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 Piper Alpha oil platform on fire in the North Sea, off the coast of Aberdeen 08/07/1988. Get the latest Teesside Live breaking news on WhatsApp.

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 ...

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'.

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 ...