Here's how they extract clathrate

There's more than just pillars, coal, gas, and oil off the northern shores of Attland. King Yarl had banked on the seafloor to have more than scientifically discovered amounts of clathrate. King Yarl was the first one to discover and confirm that clathrates under seaflor do contain hydrocarbons, and off Attland's shores, they contain propanes, butanes, pentanes, hexanes and sometimes higher hydrocarbon alkanes.
The Oilbelt Corporation's platform looks like it is an oil drilling type, but it is actually a clathrate extraction platform (note the absence of the rig.) Clathrate is heated and processed to separate hydrocarbons, which are concentrated and stored to be offloaded into the company service tankers.

Brog Corporation's giant hi-tech recycling complex

This is the flagship plant of Brog Coproration's hi-tech waste processing complex in the company's own Brog City (which is also the largest -6 million strong - company town in the world). Nothing goes to waste on the island: the household waste, sewage, recycled materials get sorted out using the latest technologies and reprocessed into new cardboard, plastic, metals, even gold and vitamins.

The entrance to the lightweight organics reprocessing plant of the complex:



A plane is heading to land at the Brog City's Central Airport (there is also the industrial-military Southern and a cargo-transhipment Northern Airport). Note the Tokyo City symbol on the building at left. The City of Tokyo has several joint projects running at the complex.
This is no ordinary sand pile. It is a precious catalytic sand used and recycled frugally to treat sludge accumulated and concentrated from liquid waste:

Brog technology allows the plant to separate the stubborn solid mixtures of different recycled materials that are often made into park benches. Here the polymers are treated and separated.

Small river that roars (with industry)

This is where Balgrey River widens into its minidelta entering Yahalma River in Miklasgard. The delta in the late 19th century has been made into a Balgrahaven (Belgravia) port, an impressively huge river multi-modal port served by a cargo airport, hundred of railroad tracks, truck terminals, transshipment barge docks, and manufacturer's private docks - like auto assembly plants, chemical, aircraft, steel and other industries. Balgrahaven neighborhood's residential high rises are in the backdrop. These are modest test buildings for what is now called superblocks, or skyblocks, each a home to 4-10 thousand residents. The tower on the left is an apartment house -residential hotel. - Now I stand corrected - it is an automated parking tower, the photo below is the view of an interior.

New island for the megaport

The view of one of Kayokee's new landfilled islands for its ever-expanding megaport, looking east at Teyerstan (also Teyrastan, Toyrostan) across the 2 or 3 miles of Yahalma-Glada Bay. The industrial traffic pattern called for left-hand traffic for easier access to the port.

Just a peek at an industrial megaport

This is just a tip of an industrial iceberg - a view of only one of the three container ports of Kayokee Megaport which is about 20 miles long, starting almost downtown Miklasgard and reaching the southern end of Kayokee. There port has its own dedicated cargo airport, DHL and Fedex terminals. The port is also home to over 100 industries, and includes over 200 miles of rail tracks (basically its own industrial rail network). The port did lose local barge transhipment service, as well as auto and aerospace manufacturing operations to the smaller river port of Balgrahaven, 15 miles up the Yahalma River. In April of 2006 the 3 million-resident Kayokee (together with the 3-million Teyerstan (Teyrastan), 6-million Maunby and 2 million Karolinga) became absorbed into the Miklasgard megasupercity.

Brog Industries Structure

Brog Industries started back in 1930's as a concrete and tar manufacturer in Brog City. Preserving their independence from both royal and venture capitalists, the private company used their royal estate permission to expand, and soon developed one of the earliest petroleum production companies in North America. During the turmoil of the socialist rule 1948-1967, the company was nationalized.

Soon after the King Yarl's return and his restoration of the national political and economical system, Brog Industries was privatized, given a small rescue loan, and soon allowed to sell stock. The company together with the royal family's Koborg Corporation was the first to buy back the stock, streamline the operations into pure manufacturing, and by the year 2000 becoming a trillion-dollar, extremely profitable operation. The keiretsu-like company uses Attland's independent Intercontinental Bank, and, unlike Koborg Corporation's multi-corporate structure, is composed of these division-like entities:

• Waste Processing and Recycling
• Steel Works
• Specialty Metals
• Basic Chemicals
• Paints, Plastic and Polymers
• Refined Chemicals
• Heavy Machines
• Automotive
• Shipbuilding
• Aerospace Structures
• Fibers and Rubber
• Liquid Gas
• Cement and Glass
• Magaproject Construction
  

The headquarters are located in the city of Brog, in the building the company built wholly with its own manpower and materials. I visited the building, which looks like like the Communist monument to the Space Exploration, except it is extremely futuristic, and overhangs the coast.

The Koborg Corporation structure

The Koborg Corporation used to include Royal Broadcasting Service, Royal Oil Production and Retail, several pharmaceutical and food entities. The queen has sold these operations in the late 80's, applying the income from the sales to existing capital, bought back shares in the rest of her operation, restructuring it into this keiretsu-zaibatsu-like group of companies:

• The Koborg Bank (see brief history)- the keiretsu-like central bank of the Koborg Corporation (check out this post)
  
• Koborg Electric: manufactures electrical high-performance motors, generators, electrical controls, components, and lighting systems
• Koborg Fine Instruments: manufactures gauges, watches, dials, scientific intruments, sensors, scales, medical equipment, special metal alloys, electronics and avionics
• Koborg Photonics: manufactures photonic-optronic circuits, electronic and photonic computer parts, printers, smart displays, avionics
• Koborg Home Appliance - manufactures kitchen and laundry appliances
• Koborg Automotive - manufactures electric, hybrid, and electromuscle (bionic muscle) cars; power components for the Koborg-Brog automotive assembly venture; trucks, and bus and trolleybus components
• Koborg Turbomotors- manufactures jet engines, angle-flow turbojet engines, power control systems, UAVs, compact missiles
• Koborg Jewels - manufactures personal and industrial crystals, jewelry, processed natural and industrial diamonds;
  supplies Koborg Optics and Koborg Fine Instruments, and Koborg Photonics
  
• Koborg Optics - manufactures microphotonic components, fiber optics, lenses, optic systems, lumiactive materials and systems; supplies Koborg Fine Instruments, and Koborg Photonics

Koborg Electric, Optics, Photonics, and Jewels operations utilize extensively the inventions of King Yarl.

The Koborg Corporation is associated with Northern Insurance Association Cooperative, semi-private and semi-cooperative company that guarantees all insurance needs including medical and investment insurance to the Koborg Corporation itself and its employees.