1500 excess gas tanks

Over the next years, more than 1500 oil-, gas- and acid tanks will be removed from the Norwegian shelf. For the oil industry, this represents a major waste problem. The present solution from the oil industry is to melt the tanks down, but this would represent a waste of resources and a financial loss.

Re-used as under-water mobile rooms

The designer Grethe Løland’s suggestion to this problem is to use the tanks as they are: Connect them together and create mobile rooms under the sea. Rather than seeing a limited number of plants and fish in small land-based aquariums, visitors
would experience the ocean itself, surrounded by unlimited plant- and fish-life!

The Ocean is a hidden and secret waste-disposal site, and certainly not unaffected by pollution. Tank Park can therefore contribute to a wider focus on the ocean environment. At the same time Tank Park will encourage plant and animal life because the exterior of the tanks will function as growth surfaces for plants, which again attracts fish etc.

Exhibited in DogA

In DogA, the Norwegian Centre of Design and Architecture, Era 05 delegates will be able to view Grethe Lølands proposal to the re-use of gas tanks on Friday September 23, 2005 from 9 am – 1030.