Troll A Platform: The Heaviest Structure Ever Moved
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Not to be confused with Troll B Platform. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, AND THE NORWEGIANS WON'T LET US FORGET IT.
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"you've probs never heard of it" Me who lives in Norway and been on it on a school trip...
What kind of a school did you go to?
@@limenoodle1650 Most likely a school that teaches how to be an oil rig worker…. “School” can mean anything. I doubt it was kids taken on a field trip.
@@MegaSnow121 Probably. But I was pretty sure you had to complete the Offshore course to be allowed in Helicopters and going Offshore. I've been out there myself😁
Name checks
In my Denzel voice, “my n$&$a”!
“Should I do a video on that?”
Simon, if you have to ask that, you should already know the answer is yes.
As it is with your other channels: If you make it, we will watch!
Yes!
How many channels does he have at this point?
@@sjoroverpirat 2,377 at last count
Robert Stevens lol got here first 🤣😉
@@nunyobidniz 2,389 since last Tuesday
*Looks at title*
"Troll A Platform"
*Me*
"Isn't that what most of us do on here? 😅"
I legitly thought the same
Twitter is the unfortunate platform
You beat me to it by a few days. My version was going to be:
*looks at title*
"OK, Simon has given us our marching orders. Keyboards at the ready, troops!"
"Hey Simon... Which platform you want we should troll? Facebook or RUclips?"
Top shelf, mate.
I grew up hearing about this platform a lot. My uncle was the project supervisor for the towing operation, and my father supervised the topside of the briefly mentioned Sleipner A platform and was involved with the investigation of the sinking of the legs. The problem with the legs wasn't that the walls were made too thin, it was that the rebar wasn't extended far enough into the junctions between the walls of the water cells at the bottom of the legs. The Finite Element Model used to calculate the necessary amount of rebar had not used a high enough element resolution where the cell walls joined together.
The most funny thing about the Sleipner A debacle was the reaction of the customer oil company when they learned their engineering contractor had lost half the platform: "Can you build another set of legs in time to be finished before the production deadline?" They found the error, corrected it, and had the legs ready in time. The remains of the first set of legs for Sleipner A still lie at the bottom of the Gandsfjord, forming a sort of reef.
Thats pretty cool thanks for the info
Do the James Webb Telescope - while not being that massive in size to objects on the ground, the science and engineering behind it are way more advanced than almost anything that has been put into space once it's launched. I'm aware the Hubble has been in service for years but the work to create this thing has been massive!
TJ Anderson JWST is supposed to be launched in October 2021 now. I’ll believe it when I see it. lol
@TJ Anderson Normally 31 oktober 2021. NASA started the project in 1996 and I'm not sure but the first planned launch date was early 2000. I'm following this project for a long time now and I Can't wait for the first results.
Also noteworthy that it's budget has now exceeded 17 billion dollars.
Why? Telescopes are boring
TJ Anderson cant see anything with that telescope. Its not a visual telescope like Hubble. Its boring pile of jobs welfare program for expensive geeks.
Can we get a Megaproject video on The Hubble Space Telescope 🔭
Or the new James Webb Space Telescope
your wish has been granted. check back next monday.
@@megaprojects9649 Nice
@@megaprojects9649 nice
@@megaprojects9649 "just" create a new channel all about space missions. I know Simon finds them interesting, and there are literally thousands to choose from, but many or most of them would probably not qualify as a megaproject
Malbork Castle, The largest in the world located in Poland.
There is many bigger castles, but this is the biggest in the world(that is localized in poland) /s
Fun fact, my family made and owns a castle its still owned by my family but very distant now
@osamabinsmokin no. I believe you are doubting me. Which you can. But its true.
@@kristofferv so basically it's not the largest castle in the world
@@Robbo-mx8nn never said it was :)
My Grandpa worked for Phillips 66 out of Stavanger, Norway as an electrical engineer in the 1970s.
Also if you remember Epcot Norway’s Maelstrom they had a model platform.
Saw "Troll A Platform" thought it was going to be about rickrolling the whole of Instagram.
Yeah and it would have been awesome!
fascinating eggskull
A platform for trolls: 4chan.
I saw the same so tried doing what it said ------ now i"ve got 70 oil workers sending death threats ------ lol
same!
"Should I do a video on-"
"Yes."
I grew up nearby the fjord it was assembled and I remember going out by boat with my class to inspect the Troll when I was maybe 7 y.o. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, but I just realized I was at the very center of a great human achievement! Thank you for this video, it hit me right in the feels
The Snowy Hydro scheme in Australia took 100k workers 25 years to build, costing over $7B and set many world records. Heck, it covers about 5,500 square km!
Not to mention changing the entire immigration policy of the country for the better. It is about to receive a major upgrade and has been dubbed Snowy 2.0
Typical Norwegian trolling, always goes unnoticed.
People noticed it, sometime in the 9th century, but yeah, not much since
@tubagoo dom ruclips.net/video/Bmc9NFfhx74/видео.html
Maybe because it has become a bit normal with mega projects. One thing who is actually a bit funny, but not funny in another way is one of the concrete chassis for the gas platform Sleipner A that they made a mistake with, and sank about 25 years ago, a very expensive mistake. www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/sleipner.html
You could say that Trolling in the Scandinavia is older than Norway itself.
Yeh being half Norge/Norwegian myself, I have two relatives that works for the related company, but not on the platform(s).
Megaproject idea: The Simon Whistler Empire.
New Name Stop this.
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 No! New Name START THIS!
We must have one of his channel collection and how he can keep his head straight and play all of them!
Hardest working man on youtube!
Knowledge has many aspects some considered annatural.
I worked in the Ekofisk field in 1977 and 78. Thanks for covering this one. A lot of technology has come out of the North Sea oilfields. Its changed the offshore industry world wide.
_"Troll, Eh?"_
low budget canadian horror film
Spooky stuff there, bud
Watch "Trolljegeren", Norwegian horror movie! :-)
I've been on Troll A a few times. Also live pretty close to where it was built.
I keep hearing trollAY whenever Simon says the name lol.
The pirate kind of trolls?
@@lilypower
Ok
That'd be Trollarr :P .
The Troll project was, IMHO, the first and best documentary on TV decades ago and led the “Mega Structure” documentary surge. Your few minutes doesn’t really it justice because the 10 or so tug boats that moved the structure through the fjords of Norway was truly awe inspiring. Well done
Mega project suggestion:
The incredible construction of the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and Trans Alaska Pipeline in the 1970’s. It was the largest construction project in the world for several years. Total cost was over $15 Billion in the Mid-70’s.
Hey, could you do one on the forth road and rail bridges please? They are three bridges close together and are great examples of three different types of bridges from three different ages
Fun fact: The at the time largest object to be moved, passed over the place where the longest sub sea road tunnel later was constructed.
The Troll platform was built in Stavanger and Vats in Rogaland county. Another record breaking projects in the same county is the Ryfast tunnel -longest and deepest road tunnel, and the even longer and deeper tunnel, Rogfast, 27km, 392m deep which is currently under construction.
You should do a video on the Grand Coulee Dam and its encompassing Columbia Basin Project. The dam is the largest power station in the United States by nameplate-capacity, and the project as a whole is the largest water reclamation project in the US, irrigating 4500 square kilometers of the eastern Washington desert. Super interesting!
Megaprojects suggestion: The overseas highway in the Florida Keys.
Being Floridian and having driven to Key West, I totally support this. It, and the rail bridge before it, were truly mega projects.
This is a great idea!!
And the railway bridge too!!
@@christalbot210 I live in Michigan and driving the overseas highway someday is on my "bucket list." My cousin drove the overseas highway on a motorcycle ten years ago and I'd like to see it someday, too.
@@affinityforanime One word of warning: it takes about half-a-day to make the entire trip from Miami to Key West. It's often a two-lane road and often only 35 mph on the islands themselves. Still, it's a cool trip; especially on the seven-mile bridge.
@drew pedersen You're right! >_< I guess when you live close to something that's nonetheless spectacular you kinda forget how special it is.
As a roughneck I can assure you that everything seems small compared to this thing.
At around the same time the Hibernia GBS Oil Platform was being built in a similar fashion in Canada to extract oil off the Grand Banks. Built to sit in 80 meters of water and to survive 100 ft waves and iceberg strikes. As they were preparing the drilling area, the Ocean Ranger Platform was caught in heavy seas and capsized killing all on board. Interesting how the stories overlap
Regarding the Sleipner A collapse, from Wikipedia
>After the accident, the project leaders from Norwegian Contractors were brought before the Statoil board, and were expecting severe repercussions. But the director instead asked the famous question "Can you make a new one before schedule?"[citation needed] to which the contractors replied "Yes we can". The new hull was completed before schedule.
Simply amazing! So much better watching your videos than those overly dramatized things that they used to do on Discovery Channel. . . with their artificial time crises and rehashes after every commercial. Thank you for all of your “high bandwidth” presentations.
The damn rehashes! Those must have been 25% of the show.
“Thicker at the bottom. Thinner in the middle, and larger again at the top.” - Simon Whistler when asked almost ANY question.
I grew up watching a documentary about this gas platform and it made me the odd nerdy kid... The fact that humans made it, transported it, and installed it boggles my mind. Curious how they will decommission it at end of life.
What about some big structures/projects we often forget about - 747, A380, the Titanic, modern day cruise ships/planes?
...some super structures we aren't 100% sure about - like the Anicent Wonders of the World, Ziggurat of Ur?
A Megaproject on the Panama Canal would be interesting.
Pretty sure he's already done it
He hasn’t done a Megaprojects on it, but there was a Geographics. Not that I think doing something on one channel means you can’t do it in another. But if you wanted to check that one out:
ruclips.net/video/HY8QdxWRCwU/видео.html
Having been watching a ton of Business Blaze recently, coming here and listening to Simon Troll-A people for 12 minutes adds to the experience.
On October 2. 2006 Katie Melua held a concert on Troll A, 303 meters under the sea surface. That's still the standing world record for deepest underwater concert, I believe.
If you're interested in doing another video on an oil rig, a good one would be the Hibernia Gravity Base Structure off the coast of Newfoundland. It is (or at least was) the heaviest oil platform ever built. The Hibernia oil field is also the site of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, a rig that was drilling an exploration well on that oil field when a storm on February 15th, 1982 caused it to sink, killing all 84 on board.
Troll A
My head: *"trolley"*
Troll lay
@@7-ten par lay
youtube subtitles agree with you haha
My cynical mind: Yes Simon, but what's so interesting about a SHOPPING CART? Oh, not that "trolley" and not even any kind of trolley..... well shoot.
Tokyo : Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel,
Yes! This one should be amazing....
Yeah, that would be interesting.
Please yes!!
Yes!!
It looks epic.
PBS made a documentary about this mega project a few years after it was built. This only scratched the surface.
Great video. I honestly wish you would do Piper Alpha, at the time the world’s largest offshore platform, and which, of course, became the world’s largest offshore oil catastrophe. I don’t know if it’s still true but I believe for years it was the largest insurance casualty in history.
This was easily one of your most compelling videos! Thanks again!
"troll a platform" - huh? how do i troll a platform? its an inanimate object...
you really got me confused with the title^^
Happalula Just do a little dance and say “nyah nyah you cant do that 😝”
Happalula Exactly. I needed my caffeine first.
Kinda expected Rick Astley to make an appearence!....
I live in Norway and remember seeing this on tv. Was definitely big. Thanks Simon!! 😇
At 9:10 "The gas passes through the pipes at almost 3,000 kilometres an hour".
WHAT?! Really?! That is 1800 miles per hour, almost three times the speed of sound! Holy cow!
Can that number be correct? Wouldn't that lead to extreme problems of heating through friction?
@@haystackhider7158 There's a hell of a difference between detcord and natural gas in a pipeline: one you want to burn and go quick, the other hopefully not!
@@charlesshreeve319 it’s under the ocean. Can’t really ask for better cooling then that.
Megaprojects suggestion: Pioneering Spirit, heavy lift ship.
Could you do one on the decommissioning of Sellafield? They are 20 years into a 100 year project - I think that classes as mega! I think whilst they're only part way through it should be possible to look at what needed to be done for each plant, what they have accomplished so far and what they still have to do.
I think the Arecibo Observatory would be a cool megaprojects.
This was one of my favorites, thank you for the oodles of great content Simon, you da man! 👍💪
Awesome to see this covered. There’re so many awesome engineering feats in the offshore industry and they often go unnoticed.
How about the Hubble telescope mirror scratch and in space repair.
It wasn’t a ‘scratch’ that caused the issue - Ultimately the problem was traced to miscalibrated equipment during the mirror's manufacture
Mega Project idea: ITER the experimental fusion reactor in southern Franch
For sure, how close to finish tho?
@@thomaskosko1 best case? 2024
Or the MAST Upgrade in the UK
Thank you for the content. Have learned so much from your various channels. Cheers
I’m so happy you did this one! I was hoping to see it here. I’ve never forgotten learning about it as a kid.
Suggestion : AC75.
Coolest sail boat of the last decade, plus it have some never seen hydrofoil technology.
PLEASE do a video on the Petronas Towers! Been suggesting it for a while, and you referenced them here so I know you know they exist! Lol. But really, pretty interesting story behind their construction, I think it would make a good video.
Been twice
Its basically just a bigger platform but built out of cardboard and crap. Typical russian quality. Fueled by vodka with 25% mortality rate (Oh yes that is how many russian men die by alcohol). I sound rude and disrespectful? I don't care, go visit russia yourself. It's a shithole most of the parts.
Cool, I suggested this project. Thx as always Simon!
Do you want to do something about the largest LPG structure in the world? It's a ship that cannot move by itself and had to be towed around the world. It's absolutely amazing. Now in Australia, it's called Prelude. It needs an entire documentary to explain its extreme size and the tech behind it.
Simon you need to do a video on the VW Beetle 🐞
The original of course. Lets just ignore the "new" one and pretend it didnt happen.
Thank you Simon! Thank you for all you do
I have worked for 2 years on the Gullfaks A plattform. It's only about 220m tall, but i promise you It moves quite a bit in the winter storms aswell!
Great video. These things are insane, and especially how the move it.
One thing I'd love to see you cover the Sydney Harbour Bridge given the size and time it was built there were a lot of challenges!
I have heard of this when Richard Hammond presented it on his Engineering Connections several years ago. Please do the Russian platform!! :-)
Hey, can you do the Förderbrücke F60? It is used in coal mining and it's the largest vehicle ever built! Got to visit two of them this summer, one of them still in operation, and the dimensions are just mind-boggling.
You did Troll A!!!! Sweet! I've been a fan of this structure for many years and it fits in well with this channel Simon!
Thank you for all the awesome content! I have a suggestion: The development and creation of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station particularly talking about the undertaking to launch different vehicles and missions, rebuilds, overhauls, and where rocket fuels and propellants are stored prior to launches.
Thanks again!!
I'd love to see a video on the tide control mechanism they've installed around Venice
How bout the snowy river hydro scheme in Australia.
What a huge and important undertaking, and employed so many people settled here post war!
I remember watching a documentary about the Troll platform on the Discovery channel in the late 90s. Thanks for the memory!
Megaproject Suggestion:
Parliament House in Bucharest, Romania. The second biggest administrative building in the world (after the Pentagon) and the heaviest building in the world. It have 8 under levels, a nuclear bunker, catacombs so big that the Top Gear had filmed cars there racing there, and its made nearly in totality with material from the country.
Idea; The Westgate Bridge/Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia.
And tie in the fact that it collapsed in the 70's and the subsequent toxic soil controversy it's dragged up
Finn Erben I live in Melbourne and I’ve not heard of this yet. 😅 Have we had any Australian Megaprojects to date?
@@--enyo-- I dont honestly know. but i know the bridge collapsed in 1970, and the tunnel project is it hot water over dumping contaminated soil.
We've had a Geographics about Uluru but i think thats it?
I'm 10 mins from the Westgate, there's actually a memorial on the Yarraville side remembering the 35 people who died in the collapse. Interesting story but not sure if it's truly a megaproject.
@@bencampbell1675 What about a Geographic? It could also tie in the tragedy of Darcy being thrown from it.
@@MoxleyFight yeah that would be a good video to see :)
Do a video on LIGO!
Thank you for making a video on my suggestion! Loved it and shared it :D
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But you should have included the concert held by Katie Malue in the bottom om the legs. Worlds deepest concert infact.
Yes I heard of it. Back in 2002 Nova did a segment on the making of the Troll platform. I learn a lot from PBS: Nova, Frontline, Nature.
G'day Simon, I would like to see a Megaproject's video on the Snowy Mountains Scheme which is the Largest Hydro-Electric Scheme in Australia.
I think from memory it was constructed in the early 1960's & I hope you would find it interesting enough to cover on your channel.
Anyway besides that Mate it's something from Down-Under' what do you recon Mate ?
I think by many measures it is the biggest in the world. It would be a great megaprojects video.
@@kpark1425 Thanks' Mate, I hope he will do a video on it.
I’d really like to see this.
@@--enyo-- Thanks' Liliana finger's crossed, I would love to know more & not being biased an Aussie Megaproject would be Spot-On.
Steve.
“Fjord!!!” -Pinky
This was a subject for this channels namesake on the Discovery Channel MANY years ago, was amazing to see it's construction and move out to see.
Do the " Big Hill" spiral Tunnel in Golden BC, Canada. In the kicking Horse Pass. 2 helicoidal or spiral tunnels dug into a mountain for the trains. Super cool!
Now I know where RealLifeLore got the idea from
Megaprojects: Simon's Beard
I remember watching a show about this back in the 90's, back when Discovery and TLC did actual, cool shows. I was blown away then and I'm still blown away 20-something years later. Time to check this Berkut thing.
Yeah, I remember watching that too. I found it amazing that they took the elevator to the bottom and all that ocean was above their heads and they stood with no equipment on.
Just fascinating , simple as that. Love it , keep it going.
great info
I love that im constantly running into your comments on the most random videos. Also, LMT review when???
Lmao, Gunsngear is a man of culture I see. Love your content bruh
@Gopnik Boris Imposter.
Where’s my Blaze, Simon?!?!
Allegedly
Hopefully gone
^ What? 😮 B-blaze is great. 😳👍
Ilkka Rautio I liked old Business Blaze where it was more a story about business stuff. The new ones where it’s like a TopTenz list just don’t hold my attention. It’s just a personal preference thing, and I’m sure the minority opinion.
As for the Troll field and the engineering obstacles to tap it, the American oil operators in the North Sea compared it to the Apollo program, a bit of an exaggeration but it was still considered almost impossible at the time when the field was discovered
Years ago on Christmas Eve the Discovery Channel aired a program about Troll, I remember watching it with my father, now deceased. I found that program on RUclips a while ago and still watch it sometimes always thinking about my father.
There was a an hour documentary by National Geographic on this decades ago.
I saw that documentary when it first came out. Over the years since I have occasionally looked for it on the net and finally found it and grabbed a copy last year. Don't remember where I found it, but it's out there if anyone wants to search for it.
Ya, I remember seeing it years ago.
Fun fact: im on this Platform atm :)
Simon, some of us have built offshore oil and gas platforms. Viewers like me. And until you climb onto one, you cannot comprehend the massive size of these things.
And yes, they are very dangerous places to work. One of my childhood buddies was killed while working as an underwater welder on a platform in Indonesia.
RIP- Richard Armstrong
A Grizzly Forever 🐻
Troll A: battered by frigid waves, anchored in the deep dark of the abyss
Danny: same, bruh
AN-2, the most produced plane of all time. The Soviet flying tractor.
tanks608 the AN-2 only had about 18,000+ known to have been made. For reference the Messerschmitt Bf.-109 had a known production run of 34,852 planes. For civilian aircraft the Cessna 172, as of 2015, as had 44,000+ made. The Cessna even has a longer time in production starting in 1956 to the present or 64 years. The AN-2 was similarly long in production starting in 1946 and ending production as AN-2s in 2001, still 55 years considering the numbers produced that ain’t bad.
Dc-3!!
Waiting for the trolls in the comments
Thank you for another interesting video.
Funfact: On october 3. 2006, the artist Katie Melua actually held a concert in the base of the platform, 303 meters below the sea surface.
As always, great video Simon! For a possible future video, perhaps the "ocean clean-up" project. The project that aims to clean 50% of the plastic debris in the Pacific ocean within the next 5 years.
Real life lore anyone???
Please do a Megaprojects on the building of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.
If we are on the subject of offshore and oil: Pioneering Spirit, the largest offshore construction vessel in the world, or the newly build Sleipnir, the most powerfull crane vessel in the world. Additionally you can talk about Jahre Viking/Knock Knevis, the longest oil tanker ever build.
Megaprojects idea - draglines or bucket wheel excavators.
I work on a Marion 8750 and it's insane how one man can move nearly 200k cubic yards of dirt every day.
Should've mentioned how it was named after Queen Sonja of Norway.
Lol what?
Oh, a video about something norwegian! *happy norwegian noises*
Anything Scandinavian is awesome!
@@anarchyantz1564 hmmm does Nordic count?..... As Finn I propose.... Onkalo at Olkiluoto. Us Finns little nuclear hidey hole. Mostly colossal for it's age span as project. Started building it started in 2004 and final completing building stages should take place around 2120, when the repository will have it's final storage canisters of fuel rods placed and it will be started to be back filled and sealed with concrete casting. Also it is supposed to last.... ohhhh some tens of thousands of years as a structure.
Also as just dig it is pretty big. 500 meters underground.
Nice one. Never been in Troll A, but have worked on the Troll field for the last 8 years.
Typically excellent video - thanks Simon, cheers.