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Interesting to read this because as a kid I watched these rigs rise into the sky as they were built then floated out. They're building wind turbines in that shipyard now.


I can remember watching one of the huge jackets for the Forties field being floated past the Moray coast in '74 or so.

A lot of people from fishing communities end up working offshore - either on the rigs themselves or on support vessels.


Harland and Wolff?


Methil, which built Brent A and at least three other large platforms. As others have noted there were several other yards involved at that time, such was the size of the North Sea fields development effort. Some historical info here : http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1976/mar/...


Sounds like the old Highland Fabricators site at Nigg in Easter Ross, Scotland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-3652...


It could be Invergordon. I was there last summer and have seen quite some wind turbines ready to be dispatched for installation.




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