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Made in Germany | Boomtown - Aberdeen's got Oil Fever

3,103 views · Published 27 August 2008 · 4:49 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2008 · Entertainment

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North Sea oil has made the Scottish city of Aberdeen into a boomtown. Its fortunes rise and fall with the price of crude.

Drilling platforms spike up just of the coast. They are owned by major oil companies like BP, Shell and Total. In the city itself are some 900 companies that supply the oil industry. Every seventh Aberdeen works in an oil-related job. The companies here have learned how to cope with fluctuations in the industry. But with oil prices breaking one record after another at the moment, they can barely keep up. Supply ships are jammed up in the port and extraction is running at full-tilt, leaving the town hungry for workers. We went to Aberdeen to see what it's like. A report from Claudia Laszczak.

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