What will happen to Aberdeen when the oil runs out?

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 32,379
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    Ovalteenie wrote: »
    Is Scotland's third city doomed? What else has Aberdeen going for it apart from the oil industry? :confused:

    There will be many years of decomissioning rigs once the oil dries up. That's not going to happen for many years yet.
  • AvidianAvidian Posts: 6,043
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    Delete :blush:
  • Ian AberdonIan Aberdon Posts: 2,172
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    In what way doomed? There is a ton of house building & commercial developments going on in & around the city.

    It is constantly at or near top for quality of life, jobs, wages, prospects.

    I wouldn't dare be complacent, & Aberdeen has its problems like any other city. But right now & for the foreseeable, it looks fine?
  • Si_CreweSi_Crewe Posts: 40,202
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    In what way doomed? There is a ton of house building & commercial developments going on in & around the city.

    It is constantly at or near top for quality of life, jobs, wages, prospects.

    I think the point is that the vast majority that stuff might get flushed completely down the shitter without the oil industry there to support it.

    As has been said, though, regardless of whether energy comes from oil & gas or any other alternative, now that business infrastructure is in Aberdeen, chances are it'll just move across to whatever replaces oil and things will go on as usual.
  • anne_666anne_666 Posts: 72,891
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    Si_Crewe wrote: »
    I think the point is that the vast majority that stuff might get flushed completely down the shitter without the oil industry there to support it.

    As has been said, though, regardless of whether energy comes from oil & gas or any other alternative, now that business infrastructure is in Aberdeen, chances are it'll just move across to whatever replaces oil and things will go on as usual.

    The same as coal mining and other now defunct industries in a world wide market.
    Life goes on.
  • vosnevosne Posts: 14,131
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    Ovalteenie wrote: »
    Is Scotland's third city doomed? What else has Aberdeen going for it apart from the oil industry? :confused:

    Bugger all?
  • dan_blamiresdan_blamires Posts: 1,006
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    Si_Crewe wrote: »
    Given that most of the actual industry that's run from Aberdeen is already in a variety of remote parts of the world, I suspect it'll be a long while before anything changes significantly and, even when the oil does run out, I suspect that the companies who currently make their living from oil will have moved over to whatever the alternative turns out to be so, instead of oil, Companies like BP and Shell will, instead, be running their global operations for supplying hydrogen, battery chemicals or fuel-cell components from the same offices in Aberdeen.

    Unless of course it is more tax efficient to do thst elsewhere. Which it will be.
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    Si_Crewe wrote: »
    Well, assuming there's still any place in UK politics for fat-boy after September, I'd guess that the possibility of Aberdeen ending up as a ghost-town, and Scotland losing the revenue from all these companies, will be enough to readjust his moral compass at some point in the future.

    Be careful - the British press will be all over you for making personal comments about leading figures in the independence debate! (Unless they only care about people trash-talking figures in the debate who support the Union...)
  • 21stCenturyBoy21stCenturyBoy Posts: 44,493
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    The US will stop threatening to "liberate" it.
  • Si_CreweSi_Crewe Posts: 40,202
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    anne_666 wrote: »
    The same as coal mining and other now defunct industries in a world wide market.
    Life goes on.

    You're right but you're kind of missing the point.

    While it's true that the coal mines, themselves, and the local communities affiliated with them are pretty-much screwed, the companies born out of the old NCB are still around.
    Companies like Terex, Liebherr and LES are still around and still have the same offices (often in Aberdeen, ironically enough).

    The end of oil will certainly mean some restructuring of industry in Abz but it'll mostly be the businesses directly related to servicing the North Sea, the helicopter companies, the engineering companies, the freight companies etc, that suffer most.
    The main businesses are likely to still be around, with offices in Abz, servicing whatever markets overtake the oil & gas industry.
    Unless of course it is more tax efficient to do thst elsewhere. Which it will be.

    Well, that's a possibility that's just as likely to affect, say, London as Aberdeen.
    The difference is, businesses that don't have any particular reason to be based in London have nothing really keeping them there but the close-knit nature of the oil & gas industry means that it'd be a very brave move for the first couple of companies to take themselves away from Aberdeen and find themselves "out of the picture" even if there was a tax incentive to do so.

    Certainly, if all the companies got together and decided, en-masse, to move their offices to, say, South America, it could happen but it'd take an awfully big incentive and a lot of planning and trust.
  • CupidStunt2010CupidStunt2010 Posts: 803
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    Just frack the place dry
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    All the knocking shops will close...
  • BoselectaBoselecta Posts: 1,640
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    Follow Arab template of diversification...... bankroll top football clubs to success, Rangers/Celtic maybe?
  • TelevisionUserTelevisionUser Posts: 41,395
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    What will happen to Aberdeen when the oil runs out?

    This ----> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=detroit+derelict&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rLSgU_0OjtfsBq2IgMgI&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=587#q=detroit+dereliction&tbm=isch (but only if there's no effort at economic diversification)
  • Ian AberdonIan Aberdon Posts: 2,172
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    LOL! :D Aberdeen = Detroit??!!

    I think we are and will be just fine, but thanks for everyone's concern! :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 13
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    They'll have to use the grill or go back to using lard.
  • CravenHavenCravenHaven Posts: 13,953
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    swingaleg wrote: »
    Oh........I thought you meant for frying chips

    I was gong to suggest using lard

    :p
    They'll have to use the grill or go back to using lard.
    F - Lacks originality, must troll harder ;-)
  • benjaminibenjamini Posts: 32,066
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    What will happen to Aberdeen when the oil runs out?

    This ----> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=detroit+derelict&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rLSgU_0OjtfsBq2IgMgI&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=587#q=detroit+dereliction&tbm=isch (but only if there's no effort at economic diversification)

    That's a frightening picture. One of the problems facing and city or indeed country that becomes dependant on oil for its wealth is the lack of diversification , not to mention the corruption and the pyramid effect that results both in the busness and politics of the country.
    Norway is one of the few exceptions. IMO of course:D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,181
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    It will be pointless for Alec to come cap in hand to us, as we will be broke as well
  • valkayvalkay Posts: 15,726
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    ecckles wrote: »
    It will be pointless for Alec to come cap in hand to us, as we will be broke as well

    I f they get independence then they will be asking to reunite with England so that we can go on subsidising them.
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    valkay wrote: »
    I f they get independence then they will be asking to reunite with England so that we can go on subsidising them.

    Must try harder! The problem with seeking attention is that when the nonsense you post has been so thoroughly debunked, you just look desperate.
  • valkayvalkay Posts: 15,726
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    woot_whoo wrote: »
    Must try harder! The problem with seeking attention is that when the nonsense you post has been so thoroughly debunked, you just look desperate.

    So you don't have a proper answer then, just insults, very childish.
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    valkay wrote: »
    So you don't have a proper answer then, just insults, very childish.

    An answer to what? You didn't ask a question, you just posted an inaccurate, anti-Scottish canard (which is well past its sell-by date), presumably just to be provocative. :confused:
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