Just so everyone's clear on big American units: Distance - football field Bigger distance - moon and back Weight - Nimitz class aircraft carrier Volume - Epcot center
boring fact: everything outside the living quarter is considered an explosive hazardes zone (due to it being a gas platform) so no one is allowed to bring phones or even a lighter outside. So no, it would never happen
I work on Troll A an have taken that elevator many times. Its small noisy and boring. Sadly no video allowed. Ps. Its takes just under 8 minute's and only one leg you can go all the way down in;)
the last Battleships built by the U.S Navy was the Iowa class battleships which were built in the 40's and had a surprisingly very long career, the last being retired at least a decade ago. "Battleship" and "Warship" are not interchangeable terms. "Warship" is everyting with a gun built for war and "Battleship" is, well, just look up "Yamato class" or "Iowa class" also only 10 Nimitz class aircraft carriers were built and are still in active service and the Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers will continue to join the fleet in the next decade or two
Still nothing compared to Poland, where the entire country ánd its inhabitants moved an astonishingly 400 kilometers to the west after the second World War.
Not the entire country, only the areas called kresy wschodnie. The people from the east moved to the west, that's all. Edit: The kresy people now inhabit the voivodeships of lubuskie, zachodniopomorskie, dolnośląskie and warmińsko-mazurskie
@@tomasvrana6765 The people as wel. Hundreds of thousands of poles from the eastern half were relocated to the new western territories, whereas the former Prussian population were all relocated to Germany.
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear irv
I work for a company called Continental Drifters, LLC. We move cities, countries, and yes even the big rocks. We currently can only move a 2.5 CM per year but we guarantee we move anything, eventually. Wanna live in the Southern Hemisphere, we can get you there, eventually.
The impressive part for me is that not only did someone think that this was a good idea, they managed to convince a whole lot of others that it would work. And then it did!
It's been noted that some countries are better at long-term planning than others. Norway actually has a Sovereign Wealth Fund, worth over USD 2 trillion, which is where the government is actively investing money, globally, rather than running a deficit and owing money. The taxes are high in Norway but higher education is paid for by taxes, all the way to PhD-level (assuming you can pass the tests and show that you have the proficiency to go that far) and medical treatment is paid for by taxes. The two biggest things which hold other countries down are: * the inability of talented-but-poor people to get the education which might enable to them to make a big contributions * medical care costs shortening lives and putting people into bankruptcy Norway has beaten both of these things. They are VERY good at long-term, strategic thinking and planning.
I was thinking the same thing. 8 minute video with tons of research wasted on the strange comparisons to random things and places, and no actual visuals of the subject.
Something isn't right about the speed of the gas/oil through the undersea pipeline. 80km in 84s works out to 3400km/hr. The flow rate I can find for gas/oil is measured in m/s, topping out at 100 ish km/h... 80km in 84mins maybe?
@@octoriagaming1277 ummm no. It was nationally hated, and the people of Paris and prominent national magazines called it an eyesore, and demanded it be taken down. It only remained because the military used it to intercept radio communications, greatly helping the French during the world war 1 march on Paris by the Germans.
@@DenThaas The gas is transported to shore at nearly 2000 mph, or 80 km in 84 seconds, according to Richard Hammond`s video: *"Super Rigs: Troll Offshore Natural Gas Platform"* Also, another fun-fact, the highspeed-fuzes for use (or used) in offshore well-operations to detonate small explosives....burns at 6400 m/s (!) (primacord)
"Heavier than 7 Nimitz class aircraft carriers" Americans will use anything as a unit of measurement besides the metric system and it's funny coming from an American
@@sniccups6794 I think common vehicles work better though. Surprisingly, the average American doesn't have a mental grasp on the size and weight of Nimitz class aircraft carriers. But I do like it when pop-sci measures in giraffes.
You should do one about the Sleipner A platform move as well! Partway through the move, the concrete in one of the cell walls in the legs failed, and the pumps got overloaded, so the platform started sinking into the fjord at 1m/minute. When the platform hit the ocean floor it triggered a magnitude 3.0 earthquake They had the entire thing fixed up in less than a week, truly an engineering masterpiece
My dad actually worked on it while it was being towed. He said it was the craziest thing he had ever seen. He was there as a welder working for a ship repair company from Port Arthur, TX. Had to be flowed in to mainland and they were on stand-by following the rig till they got there then they finished up a few things need to get done to be operational. He was gone for a couple months because it was a long trip getting that thing over there and they couldn't travel fast.
You should have explained why they decided to build the entire thing on land first, and whether that experiment was successful or not in terms of subsequent platforms also being built this way.
I remember watching this on the news. It was not as big of a deal here in the U.S . But it was still a news worthy thing that came on enough that over 20 years later i still remember the event. Thanks for the good memories.
*Did you know ?* The world's largest pyramid isn't in Egypt. It's hidden under a hill in the nearby town of Pueblo in Mexico & known as "the Great Pyramid of Cholula". It is four times larger than Giza’s, and nearly twice the volume. The construction started around 200 BC
Have you ever seen the Gravity Base Structure for the Hibernia platform (& oil field of the same name)? It was designed to cope with the issue of unhooking rigs and moving them in order to avoid iceberg collisions. It dose this by being so large, heavy, & strong that they just let the bergs hit the rig & get ground into bits! It went so far over budget & became so expensive that the design was never repeated.
I love your videos, most of them are very informative imaginative and entertaining. You have a few boring ones, but overall they are amazing! Keep up the good work
@@ireplytoeverything3122 Troll A is anchored to the seabed with vacuum tanks. They are technically constructed to be able to reverse, meaning it could float back up, be towed back to shore, and dismantled back on land
Random Fact: Dolphins give each other specific names. They create them through making certain sounds to each other to represent each dolphin. -RealFacts
The gas actually uses about 1.5 hours from the platform to Kollsnes, dont know where 84 seconds came from. Source is my dad who is Technical Chief of the Troll A platform, its his job to know all these numbers and that all the techical systems on the platform works.
Completely random fact: Since the moment Pluto was discovered and until the moment when it lost its status of a planet, this celestial body has not completed a single full revolution around the Sun.
I guess that Troll-A offshore oil rig was influenced by the same construction method used in Beryl-Alpha offshore oil rig (I think it was laid down in the 70's), although the height of B-Alpha was around 128 m and that's just the legs & foundation. Troll-A was like the mega version of B-Alpha.
According to Wikipedia Beryl-Alpha was indeed the first Condeep oil rig that was built, back in 1975 - and Troll A was the last one (so far) in 1995. A total of 14 were built and I believe all of them are still in operation today. The name Condeep is referring to «concrete deep water structure». The concept was invented by the civil engineer Olav Mo. His company «Offshore Concrete» patented the concept in 1972 and then the company «Norwegian Contractors» further developed the concept from 1973. Due to being cheaper, floating rigs and underwater installations have been preferred since.
It was kinda surreal for me when you mentioned the Kollsnes refinery. It's like 10 km away from where I live and I can see the torch from my living room.
Hang on: First you said that the rig was 80KM off shore, then you said it was 200KM from the coast, I think you meant 200KM from where it was built. Also you mispoke while talking about train cars, you really gotta review these more mate.
What is fascinating to me in this video is that we don't have one picture of this thing being built or transported. Although it was big hoopla in Norway as it was built and then it's move broadcasted live. Child's drawing is all they could get... Epic!
5:49 the 84 seconds must be a mistake. According to my 3 am math, if the gas travels 80 km in lets say 80 seconds, that means it is traveling at 3600 km per hour, or just under Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound) that seems a bit excessive even for Norwegians. It is surely supposed to say 80 minutes which brings the speed down to 60 km per hour which is still wicked fast
I live in a seaside town and years ago Hundreds if massive heavy rocks that weigh about maybe 2 tonnes were delivered by cargo boats all the way from Norway. It’s amazing how though. The water here is very shallow and the boats managed to park and unload! All together there are probably almost 1000 rocks.
I was thinking the same thing and scrolling down the comments to check if I wasn’t crazy. Thats either a mistake in the video or oil somehow being pumped at Mach 3 lol
@@DanielGarrido02 This video is full of mistakes...gas traveling faster than sound, trains “obviously” carrying more than two trains, and “usually these are built on-site, or they are assembled on-site.” Whoever runs this channel was asleep the day they made this lmao
Gas* And the price is one thing, but strategic value is another. Most of europe was supplied with gas from the soviet union when the gas field was discovered, so the Norwegian government and shell had a lot of preassure from the US and Nato to develope this gas field
When he said “longer than this entire RUclips video”, i just went to check and he’s right, the elevator takes a minute longer When the workers are coming down, i bet you they will watch this video
You need to do a video on if a country has moved entirely due to invasions from an invader or invasions of the country which allowed it to change its location completely
Just so everyone's clear on big American units:
Distance - football field
Bigger distance - moon and back
Weight - Nimitz class aircraft carrier
Volume - Epcot center
I dont understand any of that
Speed = bullets per kid
@@james-uw9ug dude, chill. You spitting bullet right there XD
Don't forget to order a 1/822560000 Nimitz burger! :D
Size = Toyota Corolla
Ali Express be like:
That will be 2.50 USD shipping fees
Ok.
There will be a 250 million shipping fee
Estimated time of delivery~6 months
Naw it’s 2.50 to buy it with 5 billion shipping
What's ali express
Imagine someone watching this video in the elevator of 'Troll A'.
They would probably watch the Brilliant ad too, since they'd have nothing else to do.
boring fact: everything outside the living quarter is considered an explosive hazardes zone (due to it being a gas platform) so no one is allowed to bring phones or even a lighter outside. So no, it would never happen
I work on Troll A an have taken that elevator many times. Its small noisy and boring. Sadly no video allowed. Ps. Its takes just under 8 minute's and only one leg you can go all the way down in;)
@@NorwegianCrazyGuy How did they have a concert at the bottom then? Surely you need microphones, amps, etc.
@@mirzaahmed6589 they did continuous gas monitoring so that if a hint of gas gets detected their electricity gets shut off
Americans: The metric system is useless, I don’t understand it.
Also Americans: 14 Nimitz class battleships.
14th like
Aircraft carriers*
Could I get the conversion rate from Nimitz to football fields?
the last Battleships built by the U.S Navy was the Iowa class battleships which were built in the 40's and had a surprisingly very long career, the last being retired at least a decade ago. "Battleship" and "Warship" are not interchangeable terms. "Warship" is everyting with a gun built for war and "Battleship" is, well, just look up "Yamato class" or "Iowa class"
also only 10 Nimitz class aircraft carriers were built and are still in active service and the Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers will continue to join the fleet in the next decade or two
How much is that in miles
Finally , something that we didnt ask but was awnsered
sounds like school
Awnsered
They are "troll"ing us
@@8JFJK8 whoosh
Megaprojects (Simon Whistler) did a video on Troll A a few weeks ago, so I already knew the answer.
Still nothing compared to Poland, where the entire country ánd its inhabitants moved an astonishingly 400 kilometers to the west after the second World War.
Not the entire country, only the areas called kresy wschodnie. The people from the east moved to the west, that's all.
Edit: The kresy people now inhabit the voivodeships of lubuskie, zachodniopomorskie, dolnośląskie and warmińsko-mazurskie
Not people, just country ;)
@@tomasvrana6765 The people as wel.
Hundreds of thousands of poles from the eastern half were relocated to the new western territories, whereas the former Prussian population were all relocated to Germany.
BAHHABABHHA
Bruh XD
I am reluctant to call that a single thing.
The “Troll Platform”
Good job Norway.
Yeah it was basically an entire troll by making it so complicated.
LMAO
Why do i see you all over youtube lmao?
Fun Fact :
All of the 10 biggest stars know To human are in Milkyway galaxy,
I have a whole video about 10 Biggest Stars and info about them.
@@gunjanshah13 all of the stars known to humans are in the Milky Way. Stars in other galaxies are too far away to locate individually.
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Nordic countries:
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear irv
Amazon Prime has no minimum for free shipping.
@@AxxLAfriku sir, this is a wendys.
@@mirzaahmed6589 prime is still 12(?) dollars at the very minimum and that would be over the 5 billion dollar the platform costs already
@@cageybee7221 lol
Yes. Almost as insane as not using Toyota Corollas as a measuring unit.
Yup no one cares about it's weight in aircraft carriers.
Troll A weighs just under 271, '05 Toyoda Corollas :)
@@davidlewis4237 thanks but i want to see old RLL
Didn't he use meters as well? He just did that for comparison...
@@davidlewis4237 So a Corolla weighs 4428 metric tons???
Imagine after 5 years of construction and 200 km long voyage, they got trolled by the troll
Well, if you were educated. You’d know that engineers actually try to fix these problems because, well...they’re engineers.
@@Void_Wars what problem?
It’s strength, people thought it would collapse because it displaced a lot of water. But it’s surface are was made up for because of its design.
@@Void_Wars problem? :trollface:
I work for a company called Continental Drifters, LLC. We move cities, countries, and yes even the big rocks. We currently can only move a 2.5 CM per year but we guarantee we move anything, eventually. Wanna live in the Southern Hemisphere, we can get you there, eventually.
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.
Sounds like a job for me, see you at work in 100-100,000 years. (Eh I'll get there when I get there)
Oh tectonic plates has been commercialised?
Had me in the first half not gonna lie
You better give me a good pay for moving something 2.5cm per year
The impressive part for me is that not only did someone think that this was a good idea, they managed to convince a whole lot of others that it would work. And then it did!
It's been noted that some countries are better at long-term planning than others. Norway actually has a Sovereign Wealth Fund, worth over USD 2 trillion, which is where the government is actively investing money, globally, rather than running a deficit and owing money. The taxes are high in Norway but higher education is paid for by taxes, all the way to PhD-level (assuming you can pass the tests and show that you have the proficiency to go that far) and medical treatment is paid for by taxes. The two biggest things which hold other countries down are:
* the inability of talented-but-poor people to get the education which might enable to them to make a big contributions
* medical care costs shortening lives and putting people into bankruptcy
Norway has beaten both of these things. They are VERY good at long-term, strategic thinking and planning.
All of this technology, and yet we still can't move yo mama.
Bruh
gottem
Waaaaaaaaaa
Yo mama's *SO BIG...*
that even cargo boats couldn't move her.
@@TheHotBlade ok.
And no single photo of an object itself... especially when relocation of it was broadcasted on TV...
It is u can google
I was thinking the same thing. 8 minute video with tons of research wasted on the strange comparisons to random things and places, and no actual visuals of the subject.
A gas field named troll just sounds like it would explode at any given moment
Lol
agreed,, xD
a troll is an ancient human created fiction character
@@Slim9867 I was linking the name with internet troll not folklore
*IT WAS JUST A PRANK BRO*
RLL: "Trains carry a lot more cargo than just two trains worth"
Me: *Visible confusion*
Hi
Everywhere I go, I see him.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache this guy, your not funny. You’re just annoying now
@@quitbeinsilly1062 stfu
Aye
Something isn't right about the speed of the gas/oil through the undersea pipeline. 80km in 84s works out to 3400km/hr. The flow rate I can find for gas/oil is measured in m/s, topping out at 100 ish km/h...
80km in 84mins maybe?
idk but my guess is pressure, also 84 mins is soo slow? don't you think
up! Was asking myself the same question.
This raised my eyebrow too, it would be quite uncomfortable for the precious oil to be breaking the sound barrier in transit 😬
Although supersonic oil would be really cool!
Yeah I got to 34,000kph that's faster than escape velocity. Pretty sure the liquid would boil from friction 🤸
Real Life Lore: *makes a video with 'logistics' in the title*
Wendover: "You're stealing my audiance!"
No, Wendover is air logistics. this is water logistics.
@@sirBrouwer ? Wendover has submarine, aircraft carrier, and oil rig videos (and probably more that I haven’t seen)
@@trademarkedits he did diverge. But note that my reaction is about 8 months old.
Fun fact:
Did you know the the eiffel tower was actually a temporary attraction.
Yes I do, but it remained because it got popular
Last week I went up and down my my stair case 306 times equal to the Eiffel Towers stair case to the top.
@@reeceoshaney5971 why tho?
@@reeceoshaney5971 good to know lol
@@octoriagaming1277 ummm no. It was nationally hated, and the people of Paris and prominent national magazines called it an eyesore, and demanded it be taken down. It only remained because the military used it to intercept radio communications, greatly helping the French during the world war 1 march on Paris by the Germans.
A gas field named Troll, now that is just brilliant. Even better when you realize trolls are an important part of Norwegian mythology.
hi again haha
Probably made out of trolls that got exposed to the sun light lol
troll means ogar, idk how to spell it, the thing sreck is
@@ketamine-consumer5185
Ogre
They engage in a moderate amount of tomfoolery
5:59
Those guys’ houses are filling with oil
It's the troll platform
Problem, residents?
@@rndmzr153 permanent oil storage units
Gas platform*
There is no house in about a 750 meter radius IK becuase I live not to far away and I got family working there
im gonna ruin this 69 likes by liking this comment
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Engineers: "we're gonna move a million ton rig 200km offshore"
Everybody: "Theres norway that will work"
Heard the nor-way joke by every turist in Norway ever
5:58 "resources sent back 80 km away in 84 seconds" That's 1 km/s. That sounds VERY hard to believe.
we need answers
@@DenThaas The gas is transported to shore at nearly 2000 mph, or 80 km in 84 seconds, according to Richard Hammond`s video: *"Super Rigs: Troll Offshore Natural Gas Platform"* Also, another fun-fact, the highspeed-fuzes for use (or used) in offshore well-operations to detonate small explosives....burns at 6400 m/s (!) (primacord)
@@haystackhider7158 2000 mph... sounds bullshit. Hammond must be fooled.
@@equim7363 Its all real buddy. Google it. Cheers
yea ik
also 69th like
Sealand is my favorite offshore platform. We recognize its independence
"Heavier than 7 Nimitz class aircraft carriers"
Americans will use anything as a unit of measurement besides the metric system and it's funny coming from an American
It’s weird because we’re taught it in school, so why not use both? They go hand in hand.
@@sniccups6794
I think common vehicles work better though. Surprisingly, the average American doesn't have a mental grasp on the size and weight of Nimitz class aircraft carriers.
But I do like it when pop-sci measures in giraffes.
@@BonaparteBardithion personally I find “7 nimitz class carriers” easier to visualize than “350,000 Toyota corollas”🤣
@@trademarkedits
Well, when you put it that way... 😅
@@trademarkedits yeah i agree, though the easiest way to visualize this is to think about it as 72.6 quadtrillion pencils
You should do one about the Sleipner A platform move as well!
Partway through the move, the concrete in one of the cell walls in the legs failed, and the pumps got overloaded, so the platform started sinking into the fjord at 1m/minute.
When the platform hit the ocean floor it triggered a magnitude 3.0 earthquake
They had the entire thing fixed up in less than a week, truly an engineering masterpiece
The ending was like - take a brilliant course and you will know how to tow a megastructure 200km into the sea.
Me: Hi, I plan on shipping the Statue of Liberty to Alaska.
Postal Guy: That will be 0.50¢ for shipping.
Me: Ridiculous.
Half a cent?!
@@gurrrn1102 give him a full cent and say... keep the change my guy 😌
@@Shinning_Sky I’m not your guy, frieeeend!
lame
"Of course, when the neutron star began to warp space and time itself, we knew we were in trouble."
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My dad actually worked on it while it was being towed. He said it was the craziest thing he had ever seen. He was there as a welder working for a ship repair company from Port Arthur, TX. Had to be flowed in to mainland and they were on stand-by following the rig till they got there then they finished up a few things need to get done to be operational. He was gone for a couple months because it was a long trip getting that thing over there and they couldn't travel fast.
You should have explained why they decided to build the entire thing on land first, and whether that experiment was successful or not in terms of subsequent platforms also being built this way.
I remember watching this on the news. It was not as big of a deal here in the U.S . But it was still a news worthy thing that came on enough that over 20 years later i still remember the event. Thanks for the good memories.
RealLifeLore: "The Insane Logistics of Transporting the Biggest Object in History"
Me: "we talking about my mom now? not cool bro"
Oooh self burn, that's rare!
@Gabriel PLBR13 *sad happiness noises*
So that's where the biggest Troll on earth is located...
This could be a very elaborate yo mama joke
There someone already said a yo mama joke here lol
Perfect for matt colbo
@@pablocastro_ the chronic heart failure is the best one
@@msgpatient7850 yesssss
"All that being said, the Troll A platform is still not the heaviest thing moved across the earth's surface. That honor, of course, goes to yo mama."
For me the most satisfying think is that the platform was constructed and transported in the 1990's
Fantastic video! I will bow out of the race to have the top video on this topic, even though I beat you to it by a few years 😉
You deserve more subscribers.
Just watched your video - great production value for a smaller channel!
Concerning Reality commenting on a RLL video!? My worlds are colliding.
@@tjdrumman thanks! Regardless, going to keep putting out content every Monday 💪
@@jeffreysurksum3699 thank you!!
"It can make 65000 gallons of gasoline which can fulfill Norways requirements 3 times over"
Or it can keep my Bronco filled for a week
*Did you know ?*
The world's largest pyramid isn't in Egypt. It's hidden under a hill in the nearby town of Pueblo in Mexico & known as "the Great Pyramid of Cholula".
It is four times larger than Giza’s, and nearly twice the volume. The construction started around 200 BC
Have you ever seen the Gravity Base Structure for the Hibernia platform (& oil field of the same name)? It was designed to cope with the issue of unhooking rigs and moving them in order to avoid iceberg collisions. It dose this by being so large, heavy, & strong that they just let the bergs hit the rig & get ground into bits!
It went so far over budget & became so expensive that the design was never repeated.
imagine someone is literally watching this video on that elevator
No, no phones allowed outside the living quarters due to chanse of gas and spark hazzards
I very much doubt there's internet in there.
I love your videos, most of them are very informative imaginative and entertaining. You have a few boring ones, but overall they are amazing! Keep up the good work
ah yes, a question ive always wanted answered
exactly lol
Not Mines Though😞!!!!!
Who cares how they moved it, what matters is how to destroy it
@@ireplytoeverything3122 Troll A is anchored to the seabed with vacuum tanks. They are technically constructed to be able to reverse, meaning it could float back up, be towed back to shore, and dismantled back on land
I remember clearly a great Discovery Channel program on this. Extraordinary project and risky move! Ever seen the inside of those legs? Amazing.
been there. I also saw when they floated it out to location. It was epic
Random Fact:
Dolphins give each other specific names.
They create them through making certain sounds to each other to represent each dolphin.
-RealFacts
Thanks for the facts lol
Nice. Wonder if there's a dolphin named (1.73 seconds of 1853 hertz, 5.3 seconds of 6942 hertz)
Thank you for signing the comment I wasnt sure who wrote it
@@psmsedwinfran501 it's my pleasure :)
@@shakingh4nd yeah lol
The gas actually uses about 1.5 hours from the platform to Kollsnes, dont know where 84 seconds came from. Source is my dad who is Technical Chief of the Troll A platform, its his job to know all these numbers and that all the techical systems on the platform works.
I guess he meant minutes, not seconds.
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RUclips: Not my job-
@Prabath Hemachandra always has been and will be
Well not everyone comments, what you on about
For fucks sake, how many times does this have to be posted? It’s simply server lag...
"Trains carry a lot more than just 2 trains can" What?
I had trouble understanding that part
You can't change your friends but you can change your friends.
I think he meant that trains can carry more weight than what two trains weigh
He meant trains carry a lot more than just 2 train cars
@@chriss2241 No, obviously trains can carry more weight than than themselves and can therefore carry INFINITE WEIGHT!
Finest of Norwegian engineering, imagine the simulations and calculatinons done before the build and move.
2:27 had a flash back to just cause 3 there
Same bro
awwwwww that game was so good
Completely random fact:
Since the moment Pluto was discovered and until the moment when it lost its status of a planet, this celestial body has not completed a single full revolution around the Sun.
While watching your video I always feel relaxed
A video about my Mother in Law. Nice!
Im actually more impressed that it took just 10 tugboats to move over a million tons
It’s in water but yea
I guess that Troll-A offshore oil rig was influenced by the same construction method used in Beryl-Alpha offshore oil rig (I think it was laid down in the 70's), although the height of B-Alpha was around 128 m and that's just the legs & foundation. Troll-A was like the mega version of B-Alpha.
According to Wikipedia Beryl-Alpha was indeed the first Condeep oil rig that was built, back in 1975 - and Troll A was the last one (so far) in 1995. A total of 14 were built and I believe all of them are still in operation today. The name Condeep is referring to «concrete deep water structure». The concept was invented by the civil engineer Olav Mo. His company «Offshore Concrete» patented the concept in 1972 and then the company «Norwegian Contractors» further developed the concept from 1973.
Due to being cheaper, floating rigs and underwater installations have been preferred since.
I remember watching this happen as a kid, there were a bunch of specials on Discovery and TLC, still so cool
When you're so early that RealLifeLore hadnt got a million subscribers yet.
He has 3.88 million
*views
I'm guessing this comment was confunded and travelled in time using Internet Explorer
I saw it on Nebula yesterday. Love it
I love Real Life Lore! They inspired my sci-fi/futurist channel!!
Impossible to imagine the scale of this project. Unbelievable, crazy, and mind-blowing
Why is everything “insane”? Are hyperbolic superlatives too challenging to Google?
This one buzzword will SHOCK you!
"We need to take this gas platform and push it somewhere else!"
Gas*
‘POOSH!’
Wendover productions: HOW DARE YOU
Me who created this video two years ago: HOW DARE YOU? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ConcerningReality Man you've got a nice Naval Mines series.
@@JuanMatteoReal Thanks! I work on naval mines in the navy. We use those videos as training for newer people.
Simon Whistler: how dare anybody?
@@mirzaahmed6589 Megaprojects!
Finally my guy is uploading
2300: How humanity moved the entire Moon.
It was kinda surreal for me when you mentioned the Kollsnes refinery. It's like 10 km away from where I live and I can see the torch from my living room.
Hang on: First you said that the rig was 80KM off shore, then you said it was 200KM from the coast, I think you meant 200KM from where it was built. Also you mispoke while talking about train cars, you really gotta review these more mate.
What is fascinating to me in this video is that we don't have one picture of this thing being built or transported. Although it was big hoopla in Norway as it was built and then it's move broadcasted live.
Child's drawing is all they could get... Epic!
i agree, would have loved to see real footage instead of having to google it...
USA: "We've penetrated this pocket and no gas came out."
Norway: "lol"
Troll Gas Field: "lol"
US is the world's largest producer of gas right now
Finally RealLifeLore makes videos every 2 days a bit better than 1 video per 2 weeks
5:49 the 84 seconds must be a mistake. According to my 3 am math, if the gas travels 80 km in lets say 80 seconds, that means it is traveling at 3600 km per hour, or just under Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound) that seems a bit excessive even for Norwegians. It is surely supposed to say 80 minutes which brings the speed down to 60 km per hour which is still wicked fast
Mach3
Very good job.
You should have credited this video to megaprojects, seems really weird you uploaded this a couple of weeks after his upload
I live in a seaside town and years ago Hundreds if massive heavy rocks that weigh about maybe 2 tonnes were delivered by cargo boats all the way from Norway. It’s amazing how though. The water here is very shallow and the boats managed to park and unload! All together there are probably almost 1000 rocks.
A burning question remains: How many Toyota Corollas does the platform weigh?
being from americans they will say: it weights x pick up trucks
There is a National Geographic documentary on this move. Definitely worth a watch.
Someone HAS TO go on the platform and watch this in the elevator on the way down.
This guys transitions into the ads are unmatched.
5:55 wait.. pumping the resources over 80kms in just 84seconds surely means it is being pumped and travelling fast than the speed of sound? Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔
thats 3 times the speed of sound
Yeah thats what i thought too,its weird
I was thinking the same thing and scrolling down the comments to check if I wasn’t crazy.
Thats either a mistake in the video or oil somehow being pumped at Mach 3 lol
@@DanielGarrido02 This video is full of mistakes...gas traveling faster than sound, trains “obviously” carrying more than two trains, and “usually these are built on-site, or they are assembled on-site.” Whoever runs this channel was asleep the day they made this lmao
> The towing operation was broadcasted on live Norwegian TV and became a spectacle of a time
> No footage from that broadcasts in video
”Norske Shell” could be translated to Norwegian Shell instead😁
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Noobs
They could've just teleported the object problem solved.
They could have just used the Wooden axe to move them to a new location
n00bs
What’s up my guy seen you like 1 week ago
Holy crap your name
teleport!? I’d have hired a Spacing Guild navigator and had it fold space.
Lol
Do more re-creating Countries plz I love them so much
Maybe a mistake?
80 km (0:55) or 200km (1:41) from the coast?
Maybe 200km from construction site?
And thanks for the video
200 km from construction site, 80 km from shore. At clear days you can see mountain ranges on shore
I like your vids and have been watching your vids for the past 4 years or so. Keep up the good work 👍
imagine converting the rig in to a prison after the oil was depleted.
you imagine you’re halfway down the lift and you suddenly realise you’ve forgotten your pen
BUT IT'S 200KM SIR!
Some random norwegian: DID I STUTTER?
Your channel is amazing! Keep up the good work!
I bet the engineers who built this platform used BRILLIANT or else it would not be possible
Very good delivery. Satisfied client. Will order more..
Imagine how much this must've cost.
This shows how goddamn worthy oil is
Gas*
And the price is one thing, but strategic value is another. Most of europe was supplied with gas from the soviet union when the gas field was discovered, so the Norwegian government and shell had a lot of preassure from the US and Nato to develope this gas field
Sisyphus: I had to move a big rock, you know?
modern engineers: hold my CASIO
When he said “longer than this entire RUclips video”, i just went to check and he’s right, the elevator takes a minute longer
When the workers are coming down, i bet you they will watch this video
You need to do a video on if a country has moved entirely due to invasions from an invader or invasions of the country which allowed it to change its location completely
finally something in my subscription feed, that isn't about the US election
I've seen this on TV of all things. That stuff still shows some interesting stuff now and then, y'know?
5000 years from now: Aliens helped them
2000 years after that: humans helped the aliens
As an offshore petroleum application scientist. I approve of this video. Keep up the good work