Talk:Troll A platform

Photo Added
Added a photo from Wikicommons and removed photo requestGmac101 (talk) 07:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Merger
This article discusses the platform Troll A without even mentioning what platform in the Troll field it is discussing. I think that, instead of rewriting this and adding new links everywhere, it should be integrated into the already established Troll oil field article. The 'field article is a stub, but atleast it is linked to on oil production related pages, unlike this page.

Confusing
From Troll A platform:
 * The overall height of the platform is 472 meters and it weighs 656,000 tons.

From Troll oil field:
 * Total weight is 1.2 million tons, the total height is 472 meters

So is it 650,000 or 1.2 million tons?
 * --Grumpy444grumpy 08:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Another confusing point
The picture of the construction of the gravity base: It this really the construction of Troll A? Some wikipedia article about Statfjord A claims that it is the construction of that plattform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.157.38.33 (talk) 07:45, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Troll "A"
Why is it called Troll A when the first one imploded and sank during a submergence test? Shouldn't it be the Troll B? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.251.56 (talk) 07:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

It is called Troll A because it forms the hub for the Troll field collecting gas from Troll B & C and pumping it ashore. The platform you are thinking of that sank in the autumn of 1991 was intended for the Sleipner field Gmac101 (talk) 07:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Supersonic export?
Gas rises from 40 wells, and is exported through a number of pipes at better than 2,000 miles per hour (890 m/s). (emphasis added) Since that must involve some novel physics, technology, or interpretation of the referenced source, I suggest more detail from a less transient reference is appropriate if this claim is to be supported. I remember viewing a NGC documentary about Troll A; I don't recall it making any such statement, but I think I'd have found it noteworthy if it did. --129.230.244.1 (talk) 23:38, 15 December 2008 (UTC) (Dave)

Relevance?
Royal Dutch Shell is currently developing the first floating liquefied natural gas facility, which will be situated 200 km off the coast of Western Australia and is due for completion in around 2017. When it is finished, this will be the largest floating offshore facility. It will measure around 488 m long and 74 m wide, and when ballasted will weigh 600,000 tonnes.

How is this relevant to an article about Troll A? Bug (talk) 08:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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Worker capacity
Has anyone found a reference to how many workers the platform can accommodate? -- Dandv ( talk &#124; contribs ) 00:19, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Tallest? Heaviest?
"Built from reinforced concrete, as of 2014, it was the tallest structure that has ever been moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth"

"It is often incorrectly referenced as the heaviest object ever moved as well, but it is actually the second heaviest after another Condeep Oil platform the Gullfaks C"

"has the distinction of being the heaviest and second tallest (after the Petronius platform) structure ever moved by humankind"

I'm so confused. It's the tallest, but actually the second tallest, and it's incorrectly referred to as the heaviest but it's also the heaviest? Am I wordblind or is this all very contradictory? Mqrius (talk) 12:02, 6 April 2023 (UTC)