The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men onboard the Piper Alpha platform around 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen on the night of July 6, 1988.

The Piper Alpha disaster had a huge impact on communities in the Northeast of Scotland and beyond. The series will tell this tragic story sensitively and comprehensively, drawing on new interviews and ...

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

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 to ...

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.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about the Piper Alpha disaster, one of the most catastrophic offshore oil incidents of all time and the worst in terms of lives lost. The drama ...

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, r Jump directly to the content Scottish Sun ...

Piper Alpha 25 years on: ... The clock was ticking towards tragedy when Dave attended his induction briefing, where staff boasted about how safe the rig was. ...

UK union Unite marked the Piper Alpha tragedy yesterday, 29 years on from the incident which killed 167 workers in the North Sea. “Unite stands in silence today to remember the 167 lives that ...

The 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster is being marked in Aberdeen. Journalist Jane Franchi was the first reporter to break the news of the oil rig explosion which killed 167 men.

When the names of the 167 men who perished in the Piper Alpha disaster are read aloud at the 30th anniversary memorial service, Geoff Bollands will recognise all too many of them. The former ...

Port Townsend author Brad Matsen's "Death and Oil" is a harrowing account of the 1988 Piper Alpha drilling-platform explosion, which killed 162 crewmen and rescuers and stands as the worst ...