XIX-early XX century in the context of forming industrial tourism programs

Abstract

The development of a new for Ukraine type of tourism – the industrial tourism requires complex researches on the methodology of resource potential assessment, consideration of the safety aspects of such tourist activity type. Equally important is the informative content of tourist programs, which requires detailed historical discoveries and filling with a factographic base of tourist objects of industrial tourism. Their attractiveness is forming in this way, which affects the quality of tourist programs in general This problematics is up-to-date for all areas of industrial tourism, and oil and gas pipeline objects are not the exception. The article researches the history of oil and gas pipelines in Halychyna in the late XIX – early XX century. The history of oil transportation in Halychyna begins with the oil pipeline that connected the oil field in Sloboda Runhurska with the Pechenizhyn railway station, which was built in 1886. In the year 1932, in Halychyna functioned 7 oil-producing enterprises (10% of the total number), which transported raw materials, having their own pipelines. At the end of the 1930s, the number of oil enterprises almost doubled, 9 companies transported raw materials and oil products. The first gas pipeline in Halychyna with a 0.7 km length was built in 1912 in Boryslav. The same year, two gas pipelines (about of 12 km each) connected Boryslav with Drohobych. By the end of the 1920s, about 300 km of gas pipelines were already operating in Halychyna. In Boryslavsko-Drohobytskyi district, gas pipelines were built before the war, and in Yaselskyi district, starting from the year 1919. The increase in natural gas production in Halychyna allowed to increase the gasification networks of human settlements and enterprises. In the year 1933, 97664 thousands m3 of gas were produced in Yaselskyi mining district, 319950 thousands m3 of gas were produced in Drohobytskyi mining district and 44597 in Stanislavivskyi mining district, the owners and transporters of which were 15 companies. Thus, during 1912-1938, 11 gas pipelines with diameters of 80-225 mm and a total length of 293.7 km were built in Halychyna. Information about the history of establishment and development of oil and gas pipelines in Halychyna in the late XIX-early XX century is an important factographic source for understanding the evolution of the oil and gas transport system of Ukraine and the basis for the formation of tourist programs of industrial tourism at the objects of the oil and gas complex

Keywords

• attractiveness of tourist objects
• history of the oil and gas industry
• oil pipelines
• gas pipelines
• tourist programs