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Hydrocarbon slump takes toll on Aberdeen

By 2016-04-08T00:00:00

Aberdeen city centre, Scotland

Source: Shutterstock/Paula Fisher

Mothballed rigs, as tall as skyscrapers and crusted brown with rust, crowd the hazy skyline of the Cromarty Firth, their ghostly silhouettes the most visible sign of a decade-long oil-boom-turned-bust.

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