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Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited (OPCAL) and began production in December 1976, [3] initially as an oil-only platform, but later converted to add gas production.
Introduction. Late in the evening of 06 July 1988, a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea. Engulfed in fire, over the next few hours most of the oil rig topside modules collapsed into the sea. 167 men died and many more were injured and traumatised.
Jun 29, 2024 · Piper Alpha disaster, explosion and sinking of the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea on July 6, 1988. The disaster killed 167 people. The discovery of North Sea oil and gas was a boon to Great Britain.
Jul 6, 2013 · On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea. In the space of two hours, 167 men lost their lives. It remains the world's worst...
Feb 19, 2020 · Unfortunately, the Piper Alpha disaster is just one instance of many large-scale safety failings in process-related sectors. Just like Piper Alpha, all other known process safety cases have resulted from a series of cumulative events leading to a seemingly unlikely and immensely damaging accident.
Jul 5, 2018 · Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited. It began production in 1976, but on July 6, 1988 it was...
Jul 9, 2013 · Documentary chronicling the tragic events that occurred in the North Sea on board the Piper Alpha rig in July 1988, in what was the world's deadliest offshore oil disaster. It was a cataclysm...
The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster: Volume 1 (PDF) The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster: Volume 2 (PDF) HSE Publications. The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster.
Sep 13, 2015 · One of the men who worked for the legendary oil well firefighter "Red" Adair tells of their long battle at the scene of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster.
Jul 6, 2018 · At the time of the disaster, Piper Alpha was one of the country’s largest oil and gas platform producing over 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day — around 10% of the UK’s total daily...
