Documentary: Troll A natural gas platform- Placed in the North Sea 1995

[@larsmhle7588]

I am actually working at this platform today. Still the biggest and most beautiful plattform in the North sea. It has become even bigger with 4 huge gas compressors and a third pipeline to the shore :)

[@jdelagado54]

Lars Mæhle - Awesome! Have you been all over the rig (seen all parts)?

[@sydreforged]

how in the hell do you get into this line of work? large industrial jobs like mining, forestry, and oil rigging interest me.

[@tagmeifurgay]

@@sydreforged google it

[@teacfan1080]

I remember watching this on Discovery, back when they actually had decent programming. Thanks for posting!

[@matsv201]

What happen to Discovery and MTV.. and why did they turn into the same chanel?

[@crownjules1]

@@matsv201 Same thing that's happened to practically every channel - reality TV programming is cheap to produce and popular.

[@matsv201]

@@crownjules1 I think it was driving a wider audience. It was like milk toast content that really nobody wanted, but everyone watched

[@larryhurley2314]

Yes I watched it on Discovery back in 1997 or early 98. When they actually had interesting shows. Unlike the the absolute shit they broadcast 24-7 now .

[@wenghiskhan3084]

I remember watching this on tv in 1998. This program is what got me into Discover Channel. Not so much anymore.

[@ltkreg]

I remember watching this on Christmas Eve with my now deceased father. Thank you so much for posting. Happy memories.

[@genesmith8627]

I remember seeing it when it first aired on Discovery. I recorded it on VHS. Then BOUGHT on VHS!! AMAZING Documentary!!! THANKS for sharing!!

[@juancarlosmartin4690]

This documentary is a Jem.!! Loved it since the first time I saw it many years ago. Almost 20 years or more.. Discovery channel really nailed back then when they use to put out documentary like this one.. Thanks for posting it.

[@Lucianrider]

One of the best documentaries on human engineering ability I have ever seen. I remember viewing this when it first was aired and I was just gob smacked at the engineering! The tunnel under the sea bed and the way they connected the pipes through what is in effect a huge cork is nothing but an absolute marvel of engineering!!

[@patrickmccullough989]

Remember seeing this many times on Discovery , always getting teary eyed at the end when Frank Chapman says goodbye. To work that hard on something, it becomes a part of you and you become a part of it. All these years later, still get tears in my eyes. It is too bad Discovery no longer makes, buys, or acquires programs like this. They have some vastly inferior junk now on Science channel which people laud because they don't remember when it was so much better. Sad indeed Mr. Chapman. We have all said goodbye to programs like this.

[@newhampshirelifestyle4233]

Discovery no longer promotes Oil & Gas technology because it is at odds with their Socialist Programming line-up.

[@Dontdoxme9268]

The commercials.... So much nostalgia

[@knucklesdeep88]

Thanks for posting J. Delgado. The oil and gas industry is impressive.

[@IanRubin2]

Oh, man, I haven't seen this documentary in a long time. Thank you for uploading it!

[@skycorrigan6511]

I love the old commercials!

[@Hypoksi]

90s commercials was the best parts.

[@460mudder]

Quality educational Discovery channel before it was ruined by a bunch of idiot, drama loving writers, producers, characters, and fans.

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

right on.

[@gaittr]

Why don't you understand the fact that we don't want to listen to dance music and hear Casey Kasem doing the announcement or narration?

[@ToaGatanuva]

My grandmother worked on that Platform. She had the VHS, and as a little kid, I watched the hell out of it. Too bad that a part of the intro is missing from the video

[@chipskylark5500]

What part is missing?

[@ToaGatanuva]

​@@chipskylark5500 The documentary opens with the helicopter riding to the platform, over the fjord to the location, for then to fly over it, concluding the establishing shot. It''s not much, and it doesn't hurt the documentary in any way, but it's noticeable for me since I've seen the entire thing.

[@unixnerd23]

Thanks for posting. My mates and I used to watch this sometimes if we'd had a few drinks, we all work in the ROV business. Used to laugh our heads off at the sound effects on the ROV bits :-)

[@xPantsMcGeex]

I had this video as a kid, every night I took a bath I would rig my plastic tugboats up to my makeshift gas platform and move it across the vast, open bathtub.

[@pocodfe]

Always been intrigued by this, when I first saw it on Discovery Channel long ago. In particular at the 50 minute mark, when they show how they pre-drilled the tunnel to access the pipes and how they plugged it, and flooded it...I mean that part is just really fascinating!

[@Lucianrider]

One of the most incredible parts of the video! Can you imagine being the guys drilling upwards into the sea bed to place the charges? How the hell did they know how much rock was there?? I would have been shitting myself....

[@pocodfe]

@@Lucianrider ... I know a little about it, as my father was a geotechnical engineer (sinkhole specialist), and he taught me a lot. Before anything is built, even a house, drilling is performed to test the ground the structure will rest on. I know a little about about drilling in water. For example, for bridges over water, they literally drill off a barge (in calmer water's like lakes or more inland ocean crossings), and they collect the samples. They are looking for any void (air pockets/sinkhole activity) and then the bedrock, hard clay, rock, etc. which is the safe spot to drill the pilings and columns to hold the structure. Now how they knew the soil and rock conditions, I'm not familiar with such depth structures, but they had to have performed some type of drilling to know if that ground was a safe spot to support such a massive structure and weight.

[@vinewood8295]

I first saw this on Discovery in like 2000, cool thanks for the upload. That area where they constructed the legs must've been really deep if they were able to sink them to float the platform on top...

[@gbear285]

34:38 Holst's Jupiter Theme- what I remember most from this documentary. It was so fitting considering the record-breaking feat taking place.

[@shinlanten]

This documentary is still amazing! Funny to see all them 90s commercials.

[@leonspringsboystv2025]

Back when "Troll" wasn't an internet term

[@adamf2402]

Facts

[@gunnara4026]

Impressing. Im proud bto be a Norwegian watching this.

[@beeguy360]

yeah? what part of the platform did you work on?

[@slitor]

+Sai Kiran No, because when people turn pride into some lunatic policy they loose perspective and starts destroying what they care about.

[@fadishour7360]

@@slitor go fuck yourself

[@jdelagado54]

Yes- the commercials are relentless here. That's why they invited DVR's to record television and fast forward through them!!

[@chrislowe6278]

great informative video, thanks

[@whitewolf..]

Here after Real Life Lore

[@jaycebronx2608]

Same here

[@BBR1223]

Same here

[@cullyx2913]

Brilliant documentary

[@TanaponThaweechuen]

the opening at 0:02 is such a perfect soundtrack ! anybody know what is the name of it?

[@rickyjsimons]

Ive never seen ads in the actual video

[@necko2529]

Wow... 1997 when the GPS was accurate within 12 feet. We've come a long way since!!!

[@Spurz1975]

1995

[@chipskylark5500]

Holy shit... Never seen this before. It's fucking enormous!! That's amazing!

[@vejet]

57:22 a literal "Goodbye my friend" moment 😥

[@koon753]

What's song name or sound track use in this documentary?

[@zerobudget8355]

Amazing what engineers can do

[@ricksadler797]

All those OLD commercials ,,,,,,,, wow

[@ProtoMan137]

0:10 They should have made the music a bit louder

[@vejet]

Crazy... I wonder why the Norwegians didn't use a steel truss tower structure like the Bullwinkle Platform or a Compliant Tower like Baldpate or Petronius? Why did they choice to use concrete instead? Was it better suited for the North Sea? My guess is no since the UK had built many steel truss tower supported oil rigs in the north sea. I suppose then that their industry was simply more suited for building large concrete structures rather than steel fabricated ones.

[@therealmarkturco]

It's the commercials for me.

[@stuartcandis1874]

Love it Great !!!!!!!!

[@wilsonbettis9461]

damn is the empire state building the only building used to compare height....

[@nathanielpillar8012]

If there is only an elevator in one of the legs, what is in the other legs?

[@Duhya]

Not much has changed in TV commercials, they even use the same damn songs and narrators.

[@siralexzwift6608]

sorry for the off topic but what's that soundtrack on the opening, THANKS.

[@ToaGatanuva]

I'd like to know as well

[@stuartcandis1874]

Love it great ! !!!!!!!ee

[@YesuhaIsLord]

A troll? Ain't building shit!

[@geirerlinggulbrandsen851]

Yes, mainstream TV is impossible to watch in the US. Only PBS and a few more are watchable. At the end of an avg american show you've only heard 4-5 sentences repeated ad nauseam. But surf's good in America. And theme parks!:)

[@SaltyPirate71]

+Geir Erling Gulbrandsen Discovery Channel and History Channel documentaries will give a paragraph of information, go to commercial, then repeat the previous paragraph plus one sentence and go to commercial break and repeat this so that in 60 minutes you have had two full paragraphs of info, and 30 minutes of brain damaging commercials. And to make it worse, the info that you do get is so politically slanted to the left as to be absurd. A documentary about a new ship will be highly glossed over in the engineering of the awesome structure and systems and all about how eco-friendly the damned thing is.

[@notaturtle561]

The music is too loud for the narrator.

[@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget]

There's literally nothing we can't accomplish if there's money to be made

[@slitor]

What?! They called the Supply Ships tugs? Outragous!

[@heuhen]

+slitor These ships in the video are build for multiple operation. so calling them tugs, is correct. It is just in the later years some of the supply ships are build with less tug capacity and more supply capacity, due to that it is fewer really big construction that need to be moved, the only offshore vessel left with huge tow capacity is anchor handling vessels, modern one can pull more than 350+ tons and they do also supply missions when they are not moving anchor.

[@turenolevin4672]

does shell own this platform. ? shell logo seen everywhere.

[@MrOperettalover]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A_platform

[@SlopedOtter]

That evacuation tape is sketchy looking, even the guy demonstrating had white knuckles!

[@DanDascalescu-dandv]

How much did the platform cost? Does the documentary specify?

[@TheSvisla]

Troll A had a value of 4,150 billion in 1991 (NOK)

[@Paxientas]

TheSvisla That seems a little inflated... that's about twice the value of the total assets of Royal Dutch Shell.

[@TheSvisla]

Troll A was built by Norwegian Contractors for Norske Shell, with base construction beginning in July 1991[4] at a cost of 4150 million NOK,[5][6] or approximately US$650,000,000 at the time. And that only the base

[@Paxientas]

Ah, I think you mixed up million and billion.

[@Paxientas]

Or I misinterpreted the comma in 4,150!

[@ricter29]

Wow

[@leonspringsboystv2025]

Back when Ford wasn't a piece of shit trying to sell you a smartphone.. actually putting emphasis on service. instead of pumping out crappy 2 year plastic cars

[@toribiopena3808]

Wow an interesting documental

[@leonspringsboystv2025]

Chrysler Sebring LMAO... biggest piece of junk ever put out by chrysler

[@bryce3334]

Remember when sprints looked like nokias

[@LCdrDerrick]

Do you really have to stand that huge amount of commercials in the States? That is a very mean kind of psychological terrorism! I even gave up to looking TV here in Europe, because of that shit...and we do only have half of it.

[@gaittr]

The poster did not place these commercials in there you freaking idiot. This was a direct recording from a television broadcast. Those are television commercials. If you don't like free programming then stop complaining and stop watching it and go away. You are a freaking idiot libtard who thinks years and you're entitled to free everything.

[@kenheppener6632]

Theirs more commercials than actual documentary....What a letdown!!

[@gaittr]

Then don't watch it. Are you serious you entitled libtard. You get free quality programming and you complain about a couple of commercials? Do you still demand that your mother wipes your behind after you're done pooping? You're ridiculous. Probably just a troll. Good program for you to come to

[@Joelontugs]

18:58 lol

[@ToaGatanuva]

41:20 This should be a meme

[@timazbill7746]

holy fuck 10 10 321 ads and lol sebring

[@khanmedia8945]

the one platform cost 3 billionnnnnnnnnnnnn

[@huswsimonbla]

31:48 smiley face

[@KyleStratacusDrewry]

8:55

[@slikkwon]

big deal.

[@gaittr]

Yes it is a big deal. A bigger deal than you will ever be involved with in your entire life. Have fun having your greatest accomplishment as being a troll. What a program for you to come and display who you are on. And how sad. How terribly sad that your life is so pathetic that this is your epitome of achievement