ABZ and Big Oil. 50 years of black gold in the Silver City
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- Author(s) Cresswell, Jeremy
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 279pp; illus
- Publisher Balmoral Group
- Place Published Aberdeen
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Sponsored and published by Balmoral Group Holdings Ltd, a longstanding participant business in the North Sea oil industry based on Aberdeen. Written by the energy specialist of Aberdeen's 'Press & Journal'. Provides a celebratory publication to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the oil exploration and drilling and associated support industries at Aberdeen. Chapters include: 'In the beginning, 1965-74'; 'Creating the boom, 1975-84'; 'Crash and recovery, 1985-94'; 'Over the peak, 1995-2004'; 'Decade of transition, 2005-14'; 'Looking to the future, 2015'. Also included are transcriptions of interviews with ten leading figures connected with the industry. Much about participating businesses, Shell, BP, BNOC, etc