A commemorative service will take place on July 6th at 1pm in Aberdeen’s Hazlehead Park, where Scotland’s Piper Alpha ...

BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the worst accident since oil started flowing from the North Sea.

The hellish disaster unfolded on the night of July 6, 1988, at the Piper Alpha offshore oil and natural gas platform in the North Sea around 190 kilometers (120 miles) from Aberdeen, Scotland.. In ...

6 July 1988: A series of explosions destroyed the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea. One hundred and sixty seven men died in the world's worst offshore oil disaster. An inquiry blamed the ...

DNV GL — Oil & Gas vice president Graham Bennett points out that there is an entire generation of people now working in oil and gas who were not born when Piper Alpha occurred more than 30 years ...

ON July 6, 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, the Piper Alpha oil platform caught fire. Some 165 men out of a crew of 226 died in the blaze.… ...

The explosions and fire that completely destroyed the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha and cost 167 workers their lives remains the world’s worst offshore oil disaster. Saturday, July 6, marks 25 ...

Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'.

The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led ...

Piper Alpha began production in 1976 around 120 miles north east of Aberdeen, a Scottish city known as one of the oil capitals of Europe. Twelve years after it opened, the rig collapsed following ...

BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the worst accident since oil started flowing from the North Sea. What happened ...