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North Sea Oil

Britain first discovered gas in the North sea in 1965. Oil finds soon followed and by the early 1980s the UK was exporting more oil than it imported. Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an estimated half a million jobs were created by the industry over the decades. The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

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