Kvaerner is responsible for one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in history called âTroll Aâ. It is a gas production platform and the tallest structure ever moved by man relative to the earth. It has a gravity based structure (GBS), with a concrete substructure of 1,234 feet (376 m). The total height from the seabed to the tip of the flare is 1,579 feet (481 m), almost half a kilometer.
Or worried-ish. But rest assured that, unlike their peers up at Molson Coors in Canada, the approximately 2,800 employees at MillerCoors in Golden will continue to get their 864 free beers a year ... for now.
While GM has just two-thirds as many UAW members as in 2007, Ford has now brought back all of the factory jobs it eliminated during the recession. Ford built about 125,000 more vehicles in the U.S. last year than it did in 2007, despite having seven fewer plants. Ford had 50,703 U.S. hourly workers as of Feb. 1, according to a report from the UAW's Ford department. A GM spokesman said the company has about 50,300 U.S. hourly workers. Ten years ago, GM had about 21,000 more than Ford.