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Survivors of the world's worst offshore oil disaster describe how the escaped the blazing Piper Alpha platform 25 years ago.
Documentary chronicling the tragic events on board the Piper Alpha oil rig in July 1988.
The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 shocked the world, and changed offshore safety management and legislation in the North Sea beyond recognition. Julian Turner charts the safety improvements that ...
The 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, which claimed the lives of 167 men, will be marked on Saturday. A series of explosions ripped through the North Sea platform, which was destroyed ...
Safety has vastly improved on North Sea oil and gas platforms since the deadly explosion on the Piper Alpha rig 25 years ago, but experts warn there is no room for complacency.
The Royal Air Force rescue team gazed at the hellish spectacle in front of them. They were alone in the middle of the North Sea, and one of the world’s largest oil platforms was consumed by ...
The BBC is developing a Piper Alpha disaster series about the tragic oil rig accident from STV Studios and James Wood.
SCARRED by the memories, Piper Alpha survivor Billy Clayton is never far from tears. Shaking, the brave grandad relived the world’s worst offshore oil disaster two decades on. Tomorrow is the ...
PIPER Alpha survivors have re-lived the horrors of the North Sea disaster in a harrowing TV documentary. The 1988 tragedy, which claimed 167 victims, remains the world’s deadliest offshore ...
The Piper Alpha explosion was the world's worst off-shore oil disaster. Only now, 20 years on, are the traumatised survivors finally able to tell the full horrifying story ...