Aberdeen, Scotland

Aberdeen operations are built around Marathon's three platforms and pipeline complex in the Brae area of the North Sea.

Aberdeen is located on the northeast coast of Scotland where the rivers Dee and Don reach the sea. Today, Aberdeen is Scotland's third largest city with a population of approximately 220,000. Aberdeen is built almost exclusively with granite. The most spectacular granite quarry was Rubislaw Quarry, which was at one time the largest manmade hole in Europe at around 400 feet deep. This quarry closed in 1972 and is now mostly full of water, but Aberdeen has continued to build around it, with Marathon House being one of the office blocks built around the old quarry. The proximity of the Grampian Mountains and their foothills makes hill walking and mountain biking popular leisure activities from Aberdeen.