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Gallery: The North-east oil industry in pictures

By Ryan Cryle
1974: The first North Sea oil platform, BP’s Graythorpe One, tilts and submerges.
1974: The first North Sea oil platform, BP’s Graythorpe One, tilts and submerges.

We’ve taken a look back through our archives and dug up these images of how the oil industry in the North-east has changed through the decades.

1983: Eddie Dodds from Cheshire had 10 years offshore experience, including North West Hutton.
1982: Neil Anderson, offshore installation manager, inspects the pipe end.
1975: some visitors taking it easy at the Oil Offshore exhibition.
1973: An oil worker on BP Sea Quest.
1977: Offshore Europe. A diving bell built and developed in America at a cost of over £1.25 million.
1982: Mr S Rennick of Blandford Offshore fits pipes in the gas compression room.
1975: Oil Offshore exhibition under canvas at the Bridge of Don, while lying off the coast is the drill barge Orca.
1977: Student Mhairi Johnston, top, and colleague Miriam Elias dwarfed by the massive Bruce anchor.
Mr K Foster checks the signal strength of messages coming from the oil rigs by the radio teleprinter service in October 1971.
1984: Workers on BP’s Forties Alpha production platform are joined by celebrities Noel Edmonds and Barbara Dickson.
1976: BP Forties’ FC platform with the giant crane barge Thor and a supporting supply vessel.
1983: standby vessel, Rig Master, anchored off one of the platforms in the BP Forties Field.
1974: The first North Sea oil platform, BP’s Graythorpe One, tilts and submerges.
1983: Bill Collie and Colin Selby on the Oil Field Brae ‘A’ Drilling Deck.
1992: Supply boats berthed in Aberdeen Harbour

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