Blue-sea thinking

摘要

The Silver City, they call it; Aberdeen, built from granite and shining from the copious Scottish rain. But it is not silver that has made the city's fortune. It is oil.rnSitting on the northeast coast of Scotland and facing the North Sea, Aberdeen is the centre of the UK's oil industry, providing it with another nickname: the Dallas of the North. But while it forms the base for the crews heading backwards and forwards to the oil fields and the drilling rigs, it is also a centre for the specialised science and engineering that underpins the recovery of oil and gas from below the sea.