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.
Coors was more fortunate than most U.S. brewers. Of the 1,568 breweries operating in 1910, only 750 reopened after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Although Adolph died in 1929 before Prohibition ended, he lived long enough to know his company would not only survive, but prosper.