The Economist | How falling oil prices have affected Aberdeen The Economist WHEN the oil price collapsed in the late 1990s, so did the capital of Europe's oil-and-gas industry. Thousands of foreign workers had been flown to Aberdeen, on Scotland's north-east coast, to work on North Sea rigs. They left in droves and the local ... Independence would leave Scotland £7bn worse off, oil forecasts show North Sea oil giant - do not risk the UK's 'engineering legacy' |