You Can Travel To North Sea’s Oil Platform as Tourists

You can imagine that you can travel to the Troll A platform in the North Sea without working in the oil and gas industry.  It cost you quite a lot of money 🙂

This is the news below.

Bored with palm-fringed beaches and turquoise seas? Then the gigantic oil platforms of the North Sea beckon. The first ever “rig-spotting” cruise just ended off the coast of Norway, and those onboard the four-day trip said it was jawdropping.

“I couldn’t believe that these big buildings could be made,” said passenger Kari Somme, 86, after seeing Statoil’s (STL.OL) Troll A platform – the heaviest structure ever moved by mankind – towering 200 meters (650 feet) above the surface of the sea.

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